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New Unassisted Mt. Everest Speed Record Set By <em></em>Spanish Ultramarathoner Kilian JornetMt. Everest season is upon us, as climbers are flocking to the world’s tallest peak and trying to summit it before the spring window closes and the onset of monsoon season makes the summit unreachable. Many have reached the top already, although several mountaineers have died this year, including le...

This Is Why Kilian Jornet Did Not Return Emails YesterdaySo, while you’re warming a chair, carving the brain-pathway triangle from screen to keyboard to couch ever deeper, Catalan runner/climber/skier/mountain man Kilian Jornet was contemplating this line. I think that’s Jornet in the yellow, and steep skiing guide Vivian Bruchez in the blue, with Seb Mon...

Kilian Jornet, the world's best ultrarunner, has a new goal: running up Mt. Everest. Without supplemental oxygen. From an unnamed village well below the traditional base camp. Discuss. ...

How To Run Downhill: Advice From The World's Best Mountain Runner

At last! How to run downhill! While other so-called experts have brayed about the importance of likker and bendy ankles, this information comes from the world's most accomplished downhill runner, who has torn up and, more importantly, down 19,341-foot Kilimanjaro before lunch and is actually afra...

Is Booze A Performance-Enhancing Substance For Ultrarunners?

While a frosty beer or refreshing ethyl alcohol can certainly serve as motivation to hurry back, runners have been laboring under the limited view of liquor as solely a recovery drink. ...

Why Ultrarunning Is The Funniest Sport In The World

You know all that crap about learning more from losses than victories? From times when the train went off the rails rather than smartly pulling into the station? Whether that has a shred of validity or not, disasters make for great reading, so instead of talking with the medal-chested smiling win...