The world’stoughestmountain race

Last year, while on holiday in the south of France, I watched a night trail race from the comfort of a pavement café. In no rush to leave, I saw the whole shape of the race for maybe the first time ev

Back in the depths of January 2025, my run buddy Sharon and I decided to embark on an adventure: our first ultra. We juggled our diaries as well as requirements such as ‘not too far’, ‘not too hot’, ‘

Poet, lecturer and Mountain Leader Emily Zobel Marshall returns home for an epic adventure over the Welsh 3000s – the highest and most multi-storied mountains of Eryri

Wildly fluctuating temperatures, punishing verticality, brushes with mountain lions – the Grand Canyon’s Rim to Rim to Rim endurance run is not for the faint-hearted. Duncan Craig takes on the ‘big red ditch’

Sometimes you have to do things that scare you. At least, that’s what I kept telling myself ahead of the Dartmoor Discovery, a 32-mile, 899-yard ultramarathon with more than 4,000ft of elevation. And

Black Hill Road. Lap three. A biting headwind. My neck screaming. I glance up and see the same slope that’s already broken countless riders today. And as the lads around me clip out and walk, I dig in