Anne Gorringe’s article for Planetski.eu last summer about the Tor des Geants – an extreme 330km marathon in the Italian Alps – has won a top award.
The Italian State Tourist Board picked Anne for her piece on the Aosta Valley endurance race, which starts and ends in Courmayeur each September.
The race sees 500 athletes run from this pretty Italian town through the Aosta Valley on paths past the...
Endurance trail fans were fast off the starting blocks for entries to the latest edition of the Tor des Géants.
This most eagerly awaited race of the year, with a round-trip route totalling 330 km and a total climb of 24,000 metres, running right around the Valle d’Aosta regionand past the foot of the four Giants of the Alps:
Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn and the Gran Paradiso.
Race filled in 27...
THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST ENDURANCE TRAIL: TOR DES GEANTS
9th – 16th September 2012
The world’s toughest endurance trail in terms of altitude and length, the Tor Des Geants race, is back by popular demand for the third year running (pardon the pun) this year. Walk, run and race as fast as possible over an unbelievable distance of 330 kilometres, covering a total positive altitude distance of 24,000 metres.
Not...
The second edition of the Tour des Geants finished early this month with a closing ceremony, full of emotions and cheerfulness.
Accompanied by the applause of the winners, all the finishers, one by one, climbed the steps of the Jardin de l’Ange at Courmayeur before a large crowd. Everyone recognised that the feat of the winners was as exceptional as the other 300 runners who managed to cross the finish line of...
