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On Saturday 1 March at Les Diablerets, Switzerland Kilian Jornet Burgada and Laetitia Roux won the fourth stage of the Scarpa ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup. Sunday's Vertical Race was won by Jornet Burgada and Roux, while the overall Vertical...

Spanish skyrunning ultrarunner Kilian Jornet Burgada has been named the 2014 National Geographic People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year.

The third stage of the Scarpa ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2014 was won in Val Comelico, Italy, yesterday by Kilian Jornet Burgada and Laetitia Roux. The Spaniard Oriol Cardona Coll and Giulia Compagnoni won the Junior categories. In the...

On Saturday at Val de Bagnes (Verbier, Switzerland) Kilian Jornet Burgada and Laetitia Roux won the first stage of the Scarpa ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup. Sunday's Vertical Race was won by Roux and Matheo Jacquemoud.

The first stage of the Scarpa ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup 2014 starts today in Verbier-Val de Bagnes, Switzerland.

From 14/11/2014 to 31/01/2014 you can cast your vote online for the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year 2014. Nominees include Adam Ondra, Kilian Jornet Burgada, Raphael Slawinski and Ian Welsted.

Giulio Caresio analyses the visible and invisible aspects of an extraordinary achievement: the record-breaking ascent and descent of the Matterhorn in 2:52:02.

On Saturday 4 May the XIX Mezzalama Trophy was won by the Italians Manfred Reichegger, Damiano Lenzi and Matteo Eydallin. The women's competition was won by the Italians Laura Besseghini, Raffaella Rossi and Elena Nicolini. Lorenzo Scandroglio provides the report,...

On 17/02/2013 the Frenchmen Vivian Bruchez and Jonathan Charlet made the first descent of the Frigor Couloir on Petite Aiguille Verte in the Mont Blanc massif.

The Ski Mountaineering World Championships 2013 finished yesterday with the Relay race. The men's event was won by Switzerland ahead of Italy and France, while the Women's event was won by France ahead of Italy and Switzerland. The Vertical race...

Bon Mardion William and Laetitia Roux from France won the Individual race yesterday at the Ski Mountaineering World Championships 2013. Silver was won by teammates Matheo Jacquemoud and Axelle Mollaret, while bronze went to Spain's Kilian Jornet Burgada and Italy's...

The results of the first stage of the ISMF Scarpa World Cup 2013 which took place last weekend in Valle Aurina (South Tyrol, Italy).

On 23/11/2012 Vivian Bruchez and Kilian Jornet Burgada made the first ski descent of the Migot Spur located on Aiguille de Chardonnet in the Mont Blanc massif.

On 18 September Spanish ski mountaineer and sky runner Kilian Jornet Burgada ascended from Courmayeur to the summit of Mont Blanc via the famous Innominata Ridge (1000m, D+, V+, 60º) in 6 hours and 17 minutes. The Spaniard then raced...

Great mourning in the ski mountaineering world and that of the mountains in general: on Sunday 17/06/2012 the 41 year-old ski mountaineering champion Stephane Brosse died as a result of a cornice collapse on Aiguille Argentiere (Mont Blanc).

Lorenzo Scandroglio recounts the 2012 edition of Patrouille des Glaciers, the legendary ski mountaineering competition from Zermatt to Verbier which due to dangerous conditions was stopped short at Arolla.