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Dec 15, 2015
Emmie Collinge

The Restless Energy of Marco de Gasperi

Run the Alps’ Emmie Collinge describes her experiences meeting and running with the impressive Marco de Gasperi, who has developed some exciting new trail races in Valtellina, Italy. Raised on a diet of mountains and fresh air on the outskirts of neighboring Bormio, a town in Northern Italy near the Swiss border, 39-year-old Marco de

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Nov 26, 2015
Doug Mayer

Giving Thanks, 2015

It’s 6:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning and above my laptop’s screen, I can just now start to make out the outline of the Northern Presidentials, here in Randolph, the quirky little mountain town in Northern New Hampshire that’s my home for much of the year. On my mind is Thanksgiving… or, more accurately, thanks and giving.

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Monte Spluga
Nov 22, 2015
Emmie Collinge

Monte Spluga: A Well-Kept Secret Near the Swiss-Italian Border

Left turn. Right turn. Left turn. Right turn. The slow progress of your car journey up the mountain is backed only by the soundtrack of the driver’s foot moving from the accelerator to the brake pedal, a slight twang each time he lets off the brake. You soon tire of driving over mountain passes, particularly

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Nov 7, 2015
Doug Mayer

CMBM: The Club at the Heart of Trail Running in Chamonix

Thanks to Chloë Lanthier for her help with this interview, and to Maia Rauschenberg for the transcription. Over the last decade, Chamonix has become one of the world’s top locations for trail running. It makes sense. Long the world’s center for alpinism, thanks to its location at the base of Mont Blanc and the Aiguilles

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Oct 20, 2015
Doug Mayer

From Chamonix to Zermatt: Our 2016 Run the Alps Tours are Here!

We’ve just announced our 2016 tours! These last few months have been one of the busiest periods ever for Run the Alps. We wrapped up our most successful season, departing the trails of the Chamonix valley only when snow started to work its way down the flanks of Mont Blanc. Back here in the states, we spent the

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