Tag Archives: pierra menta

March 02

FRANCOIS D’HAENE 2022 CALENDAR: PIERRA MENTA, HARDROCK100, L’ECHAPPÉE BELLE AND DIAGONALE DES FOUS. 

FRANCOIS D’HAENE 2022 CALENDAR: PIERRA MENTA, HARDROCK100, L’ECHAPPÉE BELLE AND DIAGONALE DES FOUS. Our  MOUNTAIN RACING CALENDAR bring us today the latest news from Francois D’Haene who has made public his 2022 calendar as Kilian Jornet did some days ago. In Francois own words: “I don’t know why but I’ve received so many messages about my 2022 […]

February 23

KILIAN JORNET 2022 CALENDAR: PIERRA MENTA, ZEGAMA, HARDROCK100, SIERRE ZINAL & UTMB

KILIAN JORNET 2022 CALENDAR: PIERRA MENTA, ZEGAMA, HARDROCK100, SIERRE ZINAL & UTMB. Our  MOUNTAIN RACING CALENDAR bring us today the latest news from Kilian Jornet who has made public his 2022 calendar. In Kilian own words: “It looks like I will do some races this year…1 skimo race, 2 short distances, 2 long distances: Pierra Menta, Zegama, […]

March 14

PIERRA MENTA 2021-ISMF LONG DISTANCE WORLD CHAMPIONS: ITALY WINS BOTH FEMALE AND MALE CATEGORY.

The athletes of the Italian national team have won the last world title of the 2020/21 ISMF competitive season on the transalpine snows of Arêches-Beaufort, France. It has been a test bench of these new World Championships, as a result of the rediscovered collaboration between the ISMF and La Grande Course, and has represented a real marathon with 3400 metres of positive height […]

March 10

LA GRANDE COURSE: “READY FOR A WORLD PIERRA MENTA”

Arêches-Beaufort, the home of the celebrated Pierra Menta, is ready to host a “world” edition of this spectacular race. The scheduled date is next friday even though starting from today many teams are already in the area in order to inspect the course. As announced by the local organizing committee this year edition will take […]

December 02

LA GRANDE COURSE 2021 PIERRA MENTA, ADAMELLO SKI RAID & MEZZALAMA TROPHY. ALTITOY COMES BACK IN 2022.

After the cancellation of the 4th edition, the sport tour of the most prestigious Alpine and Pyrenean skimountaineering races is ready to restart with many interesting innovations. This season “La Grande Course” will be composed of Pierra Menta, Adamello Ski Raid and Mezzalama Trophy. The first great change concerns the executive board with the new […]

July 09

NEW RECORD FOR KILIAN JORNET IN BOB GRAHAM ROUND: 12H52

  Kilian Jornet has completed the Bob Graham Round with a new record in 12h53, the legendary route by the British fells with about 106km and 8.200 m of positive altitude beating last record owned by Billy Bland in 1982 in about 1h.   _____________________ . KILIAN JORNET BEATS BOB GRAHAM ROUND’S RECORD   After broken […]

March 20

Kilian Jornet officially confirms two month recovery after broken fibula at Pierra Menta, yet no additional surgery will be required.

  Kilian Jornet fell when racing at Pierra Menta last weekend and broke  his fibula. His team has officially confirmed today that will be out of action for at least two months and will miss the end of the ski season, although he won’t need surgery. Kilian was leading the race together with his teammate Jakob Hermann […]

March 11

Kilian Jornet & Alexis Sevennec take second at Pierra Menta after Lenzi/Eydallin victory. Laetitia Roux wins for 7th time, now with Emelie Forsberg.

 . The Pierra Menta 2017 was just completed today, with the iconic stage at the Grand Mont as the last of  four stages The usual human wall once again welcomed the peloton for the 32nd edition of the race in Arêches-Beaufort (France), The track covers every year a total of around  100k/D+10,000m rcing in pairs, […]