
Run the Alps Trip News, Skimo, New Partners, a Book and More

A trail runner’s paradise. Morning light over Soglio.
(Photo by Jan Geerk, courtesy of Switzerland Tourism. swiss-image.ch / Jan Geerk)
As always, private guided trips and self-guided trips are available, too!

Enthusiasm, much? Participants at the 2018 Pierra Menta receive just a little bit of moral support from onlookers. (Race courtesy photo.)


And…. they’re off. Racers depart Chamonix for the mountains in the Marathon du Mont-Blanc
*Pssst: Chamonix Featured in Trail Runner
Run the Alps’ Doug Mayer has just finished a feature article about the remarkable trail running scene here in Chamonix, unlike any other in the world. Look for it in next month’s Trail Runner magazine, along with some dramatic images from a variety of Chamonix-based photographers. These last two weeks, Doug interviewed nearly a dozen Chamonix-based runners, and took sixty pages of notes. He learned a lot along the way, including behind-the-scenes stories that will show up on Run the Alps, in his Trail Runner article and other articles to come.
*Run the Alps: Switzerland – the book
Some of you know that Run the Alps Ambassador Kim Strom, founder Doug Mayer, and friends Dan and Janine Patitucci, from Patitucci Photo have been hard at work on a book. Run the Alps Switzerland is being printed next month, and will be available in late spring in English, German, and French. Get more info here.
That’s the news from here.
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