Tag: International

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Tarawera 100K The UTWT series moved from Asia to Australasia (New Zealand) for the second race in 2015 in early February. Tarawera is a 100k point-to-point trail race on mostly single-track through native bush and fores...

Andes Infernal

At 17,800 feet, the Andes Infernal race in Chile, South America, is by far the highest race on the Sky Running calendar and the longest competitive event at such a sustained altitude anywhere on the planet. The 51k loop...

Hobbit 100K

Breathing deeply, I grabbed hold of jutting bedrock to steady myself as the large piece of talus I had stepped onto tipped and threatened to dump me back onto the switchback I had just climbed. I sucked water from my hyd...

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ULTRA TRAIL WORLD TOUR (UTWT) Many of you will have heard about the UTWT that was established in late 2013 with a series of races in 2014, but what is it all about? The concept is to bring some of the worlds most iconic...

Volcanic Ultra Trail 80k

Volcano Orsono sits brooding on the northern fringes of Chilean Patagonia. Glaciers hang preposterously from its upper, impenetrable flanks, occasionally calving off and trundling down the lower skirt into the surroundin...

Javadu Hills Ultra

Two hundred and sixty runners shuffled nervously in the half-light of dawn before the start of the inaugural Javadhu Hills Ultra (JHU) in a forest in Tamil Nadu, Southern India. It’s a remote location. The nearest city i...