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For all intents and purposes, trail running season is fading away in Chamonix, as it is for much of the Alps. It starts in early summer with the Mont Blanc Marathon races, and slowly builds toward UTMB’s many events at the close of August. Then, as the first snows appear on the peaks above town,

Trail Verbier St Bernard, TVSB, is one of the great trail races in the Alps. The event is held in the Valais canton of Switzerland near the Italian border.

This summer, Run the Alps was pleased to help Hillary Allen as she trail ran around Mont Blanc, getting a sense of the route in advance of supporting Colorado’s Zach Miller during the Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc. Here’s her story.  Have you ever been so lost in a moment, so lost in a space in

Running is especially wonderful when your daily agenda is to run through some of the most spectacular trails on the planet–the TMB.

At some time unknown, the 31km Alps trail race known as Sierre-Zinal slipped into my subconscious as a special event.