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Google ‘Europe’s hardest cycling climb’ and Monte Zoncolan is bound to show up within the first handful of search results. It’s quite the billing to have, and for any cyclist it’s hard to ignore the c

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the best kind of bike ride is one that takes you from A to B, and if you can’t do that – typically because you need to end up back where you started – a loo

When a race follows the route of the world’s longest downhill ski race – in reverse – you know the spectacular views will be hard-earned. Duncan Craig tackles the Alps’ fabled Inferno Half Marathon

When an invitation landed in Alice Barraclough’s inbox to cycle up Alpe d’Huez, she was grieving a miscarriage. And with every hairpin bend, she found herself processing her emotions in a way she wasn’t prepared for

To cycle up a mountain is to pedal into a world of paradoxes. Mountains are a playground and a torture chamber; a means of outdoor adventure and inner discovery; an opportunity for wonder, a guarantee

Shifting into the last cog on my cassette, my cadence slows to a grind. With 100km already on the clock, the 16% ramps of Injebreck Hill have turned every muscle fibre in my calves into little glowing