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Much like in the US, trail running and trail racing continues to grow and develop in the Alps. One of the most impressive new events is the Ultra Trail Verbier-St.Bernard, or TVSB, which is really three-races-in-one– a 111-km “X-Alpine” course, a 61-km “Traversée,” and a 29-km run between the villages of Liddes and Verbier. (The

As we head into 2015, and I look back on this past season of trail running in the Alps, it’s often the people who come to mind as much as the mountains and the trails. And, top among those people this year was someone who has run over 375 races in the last three decades, René Pletschet. By itself,

Warning: Trail running in the Alps can be infectious! We’re pleased to share this guest race report from Nate Moore, husband of Run the Alps’ Heddi Nieuwsma. We see more races with twenty-degree slopes in Nate’s future.  After a long hiatus since moving to Switzerland in 2012, I started trail running again about a year and a

As we look back on a great season trail running in the Alps, here’s part two of our interview with Adidas Ultra runner Brian Tinder, in which we talk about his second-place finish in Europe’s oldest mountain race, the Trail des Dents du Midi. The race takes place each September in the mountain town of Champéry, at one

Editor’s note: July and early August 2014 proved to be one of the wettest periods in Switzerland in more than sixty years. Views were far and few between, alas. Nonetheless, Run the Alps’ self-guided trail runners Walt and Melissa Bleser made the best of a cloudy situation. While there, they took part in one of