Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Tor des Geants

I have never even heard of this race before today but this makes any race in the US look like child's play. HOLY CRAP!

The Tor des Geants, held this year from Sept. 12 to 19, is a 200-mile race through the Italian Alps, with a couple dozen passes, rough and rocky trails, and nearly 80,000 feet of climbing. Beat (guy in the video from CA) finished the race in 132 hours - more than five days - on less than five hours of sleep. He didn't intend to try to convey the entire experience of the Tor des Geants, just touch the surface of what it might be like to barely sleep for five days and cross 25 steep passes in the Italian Alps.

Freakin NUTS!! I think this one might have to go on the bucket list.

No sleep 'til Courmayeur from Jill Homer on Vimeo.

3 comments:

  1. Insane. I love the part where they tell each other they look like sh*t.

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  2. I don't know, shad. That's kinda like finishing hardrock and then turning around and doing it again. Have you heard of Nolan's 14?...it's a lot closer than Italy.

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  3. Nolan is on the list already. I have climbed all of those mountains, now I just need to try and string them together.

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