Podcasts about Mont Blanc

In this episode of the Observatory Podcast, Scott and LaRae Wright sit down with Dr. Stormy Hill for a deeply personal conversation about aliveness, intimacy, sensuality, pleasure, and what it means to fully participate in your own life. Stormy shares the unexpected path that took her from medicine to occupational therapy and intimacy coaching, including her son's serious heart condition, the end of her marriage, and her discovery of Tantra and sacred sexuality as pathways toward embodiment, connection, and a more expansive understanding of intimacy.As Stormy approaches her 50th birthday, the conversation turns toward the second half of life, relationships, nervous-system patterns, what she calls “adaptive inertia,” and the ways we can unknowingly adapt to lives that make us smaller. She also shares her recent 85-mile hike around Mont Blanc, her return to writing poetry after nearly 25 years, and why she is shifting her measure of a meaningful life away from achievements and toward awe, creativity, receptivity, pleasure, and the question: what makes you feel most alive?Timestamps:[00:00:03] Welcome to The Observatory Podcast[00:00:18] Introducing Dr. Stormy Hill and the pursuit of aliveness[00:03:43] Expanding intimacy, pleasure, and sensuality beyond the bedroom[00:05:14] Approaching 50 and discovering the common thread of aliveness[00:07:46] Medicine, motherhood, and her son's rare heart condition[00:14:45] Tantra, sacred sexuality, embodiment, and the divine[00:19:18] Growth, the nervous system, and “adaptive inertia”[00:25:08] The second half of life, relationships, and creating what comes next[00:30:08] Turning 50, resilience, and hiking Mont Blanc[00:38:12] One long blink of a life and helping people feel more alive[00:40:02] Keeping score with the wrong scorecard[00:49:24] What makes you feel alive and the practice of intentional participation[00:52:05] Poetry, grief, and rediscovering creative expression[00:58:24] Letting go, receptivity, and making room for what comes next[01:03:29] Living now instead of waiting for laterNotable Quotes:“We are wired for growth, but we are also wired for pattern recognition.” - Dr. Stormy Hill [00:20:26]“We give this one long blink of an eye of a life if we're lucky, and how do we bring aliveness and pleasure and joy to it?” - Dr. Stormy Hill [00:38:14]“I was keeping score with the wrong scorecard.” - Dr. Stormy Hill [00:40:02]“What makes you feel most alive? What keeps you from feeling alive? And how about we do more of what makes us feel more alive?” - Dr. Stormy Hill [00:50:02]“You arrive in innocence, you lose your innocence, and then at a certain point in life you realize that you've been innocent all along.” - Scott Wright [00:57:40]“Nobody on their deathbed says they wish they worked more.” - Dr. Stormy Hill [01:03:29]Relevant Links:www.Instagram.com/docstormy1 — on IG for more on aliveness www.Drstormyschiller.com — for speaking inquiries www.Lovedeeplab.com — for intimacy coachingSubscribe to the podcast: Apple PodcastsProduced by NC Productions!

Carrer Major de 16:00h a 18:00h, el programa de les notícies més actuals del Camp de Tarragona, on participen les set emissores d'arreu del territori, Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, Altafulla Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, La Nova Ràdio, Ràdio La Selva del Camp, Ona La Torre i Ràdio L'Hospitalet de l'Infant. podcast recorded with enacast.com

Une seconde. En 2025, c'est ce qui a manqué à Sabine pour franchir une barrière horaire de l'UTMB.Arrivée aux Chapieux, au 52e kilomètre, elle manque la barrière horaire pour une seule seconde. Jean, engagé lui aussi, voit quelques heures plus tard sa propre aventure s'arrêter à son tour.Un an après, ils sont de retour à Chamonix. Mais cette fois, ils ont décidé de changer les règles : ils vivront cet UTMB ensemble, du premier au dernier kilomètre.Un mois avant le départ, je les retrouve à Annecy. Ils sont prêts, confiants, leur préparation les a rassurés et leur plan est clair. Ils nous racontent l'UTMB qu'ils s'apprêtent à courir, leurs attentes, leurs craintes, les erreurs qu'ils ne veulent pas reproduire et cette ligne d'arrivée qu'ils rêvent plus que jamais d'aller chercher.Puis le temps s'accélère.Un mois plus tard, changement de décor. Nous sommes à Chamonix, au lendemain de l'UTMB. Sabine et Jean se retrouvent une nouvelle fois face au micro de Course Épique.Entre ces deux conversations, il y a une course. Et tout ce qu'ils ne pouvaient pas prévoir.C'est le principe de COMEBACK : raconter une même aventure à deux moments radicalement différents, avant de la vivre puis juste après, lorsque les projections se confrontent au réel et que les mots n'ont forcément plus tout à fait le même poids.Pour Sabine, ce départ est déjà une victoire. Elle vit avec la maladie de Lyme et l'endométriose, deux maladies chroniques qui rendent son rapport au corps et à l'effort imprévisible. À celle à qui l'on avait annoncé que le sport serait compliqué, elle répond depuis des années par la course à pied, le trail et des défis toujours plus grands.À ses côtés depuis dix-huit ans, Jean prendra cette fois le départ avec un rôle particulier : être le guide de sa femme. Une nouvelle façon de courir l'UTMB, mais aussi de raconter leur couple, leur complémentarité et cette manière très personnelle qu'ils ont de se soutenir, de se pousser et d'avancer.Préparation, endurance, douleurs, barrières horaires, gestion de course, couple, handicap et performance : cet épisode nous plonge dans tout ce qui se joue avant, pendant et après près de 180 kilomètres autour du Mont-Blanc.Deux micros. Deux moments. Une même course. Et entre les deux, l'imprévisible.Cet épisode de Comeback est réalisé en collaboration avec HOKA, fidèle partenaire de Course Épique, merci à eux

Cada dia, de dilluns a divendres de 15h a 16h, t'apropem els millors temes de proximitat amb protagonistes quilòmetre zero d'arreu del Camp de Tarragona. Presentat per Adrià Tella, un programa que fan conjuntament Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, BXC Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, Ràdio La Selva, Ràdio l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, La Nova Ràdio de Reus i […] L'entrada Carrer Major | Programa sencer (30/09/2026) ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

Carrer Major. De 16:00h a 18:00h, el programa de les notícies més actuals del Camp de Tarragona, on participen les set emissores d'arreu del territori, Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, Altafulla Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, La Nova Ràdio, Ràdio La Selva del Camp, Ona La Torre i Ràdio L'Hospitalet de l'Infant. podcast recorded with enacast.com

Cada dia, de dilluns a divendres de 15h a 16h, t'apropem els millors temes de proximitat amb protagonistes quilòmetre zero d'arreu del Camp de Tarragona. Presentat per Adrià Tella, un programa que fan conjuntament Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, BXC Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, Ràdio La Selva, Ràdio l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, La Nova Ràdio de Reus i […] L'entrada Carrer Major | Programa sencer (29/09/2026) ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

Carrer Major de 16:00h a 18:00h, el programa de les notícies més actuals del Camp de Tarragona, on participen les set emissores d'arreu del territori, Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, Altafulla Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, La Nova Ràdio, Ràdio La Selva del Camp, Ona La Torre i Ràdio L'Hospitalet de l'Infant. podcast recorded with enacast.com

Cada dia, de dilluns a divendres de 15h a 16h, t'apropem els millors temes de proximitat amb protagonistes quilòmetre zero d'arreu del Camp de Tarragona. Presentat per Adrià Tella, un programa que fan conjuntament Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, BXC Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, Ràdio La Selva, Ràdio l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, La Nova Ràdio de Reus i […] L'entrada Carrer Major | Programa sencer (28/09/2026) ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

Une seconde. En 2025, c'est ce qui a manqué à Sabine pour franchir une barrière horaire de l'UTMB.Arrivée aux Chapieux, au 52e kilomètre, elle manque la barrière horaire pour une seule seconde. Jean, engagé lui aussi, voit quelques heures plus tard sa propre aventure s'arrêter à son tour.Un an après, ils sont de retour à Chamonix. Mais cette fois, ils ont décidé de changer les règles : ils vivront cet UTMB ensemble, du premier au dernier kilomètre.Un mois avant le départ, je les retrouve à Annecy. Ils sont prêts, confiants, leur préparation les a rassurés et leur plan est clair. Ils nous racontent l'UTMB qu'ils s'apprêtent à courir, leurs attentes, leurs craintes, les erreurs qu'ils ne veulent pas reproduire et cette ligne d'arrivée qu'ils rêvent plus que jamais d'aller chercher.Puis le temps s'accélère.Un mois plus tard, changement de décor. Nous sommes à Chamonix, au lendemain de l'UTMB. Sabine et Jean se retrouvent une nouvelle fois face au micro de Course Épique.Entre ces deux conversations, il y a une course. Et tout ce qu'ils ne pouvaient pas prévoir.C'est le principe de COMEBACK : raconter une même aventure à deux moments radicalement différents, avant de la vivre puis juste après, lorsque les projections se confrontent au réel et que les mots n'ont forcément plus tout à fait le même poids.Pour Sabine, ce départ est déjà une victoire. Elle vit avec la maladie de Lyme et l'endométriose, deux maladies chroniques qui rendent son rapport au corps et à l'effort imprévisible. À celle à qui l'on avait annoncé que le sport serait compliqué, elle répond depuis des années par la course à pied, le trail et des défis toujours plus grands.À ses côtés depuis dix-huit ans, Jean prendra cette fois le départ avec un rôle particulier : être le guide de sa femme. Une nouvelle façon de courir l'UTMB, mais aussi de raconter leur couple, leur complémentarité et cette manière très personnelle qu'ils ont de se soutenir, de se pousser et d'avancer.Préparation, endurance, douleurs, barrières horaires, gestion de course, couple, handicap et performance : cet épisode nous plonge dans tout ce qui se joue avant, pendant et après près de 180 kilomètres autour du Mont-Blanc.Deux micros. Deux moments. Une même course. Et entre les deux, l'imprévisible.Cet épisode de Comeback est réalisé en collaboration avec HOKA, fidèle partenaire de Course Épique, merci à eux

Felsstürze an der Zugspitze, Sperrungen am Mont Blanc und Warnungen am Matterhorn: In den Alpen wird das Gestein zunehmend instabil. Kristin Kielon aus der ARD-Klimaredaktion erklärt, welche Rolle der Klimawandel dabei spielt – und wie der Bergsport mit der wachsenden Gefahr umgehen kann

Hour 3 (09.24) Chargers voice Matt "Money" Smith remembers Lakers PA legend Lawrence Tanter. Plus, the NFL fines Kyle Juszczyk $14,926 for pretending to chug a beer. 8:05 Matt "Money" Smith, co-host of Petros & Money on AM 570 LA Sports and radio play-by-play voice of the Chargers, joins Tim on the loss of Lawrence Tanter. Tanter was the voice of Lakers home games from 1982 until his retirement this year. Then there's the $1,300 Montblanc pen. Who is actually buying these? 8:20 More with Money on the Chargers and Clippers. The NFL fined 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk $14,926 for pretending to chug a beer after a touchdown against the Dolphins, calling it an "offensive demonstration." His response: "And I don't even drink beer!" Also, the LAX People Mover is delayed again, now to early 2027. The project was supposed to open in 2023 and costs more than $3 billion. 8:35 Matt, a listener who won Chargers tickets, sent a thank-you: a box of Mario Lopez full-body flushable wipes. 8:50 Former Fox News producer Jennifer Eckhart has died at 36. She spent five years in a legal fight with former anchor Ed Henry, and she called it "exhaustive" and "retraumatizing." If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens to a customer's words between the research readout and the campaign launch? Usually they survive in meaning and die in language. Every review cycle sands off a little more of the emotion that made the insight worth having, until the market no longer recognizes itself in what comes back.In this episode of The Trending Communicator, Dan Nestle welcomes back Dr. Matt Wilkinson, founder and CEO of Strivenn and author of The Buyer in the Loop. Matt's answer is the grounded synthetic customer: an AI representation built from a company's own interviews, CRM data, sales transcripts, and social listening that stays with the work from inception to launch and can trace every recommendation back to the evidence behind it.From there, the conversation turns to why an "act as" prompt can't stand in for real customer knowledge, and to the book cover Matt tested on a synthetic panel and on LinkedIn at the same time. Matt is candid about where synthetic customers stumble, with a Montblanc pen and New Coke along the way, and he closes with how communicators can build personas for investors and even the lobby groups working against them. He also makes the case that all of this should send teams back to their real customers more often.Listen in and hear about...Why organizational gravity can't be fixed one department at a timeThe difference between a one-page persona, an "act as" prompt, and a grounded synthetic customerHow a synthetic panel and a LinkedIn poll split the same way on three book covers, then agreed on a fourthWhy the half-life of customer research is shrinking in the era of zero-click searchWhere synthetic customers break down, from temporal drift to pricing and emotionHow communicators can model investors, stakeholders, and opposition groups before a message goes outNotable Quotes from Matt"The ability to create stuff, everybody has it now, but the ability to understand your customer is one of the few things that really sets us apart." - Dr. Matt Wilkinson [06:05 → 06:54]"Does the customer really care that you've been in business 20 years? Yes, they want a reliable partner to work with, but actually they probably want to know, what have you actually done for the industry? What have you changed? What problems have you solved?" - Dr. Matt Wilkinson [13:20 → 13:52]"The thing about the grounding is it's twofold. One, that it is grounded in evidence, but secondly, it's grounded in your evidence. And that's where the real moat comes in." - Dr. Matt Wilkinson [29:53 → 30:33]"It gives marketers the ability to start pointing at evidence rather than their gut feelings, because gut feelings are really hard to defend." - Dr. Matt Wilkinson [31:22 → 32:03]"Why would you spend five, six, seven figures on customer insight when all you're going to do is turn it into a report, share it, have a couple of meetings about it and then forget it?" - Dr. Matt Wilkinson [44:05 → 44:24]"People spend hundreds of dollars on buying a Montblanc pen. It performs the same service as a Bic Biro that maybe costs a dollar... The difference is how it makes you feel and how other people might perceive you using it." - Dr. Matt Wilkinson [47:39 → 49:27]Resources and LinksDr. Matt WilkinsonStrivenndrmattwilkinson.aiLinkedInThe Buyer in the Loop: How Synthetic Customers Stop Your Buyer Disappearing Between Research and MarketMentioned in this episodeYou're the Top of the AI Sandwich - with Brian Piper and Matt WilkinsonJim MacLeod, designer of the book coverTimestamps[00:00] Why many hands make flat work in comms and marketing[02:54] Matt returns to the show[04:24] The fireworks lecture that doubled undergraduate chemistry recruitment[06:05] When anyone can create, understanding the customer is the edge[07:18] Research-backed messaging that falls flat in the market[09:13] Organizational gravity as a force of nature, not a department problem[10:20] Naming the problem, and why good strategy stalls inside the organization[10:58] Building synthetic customers from everything you know about your buyers[12:20] Carrying the customer from inception to launch, and weighing legal's edits[13:20] The heritage line: what customers actually want to hear about longevity[17:27] Why "act as" prompts fall short[18:56] The persona spectrum, from one-page profiles to grounded synthetic customers[20:35] The persona workshop flip charts nobody ever sees again[22:24] Using AI to build customer archetypes from data[25:46] Backing up messaging decisions with 30 qualitative interviews[28:34] What "grounded" means, and why it's a moat[32:30] Testing the book cover on a synthetic panel and on LinkedIn[39:48] Organizational gravity as Steven Pressfield's resistance[40:49] Grounding as onboarding for AI models[43:13] Zero-click search and the shrinking half-life of customer research[46:15] Where synthetic customers break: temporal drift and knowledge gaps[47:39] Why synthetic customers struggle with pricing[52:28] Can synthetic personas model emotion? New Coke and asking the wrong questions[57:02] Where communicators start: investors, stakeholders, and lobby groups as personas[59:00] Wrap-up About The Trending CommunicatorThe Trending Communicator is a podcast about the future of communications and marketing, hosted by Dan Nestle. Each episode is a conversation with a communicator, marketer, author, or technologist about how the work is changing and what that means for the people doing it. The show launched in 2020 as The Dan Nestle Show and has published more than 150 episodes.About the HostDan Nestle (Daniel Nestle) is a communications strategist with more than 25 years of experience, including 16 years in Japan. He is co-founder and Chief Product & Intelligence Officer of Lilypath, the company behind the patent-pending Authority Intelligence™ platform, and founder and Chief Curiosity Officer of Inquisitive Communications, a strategic advisory practice. He received the 2022 Arthur W. Page Society Page Up Innovation Award, was named a PRWeek Dashboard 25 AI Pioneer in 2023 and 2024, and was named one of Propel's 100 Most Influential PR Tech Leaders Worldwide in 2025.Connect with DanThe Trending Communicator: https://trendingcommunicator.comSubstack: https://trendingcommunicator.substack.comLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nestleLilypath: https://lilypath.comInquisitive Communications: https://be-inquisitive.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/trendingcommunicator Show notes for The Trending Communicator are co-created by Human Dan, Claude, and Fireflies. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Cada dia, de dilluns a divendres de 15h a 16h, t'apropem els millors temes de proximitat amb protagonistes quilòmetre zero d'arreu del Camp de Tarragona. Presentat per Adrià Tella, un programa que fan conjuntament Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, BXC Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, Ràdio La Selva, Ràdio l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, La Nova Ràdio de Reus i […] L'entrada Carrer Major | Programa sencer (25/09/2026) ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

Il y a quelques semaines, je recevais Julien Veysseyre dans le podcast À CÔTÉ DE MES POMPES pour parler d'un défi qui paraissait alors complètement hors norme : prendre le départ de l'UTMB – Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, l'une des courses de trail et d'ultra-trail les plus exigeantes au monde, avec ses 176 kilomètres et près de 10 000 mètres de dénivelé positif autour du Mont-Blanc, avec une prothèse après une amputation de la jambe droite sous le genou. Nous avions parlé de préparation physique et mentale, entraînement, matériel, prothèse, gestion de l'effort, alimentation, ravitaillements, douleurs, doutes et stratégie de course. Mais surtout d'un objectif historique : devenir le premier athlète amputé tibial à terminer l'UTMB. Et aujourd'hui, il n'est plus question de « si ». Julien l'a fait. Il a pris le départ à Chamonix. Il a traversé la nuit. Il a gravi les cols. Il a affronté la fatigue, les douleurs, les doutes et les difficultés liées à sa prothèse. Et après des heures d'effort sur les sentiers du Mont-Blanc… il est allé jusqu'à l'arrivée. Alors forcément, je voulais le retrouver pour ce débrief de son UTMB. Pas pour refaire sa préparation. Mais pour comprendre ce que représente réellement un ultra-trail de 176 kilomètres avec une prothèse : comment le corps réagit, comment on gère le matériel, comment fonctionne le mental lorsque la fatigue s'accumule, comment on traverse les moments de doute et surtout… ce qui se passe dans la tête lorsque l'on comprend que l'on va terminer. Quel a été le moment le plus difficile de son UTMB ? A-t-il pensé à abandonner ? Comment sa prothèse a-t-elle supporté plusieurs dizaines d'heures d'effort ? Comment gérer la douleur, les ravitaillements, la fatigue et le manque de sommeil ? Et surtout… qu'est-ce que l'on ressent lorsque l'on franchit la ligne d'arrivée de l'UTMB à Chamonix après avoir repoussé ses propres limites ? Aujourd'hui, retour sur cette aventure exceptionnelle avec Julien Veysseyre : son UTMB, son ultra-trail, ses galères, son mental, sa prothèse et cette arrivée à Chamonix qu'il n'oubliera probablement jamais. Instagram Julien : https://www.instagram.com/julien.veysseyre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Xi Jinping has arrived in Washington for a three-day state visit and was met by Donald Trump in a rare planeside welcome. As President Xi touched down, the US treasury secretary announced that a bilateral trade truce has been extended. Also, the US-backed group, known as the Board of Peace, has presented a partial plan for reconstruction in Gaza, despite the lack of progress in the peace agreement between Israel and Hamas. An AI agent developed by OpenAI hacked Australia's government health website earlier this year, without the company's knowledge. Meta has announced a new model of audio-only smart glasses. Britain has expanded its defence into space, calling it the next battleground. An ancient wall discovered beneath Paris has been described as a “major breakthrough” in archaeology there. France imposes restrictions on the "wrong type" of hikers visiting Mont Blanc and is bringing an iced coffee to a job interview acceptable or unprofessional?(Photo: US President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Credit: EPA/Shutterstock)Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.ukThe Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment.

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast is flabbergasted by EuroSki. Donate to my brain transplant fund to make me more smarter:WhoIain Martin, founder and host of UK-based The Ski Podcast. YouTube here. This is Iain's second appearance on The Storm:Interview dateSeptember 24, 2026Why I interviewed himIf, like me, you're a U.S. American SnoSportSkier, you may find European skiing more than a little baffling. More than 4,000 ski areas spread over dozens of countries with their dozens of languages. Trams and gondolas pop skyward from every other corner in Switzerland or the Pyrenees or Slovenia, as numerous as the strip-mall vape shops and Jesus-Knows-You're-Watching-Porn billboards defecating all over America's roads. The trail markings in Europe are all different colors. Why is no one skiing off the groomers? Who stole all the trees? Why is every ski lift either a tram that looks CGI'd to transport Storm Troopers to a fictional Star Wars Cloud City or a T-bar that looks as though it was hammered together by Yohan in between sheep shearings? Why is the food good and the alcohol cheap? Why do lift tickets not cost more than a semester's tuition at Cornell? And, most baffling of all as we contemplate the growing presence of EuroSki on U.S.-based multimountain passes, why is every ski resort actually 10 or 15 or 100 different ski areas stapled together as the Valley of Grand Domaine de Les Skis?I wish I could be more helpful in answering these questions. So far, I have not been very helpful. I felt like I could get away with just pointing and laughing as Vail and Alterra added a handful of big-time European ski resorts to their rosters, but the numbers have rapidly spiraled: check out the number of Euro ski areas that have joined Epic, Ikon, and Indy since 2018:At first I tried to keep up, but I just sort of surrendered after 2025. I did manage write-ups of Epic Pass additions in Austria, and new Ikon partners in Italy and France, but I never got past more than cursory acknowledgements of Indy's massive haul of Euro partners from Turkey up through the Alps core to Scotland. And I thought, “OK how many gigantic resorts can they have over there it's gotta stop soon right?” But they just kept coming like kaijū in Pacific Rim. The pass-by-pass totals headed into winter 2026-27 are shocking:Here's a country-by-country breakdown that's a bit easier to read:And here's the detailed roster - not all the lifts are filled in because shoot me:This chart is the European equivalent of American college football rankings. It makes no sense, but it must be fun because so many people do it, right?I tried to make a map but it sorta sucks so I'm going to keep trying. I did use the map as a visual aide in the podcast, which is also and always available in audio-only. But if you want to watch above or on YouTube, our conversation will make marginally more sense as I scroll around beneath Iain's narrative.TranscriptsThere are two transcripts. Both are generated by robots. Both are helpful and defective in their own unique ways. I do not proofread either of them.Transcript 1: Click the “transcript” button at the top of this article. You can only see this transcript on a computer. Because I don't know why exactly but everything is getting better and dumber all at once it seems. Anyway, this is the transcript that the robots create when I upload the podcast to the internet. The cool thing about it is that you can click on any block of text and the audio will teleport there instantly. The uncool thing about this transcript is that it does not indicate who is talking at any given moment. Transcript 2: You can read this below. This is the transcript that Zoom creates as we record the podcast. The cool thing about this transcript is that it indicates who is talking at any given moment. The uncool thing about this transcript is that the timestamps do not match the audio. Also, you cannot click on this text to move to the associated point in the audio.ZoomStuart Winchester: My guest today is the founder and host of The Ski Podcast, a UK-based show that just published its 327th episode.00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:56.000Stuart Winchester: He's also a freelance journalist writing for national and specialized press and the owner of a digital marketing consultancy for snow sports. Ian Martin is my guest. He is a good friend of the storm. He has been on the show before and he is here today to help us make sense of Europe. Ian, how you doing today?00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:02.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I am really well, Stuart. It's really nice to see you, and thank you for inviting me onto the show.00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:07.000Stuart Winchester: Before we get started, what do you got lined up for this winter? When do you start skiing?00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:23.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: My personal first trip will be out to Les Des Alpes ski resort in France, which I'll be doing in early December. But I will actually be skiing not next weekend, but the one after in one of our indoor snow slopes.00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: in the UK. I'll be skiing in the snowy center, Manchester, so I'll get to get my skis on.00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, cool.00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:40.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, that'll be a lot of fun. Yeah, we have the one right over in New Jersey. I was supposed to go a couple of… a couple weeks ago, but I… something came up, and I wasn't able to make it. Alright, so Ian, let me set this up for the listeners.00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:42.000Stuart Winchester: And, and…00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:54.000Stuart Winchester: as a baseline for what we're dealing with here. So, US-based passes, meaning Epic, Icon, and Indy. There's also one on Mountain Collective, but it overlaps with… there's two on Mountain Collective that overlap with Icon, so I'.00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:59.000Stuart Winchester: So they have added a total of 61 destinations.00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:00.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Mm-hmm.00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.000Stuart Winchester: in 14 European countries.00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.000Stuart Winchester: 13 of those are on Epic.00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.000Stuart Winchester: Nine are on icon.00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:18.000Stuart Winchester: 39 are on Indy. Uh, so… some of those are unlimited on Epic, some you get 5 days, some you get 7. Icon's a pretty standard 7 days, or 5 days, even with the base pass. Indy is 2 days at each.00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, 20 of those destinations are in Austria.00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:31.000Stuart Winchester: 12 are in Switzerland. Uh, 8 are in France, and they're all over the place, but those are the countries with the most. So let me… I wanna actually…00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:33.000Stuart Winchester: Share on my screen.00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:38.000Stuart Winchester: a map that I made that could help us as a little guide, although it's not a…00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:42.000Stuart Winchester: It's not a great map, but I will…00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, okay. Can you, can you see the map?00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:51.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I… can see the map, yes.00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:52.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, yeah, I couldn't figure out how to make the…00:09:52.000 --> 00:10:04.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, let me just explain this at a high level. So, I couldn't figure out how to make the text smaller, it's very much a work in progress, but, uh, blue is, uh, the names of the ski areas are by country.00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:19.000Stuart Winchester: And the names of the icons are bypassed. So when you zoom down to Austria, it's Epic, Epic, Indy. Uh, Indy's red, Icon's yellow, uh, Epic is blue. This is one where it really helps to watch the video. If not, we'll explain it, and you don't have to.00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:34.000Stuart Winchester: be watching to understand everything. So, uh, looking at this, Ian, and putting aside my, uh, crappy map design skills, and looking at the full of Europe, from above, from space, as we can do in the future here, uh, where do you even start?00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:53.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Well, firstly, I've got to congratulate you on your data. It's just amazing. When you read out all of the different resorts, and the number of countries, and the number of resorts in each country, I've got one of your spreadsheets printed out here, and it's already changed since then. So, staying up to date the whole time is really quite incredible.00:10:53.000 --> 00:11:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: how you manage… how you manage to do that. Um, it is, uh, amazing. In… in respect of the map, there's obviously a lot of ski areas on there, and probably this is going to be better for someone as a research tool.00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:55.000Stuart Winchester: Yep.00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:15.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Now, you mentioned that there are 61 countries in total, 61 ski areas in total that are covered on those different passes.00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:12.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And I was thinking about…00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:34.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: what is the best way to kind of go into getting a sense for maybe which ones you should visit? Obviously, it's going to be different for everybody, depending on what kind of pass they have, and I know some people have more than one pass, but I thought that maybe a useful way to do it might be to think of.00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:37.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Let's say the hero trip.00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Then maybe somewhere you might go.00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:56.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: for a week, and then somewhere that you might visit if you were… if you were touring, or possibly if you're over for work, and you happen to be roughly in that area to give people a sense of, you know, where it might be worth doing a little side trip to while they were doing that.00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:56.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:03.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: So if you are happy with that structure, I could work from that. Okay, cool.00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:01.000Stuart Winchester: I love it.00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.000Stuart Winchester: Full speed ahead. Let's do it.00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Okay, cool. So, I think…00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:26.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: We've seen more Americans coming over to Europe over the last few years, and that is to do with these. That is to do with the passes. No, it's a pleasure. I mean, I talk to everybody when I'm on a chairlift or in a gondola, and if I hear someone who's from the States or maybe from Canada, I'm always interested to know, you know, why they've come over, and predominantly it's because.00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:12.000Stuart Winchester: Sorry.00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:22.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:26.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:46.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: they've got the passes. And, you know, I spent a lot of time in Chamonix last winter, and evidently you get a lot of people in Chamonix. Chamonix is one of the ones on the Icon Pass, I believe, as is Zermatt. Now, Chamonix and Zermatt are two amazing destinations. They really are fantastic. You can see them, actually, on the map that you've got in the video now.00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:32.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:46.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:54.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: They're quite close to each other. They're probably about two and a half hours by car apart. You could fly into Geneva for both of them.00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:51.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm, okay.00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:55.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:12:54.000 --> 00:13:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: They are fantastic resorts, fantastic destinations. They're my two favorites in Europe.00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:01.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:02.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:20.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But they're not necessarily going to be suitable for everyone. And the reason I say that is Chamonix is incredible. It's in the middle of a very dramatic valley. You have Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe, at 4,800 meters on one side. You can take the Aguille de Midi.00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:21.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:35.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Which is the lift that goes up to 3,800 roughly meters. And ski the Valley Blanche from there. Lots of people will have, you know, heard of that very famous off-piste run. It's incredible just to go up to the Aguirre de Midi.00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:31.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:49.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But in terms of the ski areas itself, they're very disparate. They're not connected, uh, in the same way as we might come onto the Three Valleys, uh, you know, shortly. So…00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:42.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:13:49.000 --> 00:14:00.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you've got to put in a bit of legwork if you're going to go to Chamonix. The connections between them generally involve getting a bus, and even if you're staying right in the center of town, you've got to get a bus.00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:52.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: or maybe a train from one end of the valley to ski the five different areas that you have in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. And I think…00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:03.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And I'm not 100%, I'm not the expert on the icon passes, but…00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:11.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:26.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The Icon Pass only covers the lifts that are in that area. There's also a couple of areas which are included on your map there, actually, Megeve and Les Contamines. You can get a lift ticket in Chamonix when I stay there that covers all of those.00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:21.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:29.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And you can ski over there as well.00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:48.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, so Mijeve, I'm sorry to interrupt, but Mijeve has been added to the Icon Pass, but it took me so long to sort out even what that meant when they said Mijeve, and even Icon Pass themselves didn't seem to know. We'll get to that mess in a little bit, but Mijeve is on the Icon Pass, uh, you know, along with Shamani, and those are separate buckets of days.00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh so.00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:32.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yep.00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.000Stuart Winchester: Then, like in Tammany, which is part of Mijav, is also on Indy.00:14:52.000 --> 00:15:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, exactly. Megeve isn't really part of Chamonix, but it is covered on that very big pass that you can buy. My point being really that Chamonix is fantastic. It's an amazing town. It has an incredible history.00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:21.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's where the first Winter Olympic Games are in 1924. You can get really close to, uh, Mont Blanc. You could ski the Vallee Blanche. There are lots and lots of options for, uh, high mountain skiing, but for a more recreational skier.00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:27.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it's perhaps not as good. If we look at Zermatt, another one, yes, yep.00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:39.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, so let me pause one moment on Chamonix first. So, I want to point out, the Icon Pass, for whatever reason, does not cover the Algo de Midi, or whatever, I'm sure I pronounced it wrong, the big tram. How important is it to just pony up, buy that tram ride anyway?00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:35.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yes, okay.00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, I mean, we had… we stayed out there for 2 months last winter, and we had lots of friends come to visit us, and with all of them.00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:44.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:56.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: we recommended that you go up there. It really is something quite special, being so high, so close to.00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Mont Blanc itself, but also just for the type of visitors we had, who weren't really expert skiers, to get an insight into the high mountain, because you do see skiers who are heading off down the Valley Blanche, and the Valley Blanche is a relatively accessible off-piste run with a guide.00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:07.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: but other skiers who are doing much more hardcore stuff, or climbers who are up there, who are practicing their mountaineering skills. And if you go up the Aguirre de Midi, you get an insight to all of that. I mean, I met some of your American friends who were over, who were.00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:20.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:46.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Really going for it, going down the Cosmic. When I met them, going up with some friends to the Aguirre-Midi, they were on their second ascent of the day. They'd already gone up, done the Valley Blanche, come back up, and then they were on their way down Cosmic to stay in a refuge for the night.00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:36.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:41.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.000Stuart Winchester: Of course, yeah.00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:51.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I really would recommend it. And yes, it is expensive.00:16:51.000 --> 00:17:03.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it could even be worth just buying that Montblanc Unlimited ticket in advance, because it's dynamic pricing. It's one of those things where if you buy it in advance, it's less expensive than buying it on the day.00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm. And Mont Blanc, just for my listeners, is, I believe, the tallest mountain in Europe.00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, highest mountain in Western Europe. I think it's 4,810 meters.00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, okay.00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:17.000Stuart Winchester: All right, so over to Zermatt.00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Zermatt, I worked a season there as well. Absolutely beautiful place. Zermatt Matterhorn, as it's known. The Matterhorn is the standout attraction. It is just an incredible looking mountain.00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:27.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The village itself, in my opinion, very pretty. Lots of traditional chalets, traditional buildings.00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:39.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:55.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: they have controlled development of it. It's not full of skyscrapers. Without going into the details, there was a proposal to build, you know, one recently that really got it dampened down pretty quickly.00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:02.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: You can only get there by train. It's a car-free resort, which adds to the charm as well.00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:02.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:12.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: really, I would say, if… the only negatives are that it's quite expensive. It is one of the most expensive destinations in Europe.00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: There are a lot of, uh, visitors, a bit like Chamonix, who go there not necessarily to ski, but because they want to go and see the Matterhorn, in the same way that you could go up the Agua de Midi in Chamonix. There's a Gornergrat, uh, cog railway.00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:27.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:46.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: which will take you up, uh, to a fantastic view looking over, uh, the Matterhorn. So, I guess you're competing a little bit with the non-skiers. The ski area itself is better connected than Chamonix. It goes up high. You've also got lifts of skiing up to 3,800 meters.00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:43.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:49.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: at the Klein Matterhorn area.00:18:49.000 --> 00:19:03.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: typically they have summer skiing there as well. It's actually closed this summer for a little while because of the weather, but, you know, it's so high, and because of the glacier, they can offer skiing all year round. So, I really do love Zermatt.00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:56.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:05.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The only negative would be…00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:16.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it's expensive, you know, you just gotta face up to that fact if you want to go there, but it has a cachet and a feel to it that I just, uh, love.00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:11.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:34.000Stuart Winchester: And one thing this map doesn't show is it does interconnect with Turbinia, which is now on Icon Pass, but separate days. So once you cross, if you use the day of Zermatt, even if it's the same day, you cross into Turbinia, you're using another Icon Pass day. It doesn't really matter for most Americans who are visiting anyway.00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:39.000Stuart Winchester: But what do you think about Slovenia? Is it worth it to pop over there?00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, well, interesting you should mention that. So I picked Chamonix and Zermatt as the first two because they are the most well-known.00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:44.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:19:47.000 --> 00:20:02.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But it's not strictly necessary to go to those two places and base yourself there. And you mentioned that, uh, you know, Cervinia is on… did you… did you say Cervinia is on… sorry, which pass again?00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:05.000Stuart Winchester: So, it's on ICON, and the reason I didn't have it…00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah. Okay.00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:12.000Stuart Winchester: called out. It's under Valle de Oesta, Italy, so that includes, uh, Pila, it includes, uh…00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yep.00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:10.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yep.00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:19.000Stuart Winchester: Slovenia, it includes Cormier, it includes some other ones, but I made the map fast.00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yep.00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:35.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, Stuart, you are… you are very well, uh, informed. You're right. I mean, you can see it on the map that we're looking at below us. You can get from Chamonix to Courmayeur very easily through the Mont Blanc tunnel. It's actually a 22 kilometer tunnel, and we skied over in Courmayeur while we were there. Lots of.00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:24.000Stuart Winchester: Yep.00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:25.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:29.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:30.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:33.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, wow.00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:36.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:50.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Chamonix, people who are based in Chamonix do go over there, because, uh, although the ski area is limited, there are more trees over there, you know, on a bad weather day, it's a really good place to ski, and it's included on the Mont Blanc Unlimited Pass. And Courmayeur is right at the top.00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:39.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:44.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:49.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:59.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: of the Aosta Valley. So where that little yellow, uh, icon is, underneath where it says Val de Aosta, is Courmayeur.00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:53.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:58.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:00.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:09.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But the Cormier… if I understand it correctly, then, all of the Aosta Valley resorts are included on the Icon Pass. So, as you say, Cormier… Cormier…00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:07.000Stuart Winchester: Correct.00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:26.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's quite a shishi kind of resort. You'll find lots of Milanese and Turinese will go up there for the weekend. There are lots of very smart shops in the little high street there. There's some very, very good restaurants up there.00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The ski area is not as big, probably, you know, 50km, two, three days for a, you know, a good advanced skier would be sufficient to ski a lot of it. But you can get access up to the Vallee Blanche from the Italian side as well.00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:30.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:35.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:44.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:59.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And that lift was upgraded a few years ago. And it's very, very impressive. It's much more modern than the Aguirre de Midi. And it has, you know, museums at the mid station and at the top station, which explore the history of mountaineering in the area.00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:49.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:52.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:05.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: So, I would actually say that if someone's, you know, looking to stay.00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: For a week.00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:19.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: and they have an Icon Pass, that the Ossa Valley could be a really good choice. If you had a car as well, because you can then explore Courmayeur, and then you mentioned Chavinha.00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:13.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:20.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:34.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: So, uh, slightly further down the valley, uh, and then up the hill, you mentioned that Shavinia links with Zermatt, and Shavinia is a really good resort. It's high, uh, it has.00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:23.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:29.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:31.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, thank you.00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:45.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Quite wide pistes, quite flattering type of skiing. It has Italian cuisine, as all of the Aosta Valley does. Much.00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:37.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:55.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: more affordable than Zermatt, but you could ski over to Zermatt for the day and ski the Zermatt area, uh, as well.00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:49.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:50.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:22:55.000 --> 00:23:02.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: So, Chavinha, you know, is great. There's also a smaller resort called La Tuile, uh, in the Aosta Valley as well, which…00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:00.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:09.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it is worth a day or two. That actually links over to a French resort called La Rozier. I doubt.00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:21.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: that would be included, and I don't see it on your list. Uh, and what I do see included a bit further down, we're moving around the map quite a lot, there is an area called Monterosa.00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: which is on the Aosta Valley as well. Uh, and there's two areas there called Gressenet.00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:25.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:41.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: uh, and Alanya, and the skiing in both of those, I believe, is included, uh, within that. And, uh, you know, in Gressenet, uh, and Alanya, there's some quite advanced skiing there, up in Monterosa.00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:53.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: um, some really good, you know, off-piste, uh, challenging skiing, and in fact, you can do heli-skiing out of those areas. Heli-skiing is banned in France, but it's legal in Italy, so you can ski, and it'.00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:48.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, wow.00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:51.000Stuart Winchester: Oh.00:23:53.000 --> 00:24:04.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: legal in Switzerland as well, but you can ski out of Alanya, and heliski up to the mountain called Monterosa, and, uh, you know, access some amazing off-piste from there.00:23:57.000 --> 00:23:58.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:22.000Stuart Winchester: That's incredible. I, you know, for a while, Google Maps took that. I'm looking at the map here and I changed the settings so that the lifts show up. And for a while, Google Maps had taken them off and now they've added them back on. And so you can just really get to see the scale of what's going on in Europe. And I know what Americans are going to want to do.00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:29.000Stuart Winchester: when they look at Chamonix. They're going to want to take the Algomenidae up, and they're going to try to ski down into Italy. Is.00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:50.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, I mean, it is possible. Quite literally, if you did that to the Aguirre de Midi, you could ski, you'd have to ski tour up slightly, and then you could ski down. I wouldn't suggest doing that without a guide. You know, it is feasible to do it, and when last time I went up the, uh, the lift from the Courmayeur side, I saw tracks below.00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:32.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:39.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:24:50.000 --> 00:25:04.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: but it's not a straightforward route. Cormier's 1,200 meters, you know, you can get snow all the way to the bottom, but yeah, it's possible, but definitely, you know, take a guide, I would suggest.00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:57.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:11.000Stuart Winchester: Right. All right, so let's continue with the hero trip here. Where next, Ian?00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:25.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, well, again, if you're thinking about, you know, some of the great resorts in Europe, I'm actually going to pick St. Anton in Austria next, because that is listed on the spreadsheet I'm looking at as Skjalberg.00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:16.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:20.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:25.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:27.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: On the epic, on the epic pass.00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:34.000Stuart Winchester: Right. Yeah. Everything has 10 names there. That's another, that's another reason I, we needed you on here. Um.00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah. Well…00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:41.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, Ski… Ski Aalberg is… so, let's just have a look at where you are. It's gonna be slightly to the, uh, west.00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:39.000Stuart Winchester: There it is. There it is. I found it.00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:59.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, there you go, Ski Aalberg. So, Ski Aalberg… Aalberg is, like, a region of Austria that sits within Tyrol, one of the, uh, the cantons, and in fact, that is quite good, the level that you've got it at right there. You can see, just on the video that I'm looking at, uh, at the moment.00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:44.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, there we go.00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:51.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:55.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:13.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: That you've got St. Anton is sitting almost underneath where it says Ski Aalberg. It's pretty easy to get to.00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:11.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:25.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you can get there… you can fly into either Innsbruck, or you can fly into Zurich. For, you know, I typically travel by train, but, you know, from both of those, it's about an hour and a half or so by train.00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:20.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:26.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, roughly, uh, transfer time. A really good train station in St. Anton. And St. Anton…00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:40.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: is an amazing destination. I was lucky enough to learn to ski there, you know, when I was a kid.00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:37.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:50.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And I think what… it ticks a lot of boxes. It does have, uh, maybe contrary to some people's impressions, amazing food.00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:51.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:26:50.000 --> 00:27:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: There's, like, a Michelin-star restaurant at the mid-station, just above a resort, which is, you know, well worth checking out. But lots of resorts, lots of restaurants in the town as well.00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:54.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:26:57.000 --> 00:26:59.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:03.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Has legendary apres ski.00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:04.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:12.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: There are two bars located opposite each other, which some listeners may have heard of, called the Crazy Kangaroo.00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:12.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And the moose avert.00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:15.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:29.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And these are, like, legendary at the end of the day. Skiers will go there, they'll be dancing on the tables, they'll be, uh, you know, knocking back whatever they can, and then skiing down very, very carefully.00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:18.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:26.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:44.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, to the resort, the remaining, kind of, 500 meters or so. They do actually encourage people to get a bus back, uh, now, uh, if you can, because there is a little bit of a history of… of accidents, but those two, you know, have amazing apres ski.00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:34.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:37.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:42.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:45.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:27:44.000 --> 00:28:00.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Really good restaurants, but the ski area is fantastic. Ski Aalberg covers all of the resorts in that area. On the level of maps on at the moment, you can see over to the left, there's an area called St. Christoph. You can link over to St. Christoph.00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:08.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you can link over to Steuben, quite easy to ski over there, and then just to the north of the map, as we're looking at it at the moment, will be Lech.00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:17.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: which is also part of Ski Aalberg. You know, you can stay in Lech. I tend to favor St. Anton, there's a lot more going on. Lech is a bit…00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:12.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:17.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: how can I put it? Posher, quite frankly. You know, frequented by the Dutch royal family and, uh, and others. You know, the British royal family historically used to go there as well. You can actually ski on Ski Arburg all the way up to that town called.00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:21.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, okay.00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:31.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Vaath, or Vaath, which is right at the top of the map. That is a very long day, and the connections to there are quite difficult. But it is a…00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:35.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, gosh.00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.000Stuart Winchester: You can ski from there to…00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:59.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, you could ski between there and St. Anton and back in a single day. You can get a certificate if you follow the whole route and do it. But it is a very large ski area. But St. Anton itself, really brilliant place to base yourself.00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:46.000Stuart Winchester: You're saying, wow.00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:48.000Stuart Winchester: Jeez.00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:52.000Stuart Winchester: Unbelievable.00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:53.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:00.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you know, lift connections are really good, the resort is really good, and, you know, that would be one of the reasons I would suggest that.00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And just another kind of equivalent destination for the hero trip. Oh, sorry. Go on. Go on. Yes.00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:18.000Stuart Winchester: Let me just pause and ask you one question about Ahlberg. So, you know, again, Americans are…00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:34.000Stuart Winchester: And that's, I don't want to mean to speak for the whole nation, but they tend to fall into the checklist trap where they're just trying to get to everything. Would you recommend trying to ski from here to there, or would you recommend settling in, kind of enjoying a day at each, or maybe just.00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:27.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Hmm.00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:38.000Stuart Winchester: Seeing where the day takes you, not worrying about all the lifts.00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:53.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I mean, I would only do that for a long way to go. I mean, it's quite a long way to go to Lech and back for the day. And there is a lot of really good skiing in St. Anton. I actually tend to favor the St. Christoph Steuben.00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:44.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:50.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:29:53.000 --> 00:30:09.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: area, because it doesn't get skied as much as some of the other areas, and there's a lot to ski there, so you can have peace to yourself, whereas it might be much busier closer to St. Anton. There's actually another area you can see with the lifts that you've got there going slightly south.00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:58.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:10.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:24.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: from St. Anton, that goes to an area called Rendle, which is part of the Ski Arburg area. And, you know, Rendle is another really good ski area that's often underskied. I mean, you could spend a day skiing over there on its own.00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:16.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:30.000Stuart Winchester: Is… is that… is that part of Ski Aalberg? On the Epic Pass? It is? Okay. Okay.00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's part of Schiberg as well, yeah.00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:37.000Stuart Winchester: Okay, great. All right. Anwar, you were gonna tell us about another, I think, Austrian destination.00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, I was gonna go the other… the other very obvious, I would say.00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:40.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Um…00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:44.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Big destination is Verbier.00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Which I believe is also on the Epic Pass.00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:58.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, so Verbier's in Switzerland, quite close to Chamonix. You can drive between Chamonix and Verbier in an hour and a quarter. Again, you'd fly into Geneva.00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:50.000Stuart Winchester: Ah, yeah, let's…00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:53.000Stuart Winchester: Okay. Oh, there it is.00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:55.000Stuart Winchester: Yep.00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:56.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:30:58.000 --> 00:30:59.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: really easy to get to from Geneva. You can actually get the train all the way from Geneva Airport direct to the town at the bottom of Verbier, which is called Le Chapelle, and then they have a gondola, which, uh… which you guys call a tram, I think, or, uh…00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:07.000Stuart Winchester: Oh, wow.00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:09.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:14.000Stuart Winchester: There.00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:25.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it's a bubble lift, however you want to term it, that goes directly from the valley floor, connects directly out of the railway station and up into Verbier.00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:17.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:26.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And, you know, Verbier…00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Brilliant resort. Such an amazing ski area. It's actually listed on there as a Catra Valley, the Four Valleys, and that's because it also includes several other resorts as well, which are called, I think, Lazu… you can just about see them. Lazuma, Nonda.00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:30.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, okay.00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:37.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:48.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: and Vaesuna, which are just slightly to the north there.00:31:48.000 --> 00:32:00.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, so they're all included in that area. It's a big ski area, but Verbier has a lot going on. Uh, again, you know, good apres ski, really good, uh, restaurants, uh, but.00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:52.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:55.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Particularly for the more advanced skiers, there's some incredible off-piste there. You know, you can…00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:12.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: um… go off… off the back from the top of Mon4.00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:13.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: with a guide, just again, and there's a huge area that can open up there. You can also do heli skiing out of Verbier to access some of the other peaks around there, but you can stay in the inbounds area and still ski a lot of really good off-piste.00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:34.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's high as well, you know, the resort itself is 1600 meters, and I think it goes up to.00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:45.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: 3… 2… I'm not 100% sure about that, but certainly high. So, you know, you have regular snow. I mean, I skied there in the last week of…00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: April last year.00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:32:47.000 --> 00:33:02.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: and there was still plenty of snow. Um, it's, you know, it's expensive. It's not quite as expensive as, uh, Zermatt. It doesn't have the view of the Matterhorn, but it is one of the world's best ski resorts, for sure.00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:56.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:14.000Stuart Winchester: So that's on Epic Pass, and it's, you know, Vail has purchased a couple of ski areas at Kranz, Montana, and Andermatt-Suderun, and it's also… the Epic Pass is unlimited on DeSantis, which is right.00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:23.000Stuart Winchester: contiguous with the Entermeister Druun. If you have the Epic Pass, is it worth trying to do a trip with all of those, or is Verbier enough?00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:32.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And Verbier's definitely enough for a whole week. If you had a car, Cro-Montana isn't very far away, it would probably only take you…00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:28.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:45.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you know, an hour and a bit… I'm gonna say an hour and a quarter, perhaps, to, uh, get there. Cremontana's a big area in itself. It's, um… you know, I've skied there on many occasions, and I really like it. It's not… I've been there…00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:36.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:40.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: On a family holiday.00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:48.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Whereas…00:33:48.000 --> 00:34:05.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I would go to Verbier because I like to ski kind of, uh, steep and off-piste, uh, you know, with a guide. And probably it's too expensive to take a family to. Cromontana is, uh, you know, a bit more, uh, affordable. I mean, it's still a very smart, uh, resort.00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:54.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:13.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But if you wanted to explore, you could go there. Amount is a bit more of a stretch in terms of distance.00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:14.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:18.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: You know, if you were on a tour, and you're an Epic Pass holder, you could take it in.00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Now, I'm also a fan of Andermatt. I've been there several times, uh, as well. Again, probably go to Zurich for Andermatt. You can get the train from Zurich in about an hour and a half, something like that. And it's a really interesting story, uh, Andermatt. You know, it used to be…00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:26.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Its location is strategically significant in the middle of several valleys. So at once upon a time, it used to be an army base.00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:55.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And then, when the army, uh, withdrew, it kind of went into decline for a long time. And it was bought by, uh, the area was brought by a property developer.00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:50.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:08.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And ultimately, he built it up, and more recently, Vale Resorts have taken that over. And so there's a lot of new accommodations, some incredibly nice restaurants. Again, more Michelin stars there. I've got a feeling…00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It might have the highest number of Michelin stars per capita for any.00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: town in the world.00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:26.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, and the skiing itself, you know, again, I've been there with a guide, there's some excellent off-piste skiing, but there's, you know, a good amount of on-piste skiing as well.00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:29.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's a really, it's really appealing area.00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:35.000Stuart Winchester: So you mentioned having a guide many times, and I think that's, you know, in…00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Heh.00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:45.000Stuart Winchester: in North America, we generally only hire guides when we're going outside of the resort, and a lot of folks don't even do it then, if they're confident in their own avalanche.00:35:45.000 --> 00:36:00.000Stuart Winchester: capabilities. In general, everything within resort boundaries in North America is considered to be patrolled and controlled, meaning they'll do avalanche work, and if it's open, you can go in it without a guide. There's a few exceptions where you need transceivers, etc.00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:13.000Stuart Winchester: That's not really the case in Europe, so just from a mentality standpoint, how should skiers approach this when they're going to some of these hero resorts you're talking about, as far as.00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:18.000Stuart Winchester: Considering a guide in essential versus a luxury.00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:36.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Okay, I wouldn't want to mislead you there. I mean, guides are just on my mind, because I like a lot of backcountry skiing, and therefore, I often, you know, go with them. In bounds, you don't need a guide, absolutely not. You know, you can download the app, or get yourself a peace map, and you can.00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:23.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:27.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:58.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: go around the place as much as you want, and, uh, you know, it is fully secured, you've got ski patrol, uh, etc, so you don't need to be concerned about that. It just happens that a lot of the places that I've mentioned so far, you know, do have some of those more interesting off-piste options, and I guess it depends a bit on the listener and, you know, what they're, uh, looking for, but you… you don't…00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: need to have a guide to show you around resorts. I mean, potentially, some of these ski areas are.00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:04.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:13.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: significantly larger than they might come across in North America, and therefore.00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:12.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:29.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: it could be a good investment to rent someone or to hire someone to show you around. I mean, back in the day, in the 90s, when I was working in the Alps, I worked for British tour operators, and part of my job was showing guests around the mountains and helping them orientate themselves.00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:38.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And that actually is pertinent, because the next resort I wanted, or area I wanted to mention, was Le Trois Vallees, Le Three Valleys.00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:40.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Which…00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:41.000Stuart Winchester: Also on Epic Pass.00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:45.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: also is on Epic Pass. Now, the three valleys…00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:53.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: probably has a pretty good awareness amongst the North American market. I mean, it is the world's largest ski area.00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:51.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:54.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:37:53.000 --> 00:38:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: There's 600 kilometers apiece there, and I work four seasons in the three valleys, three in Meribel and one in Courchevel.00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:57.000Stuart Winchester: Peace.00:37:58.000 --> 00:37:59.000Stuart Winchester: Wow.00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:03.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And it is.00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:14.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: magnificent in terms of scale. There is so much skiing you can do there, and, you know, I worked four winters there. Did I ski every single run, you know, during that time? I doubt it.00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:24.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, because you tend to go back and forth across a lot of them. Uh, you know, there is so much that it's gonna take you well more than a week if you wanted to, uh.00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:19.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:29.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: ski them all, but you could certainly explore the three valleys.00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:39.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: You know, I… it's hard to know exactly which of those destinations to recommend, because it depends on the individuals to…00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:46.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: put it in context, you have three valleys, literally, over, if we were looking on the map, the left-hand side, you would have Courchevel.00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:43.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:47.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:49.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The middle, Maribel.00:38:49.000 --> 00:39:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, and the right-hand side, Val Torrens. I think as we look at the map at the moment, it's the opposite way round. So we can see on the left, you've got Val Torrens at the top. That's the highest ski resort in Europe. It's 2,300 meters itself, the resort. Not high by, like, Colorado standards or something like that, but high by European standards.00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:53.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:55.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:08.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:19.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's above the tree line, uh, you know, it's changed a lot in recent years, but there's a lot of apartment accommodation there, there's a lot of nice four- and five-star hotels up there, uh, as well, but it doesn't have.00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:28.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Like, if you were coming to Europe for the first time, it doesn't have the kind of character, the charisma.00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:22.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:28.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: that some other resorts, let's say, like Verbier, or Zermatt, or St. Anton have, because it's modern, you know, it was built in the 1970s, so it's a purpose-built, uh, resort. Also, in that valley slightly lower down, you have Leymanduia, more.00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:35.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:47.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Prettier, you know, at the bottom, you've got a place called San Martin.00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:49.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The middle valley, Meribel.00:39:49.000 --> 00:40:04.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: that is lots of pretty chocolate box chalets. Uh, you know, I worked 3 years there. It's brilliantly connected. Uh, the resort itself is between 1,400 and 1,800 meters, so it's pretty high.00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:53.000Stuart Winchester: Yeah.00:39:58.000 --> 00:39:59.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And, you know, it's a good…00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:19.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: base, I'd still, if you were thinking about that, I'd still, you know, without wishing to offend any of my friends in Mirabal, and I have very many of them, I'd probably say if you think about a week and you wanted to base yourself somewhere.00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:21.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Maybe Verbier or Saint Anton.00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:33.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: would be a better choice for that. They both have, you know, still big ski areas, and just a little bit more accessibility, uh, you know, overall.00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:28.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:39.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Courchevel, again, a resort I love that I worked in for a season.00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:41.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: There's several different…00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:46.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: um, what the French call station, different levels within Courchevel.00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:44.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:46.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:40:46.000 --> 00:41:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Courchevel 1850, most people will have heard of. It's a top station. It's at 1850 meters. It is very shishy. Five and six star hotels, 13 Michelin stars.00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:51.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:58.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:13.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: you know, across the resort, it… you can't find… well, I have stayed there in a couple of budget accommodations, but there's not really budget accommodation. You know, if you want to go and…00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: to a resort where you may well end up, you know, sharing a hotel with, I don't know, Leo DiCaprio, or, you know, you might find a member of the British Royals there, or David Beckham, then that's the kind of place to go.00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:32.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:36.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But you're going to have to pay to go along with that. And it has fantastic skiing.00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:35.000Stuart Winchester: Mm-hmm.00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:37.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:38.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But again.00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:45.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: if you're only coming for a shorter period of time, I'd be inclined to mention a couple of the other resorts I mentioned, plus…00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:54.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I want to mention Valdezare as well, but I don't think Valdezare is on any of the collective passes, is it?00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:58.000Stuart Winchester: Hmm. Uh, is it part of one of these bigger…00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:59.000Stuart Winchester: Domains or.00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:05.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: No, it is not. I mean, there is a, uh… so it's not going to come up on your map.00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: But Valdisera is a brilliant…00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:24.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: uh, resort, which does give you traditional skiing, a pretty village, a huge, uh, ski area that links up to Teen, where they have a glacier, so you can kind of guarantee that you're going to be able to get skiing. Skiing goes up to 3,500 meters there.00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:25.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:41.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And I met Americans there, so Americans certainly know about it. I met a family from, you know, Florida who were in the Folly Deuce, who were enjoying themselves in the VIP area and very kindly, you know, offered us some of their champagne.00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:29.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:53.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: uh, at the time. You know, Founders Area is a brilliant resort, not covered on any of those passes. That doesn't mean that it's not necessarily going to be, you know, a good option, uh, for you. You know, lift tickets.00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:43.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:42:53.000 --> 00:43:07.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: are going to be, you know, dirt cheap compared to the States, but maybe still, like, 80 euros a day, or something like that, you know, overall, but a really good ski area. So those are all… I think we've covered all of the, kind of, the bigger.00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:00.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:04.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:18.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: kind of places there, unless you've got any other questions in relation to any of them. Oh, no, hold on! We've missed one! We've missed one! Dolomitiski!00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:15.000Stuart Winchester: No. Yeah.00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:16.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:19.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:21.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: That's on Icon, isn't it?00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:35.000Stuart Winchester: Uh, well, Dolomiti Super Ski is on Icon, Skirama Dolomiti is on Epic. They each have, like, 100 ski areas, it seems like, so… yeah, this is how they're pitched to us. I don't know how you want to make sense to them on the ground… of them on the ground.00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah.00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:34.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah.00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:51.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, okay, let's talk Dolomiti superskis. That's where the Winter Olympics were last year. Milan Cortina. Cortina is in the Dolomites. And it is a huge superski area, you know, depending how you do the definitions, it's larger.00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:39.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:40.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:43.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:45.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:50.000Stuart Winchester: Yes.00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: than L'Etoile Vallee.00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:54.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Uh, but…00:43:56.000 --> 00:44:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Sometimes that means getting a bus in between. Uh, it is…00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:13.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It is great. You could fly into Innsbruck, you could fly into Venice, you can combine that with a trip to Venice, or maybe Verona, or Milan. They're all about equidistance from the Dolomiti Sufski.00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:04.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:16.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: It's visually accurate.00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:31.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Absolutely stunning. The Dolomites are just an amazing mountain range. I found myself when I was skiing in Val Gardena, which we'll come to right in the middle of your map at the moment, just being distracted.00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:18.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:23.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:29.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:43.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: I'm looking at the mountains, because they're just so gorgeous. I'm skiing down this piste. You know, looking at this mountain, thinking, oh my god, this is just amazing. And then on top of that, you know, you have.00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:36.000Stuart Winchester: Right.00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:41.000Stuart Winchester: Yah.00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:58.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Italian cuisine, Italian prices, you know, yeah, Cortina's the most expensive. Again, quite a lot of, uh, you know, Milanese would go up there for the weekend, but, you know, overall, Selva, again, roughly around the middle of your, uh, map at the moment. Yeah, really…00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:58.000Stuart Winchester: Okay.00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:06.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Really good value, you know, considering it's a really good access point for a fantastic ski area.00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:06.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:09.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And it has…00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:16.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: The Superski is not a misnomer. It is a very large ski area.00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:13.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:27.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: And there's some amazing circuits that you can do there. So I would probably recommend, if you were thinking about it, Cortina or Silva Val Gardena would be the two best places to locate yourself.00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:26.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:37.000Stuart Winchester: And do you like Superski over Vail's Skirama Dolomiti group? And again, I've dug in a little bit, but I didn't include on this map what that…00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:42.000Stuart Winchester: contains, and I dropped the pin here on, uh, Campo Carlomagno, but…00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:46.000Stuart Winchester: It includes a lot of things in, you know, almost equal.00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:58.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah, I'm gonna have to put my hand up and say I don't know that area as well. I haven't actually skied there myself. It is, to my mind, and I can check your stats because I've got it in front of me, you're saying it's roughly the same skiable area.00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:49.000Stuart Winchester: Mmhm.00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:01.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Right. Was that the vertical drop?00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:01.000Stuart Winchester: That's the stats that…00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:04.000Stuart Winchester: or on the Epic Pass website.00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:04.000Iain - The Ski Podcast: Yeah.00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:06.000Stuart Winchester

Desde criança, ela era extremamente ativa e experimentou diferentes esportes. Começou na natação, praticou nado sincronizado, fez sapateado entre outras modalidades. A natação também foi seu primeiro esporte competitivo e, ainda adolescente, participou de provas de águas abertas e biathlons. Aos 17, conheceu o triathlon e, alguns anos depois, leu uma matéria sobre o Eco-Challenge e descobriu as corridas de aventura. O que começou como diversão foi ganhando um espaço cada vez mais central em sua vida. Durante 20 anos, enfrentou as principais provas no Brasil e no exterior. Foi fundadora e capitã da Atenah, equipe feminina que se tornou uma das principais representantes brasileiras da modalidade. Disputou algumas das corridas de aventura mais importantes do mundo, incluindo Eco-Challenge, Raid Gauloises, Ecomotion Pro e o Campeonato Mundial de Corrida de Aventura. Ela venceu a edição de 2002 da "Terra Incógnita", na Croácia, e conquistou o quarto lugar no Ecomotion Pro de 2006, sendo a primeira equipe brasileira a cruzar o pórtico de chegada. Em 2008, correndo por outra equipe, conquistou o Brasil Wild Extreme, uma das maiores corridas de aventura realizadas no país. Foi eleita duas vezes a melhor atleta feminina da modalidade. Foi tricampeã brasileira de canoa havaiana, vice-campeã pan-americana de rafting, conquistou pódios no Xterra e participou de provas de mountain bike, SUP e ultramaratonas de montanha, incluindo o Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc e o Cruce de los Andes. Em 2019, voltou ao Eco-Challenge, desta vez em Fiji, para uma reedição que seria transformada em reality show para o streaming Amazon Prime. Também passou a conhecer as competições de um outro ponto de vista. Foi diretora de prova da Liga Outdoor e responsável por desenhar percursos organizar diversas corridas. E, mesmo depois de tantos anos entre provas, expedições e organização de eventos, ela continua competindo. Em 2021, voltou às participar de corridas de aventura. Em 2025 foi campeã da Haka Race Expedition na categoria duplas mistas e este ano, vinte e cinco anos depois do único Ironman que participou até então, largou o Swedeman Xtreme Triathlon, na Suécia, terminando na sétima colocação entre as mulheres. E, no Brasil, foi quinta colocada nos 35km da La Misión. Formada em Educação pela PUC-SP, ela trabalha há muitos anos com educação formal e ao ar livre para crianças e adolescentes. Criou e dirige o Acampamento de Aventura Go Outside e atua na produção de experiências ao ar livre, na organização de eventos esportivos e como agente de viagens especializada em neve e aventura. Este ano, passou a apresentar o Xtremma, um podcast onde recebe pessoas para falar de aventuras e experiências extremas. Conosco aqui, seis anos depois de sua primeira passagem pelo Endörfina, mais forte do que nunca, a atleta mais importante das corridas de aventura no Brasil, a paulistana Sílvia Pereira Barretto Guimarães, a Shubi. Inspire-se! Race Smart - check your heart Este episódio é oferecido pela @z2perfomance Para quem busca uma estratégia de nutrição mais completa para treinos e provas de alta exigência, a Z2 lançou o novo LoadUp 40g, agora com 300mg de sódio. Ele mantém o blend 1:0,8 de maltodextrina + frutose, desenvolvido para aumentar a tolerância ao consumo de carboidratos e entregar energia ultrarrápida, agora com a adição de sódio para complementar sua estratégia de abastecimento. O Saltz, da Z2, é pensado pra reposição eficiente de eletrólitos e suporte real à performance em treinos e provas. Repõe sódio, potássio e magnésio, ajudando a manter o desempenho em treinos longos e dias de calor de acordo com a sua estratégia e necessidade. Siga @z2performance e fique por dentro do universo da Z2. SIGA e COMPARTILHE o Endörfina no Youtube ou através do seu app preferido de podcasts. Contribua também com este projeto através do Apoia.se.   

Der Berg ruft". Spätestens seit dem Bergfilmklassiker mit Luis Trenker aus dem Jahr 1938 ist das ein geflügeltes Wort. Aber seit wann „ruft der Berg“ eigentlich? Die Geschichte des Alpinismus, so wie wir ihn kennen, beginnt Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. Angeblich hätten die Menschen davor jahrtausendelang die Berge gemieden und sogar gefürchtet. Doch das ist ein Mythos und gilt auch nur für die Gipfel. Natürlich stieg kein Bergbauer oder keine Bergbäuerin freiwillig so hoch hinauf. Warum auch? Die Berge waren Teil ihres Alltags: Sie boten Weideland und Handelswege, waren Orte der Begegnung und des Austauschs, manchmal waren sie sogar Sitz der Götter. Die Gipfel hingegen thronten über allem und erfüllten für die Menschen in den Bergen weder einen sozialen noch einen wirtschaftlichen Zweck. Das änderte sich erst im 18. Jahrhunderts mit der Zeit der Aufklärung. Die Berge wurden zu einer Art Forschungslabor, man kraxelte in nie geahnte Höhen, um Temperaturen zu messen, Gipfel zu kartieren oder am eigenen Leib zu erfahren, was es bedeutete, höhenkrank zu werden. Als der Mont Blanc Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts zum ersten Mal bestiegen und darüber in ganz Europa berichtet wurde, setzte ein wahrer Run auf die Alpen ein. Irgendwann kletterten die ersten Menschen einfach nur zum Spaß auf die höchsten Gipfel. „Weil er da ist“ soll der berühmte britische Bergsteiger George Mallory 1923 auf die Frage einmal geantwortet haben, warum er plane, den Mount Everest zu besteigen. Ein Podcast über die ersten Alpinisten, Bergsteigen in der NS-Propaganda und die Frage: Stimmt es, dass Frauen am Berg lange Zeit in einer Seilschaft nur im Nebel vorsteigen durften? Interviewpartner*innen: Philipp Felsch Martina Gugglberger Dawn Hollis Jason König Gudrun Weikert Walter Würtl Literatur: Arrian: Der Alexanderzug (Anabasis Alexandrou), 4. Buch (zahlreiche Ausgaben; im Podcast eigene Übersetzung). Deutsche Ausgabe z. B.: Arrian, Der Alexanderzug, griechisch und deutsch, hg. u. übers. v. Gerhard Wirth und Oskar von Hinüber, Düsseldorf/Zürich: Artemis & Winkler. Augustinus: Bekenntnisse (Confessiones), Deutsche Ausgabe, Reclam, Stuttgart. Felsch, Philipp (2007): Laborlandschaften. Physiologische Alpenreisen im 19. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. Grupp, Peter (2008): Faszination Berg. Die Geschichte des Alpinismus. Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau Verlag. Gugglberger, Martina (2021): Grenzen im Aufstieg. Frauenexpeditionen in den Himalaya (1955–2014) (= Geschichte und Geschlechter, Bd. 77). Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus Verlag. Hansen, Peter H. (2013): The Summits of Modern Man. Mountaineering after the Enlightenment. Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press. Hollis, Dawn L. (2024): Mountains Before Mountaineering. The Call of the Peaks before the Modern Age. Stroud: The History Press. 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Wordsworth, William (1844): Kendal and Windermere Railway. Two Letters Re-printed from the Morning Post (erster Brief, 9. Dezember 1844). Würtl, Walter u. a. (2026): DIGIWAY – Geodaten für Sicherheit am Berg (gemeinsam mit Christoph Höbenreich, Christoph Kovacs, Klaus Pietersteiner, Lucia Felbauer und Peter Plattner), in: bergundsteigen. Zeitschrift für Risikomanagement im Bergsport. Walter Würtl ist zudem langjähriger Redakteur von bergundsteigen und analyse:berg (Österreichisches Kuratorium für Alpine Sicherheit). Internetquellen: Magazin des Deutschen Alpenvereins (DAV) Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock - UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Alpinismus Engländerunglück – Wikipedia Ötzi, der Mann aus dem Eis - Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum Weitere Links: Die Geschichte des Urlaubs (Terra X History – der Podcast) - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5X5jsY9nIPtHWVSH2BwYFg?si=0028c2115f564d4f Podcast-Tipp: Erdsee: https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/erdsee/index.html Team: Moderation: Mirko Drotschmann Sprecher*innen: Verena Glanos, Dominik Freiberger, Andrea Kath, Nils Kretschmer Buch und Regie: objektiv media GmbH, Janine Funke und Andrea Kath Technik: Sarah Fitzek Musik: Sonoton Produktion: objektiv media GmbH im Auftrag des ZDF Redaktion ZDF: Katharina Kolvenbach und Arne Peisker

Cada dia, de dilluns a divendres de 15h a 16h, t'apropem els millors temes de proximitat amb protagonistes quilòmetre zero d'arreu del Camp de Tarragona. Presentat per Adrià Tella, un programa que fan conjuntament Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, BXC Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, Ràdio La Selva, Ràdio l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, La Nova Ràdio de Reus i […] L'entrada Carrer Major | Programa Especial Misericordia (24/09/2026) ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

Cada dia, de dilluns a divendres de 15h a 16h, t'apropem els millors temes de proximitat amb protagonistes quilòmetre zero d'arreu del Camp de Tarragona. Presentat per Adrià Tella, un programa que fan conjuntament Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, BXC Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, Ràdio La Selva, Ràdio l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, La Nova Ràdio de Reus i […] L'entrada Carrer Major | Programa sencer (23/09/2026) ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

Send us Fan MailIn episode #200 host Kyla Channell spoke with Jacquie Mannhard about her 2nd place finish at the 2026 Leadville 100 running race about recovery, fueling and the mental grind of 100 miles.How she approaches the unique demands of 100-mile racing, including her evolution and nutrition overhaulJacquie shares the hard-earned fueling, hydration, recovery, and mindset lessons that have shaped her performances since her Leadville win in 2023A candid look at what it takes to keep pushing when the body is completely spent.Please note that this podcast is created strictly for educational purposes and should never be used for medical diagnosis or treatment.ABOUT JACQUIE MANNHARDJacquie Mannhard is a mom, coach, and trail runner based in Boulder, Colorado. She has been an athlete through all chapters of life: as a competitive swimmer in childhood, to an NCAA All-American in cross country and track, to dabbling in triathlon, pushing the baby jogger, and now racing ultra-distances on trails. Since her 50K debut in 2018, Jacquie has tackled some of the most beautiful, challenging, and competitive races including the Leadville Trail 100, Highlonesome 100, Canyons 100, Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, Black Canyons, Bandera, and Javelina. Her breakthrough win at the 2023 Leadville Trail 100 surprised almost everyone, except herself. Just last month she returned to Leadville, finishing the 100 mile race one hour faster than before, and landing on the overall podium again, this time in second place.Jacquie loves supporting the running community through coaching all ages of athletes. Now entering her 8th season of coaching youth cross country and track, she aspires to be the coach that helps kids fall in love with running for a lifetime.Outside of running, Jacquie tries to keep pace with her adventurous hubby and two kids while skiing, biking, rock climbing, swimming, and playing four square on the driveway. She hopes to be moving joyfully in the outdoors for many decades to comeFOLLOW JACQUIE:IG: https://www.instagram.com/jmannhard/FREE RESOURCESSweat Testing Guide: https://mailchi.mp/f25c97ba0406/sweattestingCarb Loading Guide: https://mailchi.mp/nutritional-revolution/free-carb-loading-guideMENTIONEDSkratch: https://link.amazon/B03HDUTCYEnervit Gels (Jacquie's go-to is mango): https://go.shopmy.us/p-85769583NeverSecond Gels: https://link.amazon/B00e353s8Creatine: https://nutritional-revolution.com/product/thorne-creatine/Author Thich Nhat Hanh: https://link.amazon/B0bXZlsh9TIMESTAMPS00:00 - Meet Jacquie Mannhard and the Leadville race context02:25 - Post-race fatigue, brain fog, and the need for a long recovery runway03:25 - Why rushing back after a 100 miler can backfire05:00 - Winning Leadville in 2023 and racing second this year06:02 - How the altered Leadville course changed the effort07:53 - A very different race dynamic in 202409:00 - Racing hard when the top women kept trading positions10:23 - The mental descent of 100-mile racing11:18 - Why Jacquie leans on Buddhist teaching for mental strength12:14 - How repeat exposure builds endurance confidence13:17 - Runner's high versus the deeper, darker race-day low13:52 - Final-mile GI distress and dynamic fueling adjustments15:18 - Switching to Scratch hydration and lowering drink concentration16:44 - Gel choices, including Enervit mango gels and Neversecond17:44 - The 70 to 80 grams per hour carb target19:01 - Hydration at altitude and avoiding thirst19:24 - Cramping, or lack of it19:41 - The week before a 100 miler: extreme rest and sleep banking20:50 - Carbohydrate loading like a bear before hibernation21:20 - Race-week meals: rice, toast, sandwiches, pasta, and liquid calories21:50 - Sleep expectations before a 4 a.m. Leadville start22:48 - Race-morning hydration, caffeine, and her consistent oatmeal breakfast24:15 - Pre-start snacking and topping off energy stores24:55 - Starting fuel intake early in the race25:18 - How crew systems keep nutrition honest25:55 - Heat, altitude, and the reality of racing at Leadville26:38 - Sun protection, sunscreen, and altitude exposure27:12 - Sweat testing and what Jacquie hopes to learn27:59 - Salt tabs, pickle juice, and salty foods for balance28:40 - Managing sweet-fuel fatigue on the course29:49 - Supplements, creatine, and why she is a slow adopter32:17 - How her nutrition protocol changed from 2023 to now33:29 - Crew access points, aid stations, and long stretches without support34:09 - The unique Leadville rule that lets pacers carry your gear35:43 - Post-finish cravings, catabolic recovery, and eating hard for days38:18 - Hot broth, Cheetos, sandwiches, and immediate recovery eating38:59 - Mobility, foam rolling, swimming, and massage tools after the race39:53 - Sauna work in winter and heat adaptation in summer40:55 - Fueling advice for runners training for their first 100 miler41:41 - How mom life and kids strengthen her training and perspective42:59 - What Jacquie wants female runners to know44:52 - What is next: recovery, coaching kids' cross country, and maybe a fast road marathon46:52 - Where to follow Jacquie and how to connect in BoulderMORE NRApply to work with Kyla → https://p.bttr.to/3ZrwzcFUse code NEWPOD10 for 10% off our meal plans → https://nutritional-revolution.com/products/CONNECT Instagram → www.instagram.com/nutritionalrevolutionSponsorship inquiries → kyla.c@nutritional-revolution.comInterested in having your biomarkers or nutrigenomics checked? 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Cada dia, de dilluns a divendres de 15h a 16h, t'apropem els millors temes de proximitat amb protagonistes quilòmetre zero d'arreu del Camp de Tarragona. Presentat per Adrià Tella, un programa que fan conjuntament Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, BXC Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, Ràdio La Selva, Ràdio l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, La Nova Ràdio de Reus i […] L'entrada Carrer Major | Programa especial Santa Tecla (22/09/2026) ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

Before my daughter was born, I made a book split into two halves. One cover said 'me.' The other said 'you.' I filled the 'you' side with a list of hopes for who she'd become. I had a lot of ideas about the person she should be before I'd ever met her.  This episode marks ten years of the podcast, and I'm using it to walk through ten things I got wrong along the way. Because if you're in the middle of any of these yourself, I want you to know exactly where I started. I'll cover what I misunderstood about the RIE approach and Magda Gerber's work, how I mixed up authoritative and authoritarian parenting in an early episode and had to go back and correct it on air, and a fight over a dose of antibiotics that taught me the difference between managing my daughter's behavior and understanding what was underneath it. Then I get into what I got wrong about myself: a resentment that built for months in my marriage before I understood what a need even was, a moment mid-interview when I realized one of my biggest triggers had nothing to do with my daughter, and the Alfie Kohn book that planted the seed for how I parent now. I close with what I got wrong about parenting itself, and why, ten years in, I still think most of us are trying to do this without the people around us it takes. Questions this episode will answer What is the RIE approach to parenting? RIE, developed by Magda Gerber, treats infants as capable people who deserve respect from birth. I only found out about it because friends who practiced RIE came to meet my daughter right after she was born, right before they moved away. This episode gets into what happened after that one visit.  What's the difference between authoritative and authoritarian parenting? Authoritative parenting is warm and sets limits through relationship, while authoritarian parenting sets limits through control and obedience. I got these two labels mixed up on the podcast in 2017. This episode looks at what happened when I dug into the research behind that framework and found out how narrow it is. How do you discipline a child without using punishment? Instead of punishment, this approach looks at what a child is struggling with and works with them to solve the problem. I share the story of a medicine fight with my daughter where forcing the issue failed completely, and a different approach, built on her having some say in what happened, worked on the first try. Why do couples fight more after having a baby? New parents often take on different loads of housework, childcare, and mental tracking, and that imbalance builds resentment fast when it isn't named. I talk through the specific fight with my husband that forced me to see I was missing collaboration and acknowledgement, and that he was missing something too.  What is the Gottman method, and does it work for parenting partners? The Gottman method is a well-known approach to couples communication, built on decades of relationship research. I talk about where I think it falls short for parents specifically, and what I changed to fill the gap with couples in the Parenting Membership. What are the biggest mistakes parents make? This episode names ten, from misunderstanding what respect looks like with an infant to assuming a nuclear family is supposed to do this work alone. I walk through each one, including the specific moment that showed me I had it wrong. What you'll learn in this episode How Magda Gerber's RIE approach and Alfie Kohn's bookUnconditional Parentingreshaped how I saw my daughter, and which of Kohn's 13 principles I still use with parents todayWhy the authoritative parenting research that's been cited over 26,000 times was built on 146 white, middle-class preschoolers in one town, and what that means for how much weight it should carryThe medicine fight that showed me the difference between forcing a behavior to stop and understanding what my daughter needed to do it differentlyHow a recurring fight with my husband over the four-month sleep regression led me to understand what a need is, in my marriage and in my parentingWhat happened during a live interview when I realized one of my biggest triggers wasn't about my daughter at all, and how that became Taming Your TriggersWhy I now think parenting was never supposed to happen inside one house with one set of parents, and what building a village looked like for my family Other episodes mentioned: 020: How do I get my child to do what I want them to do?148: Is spanking a child really so bad?183: What I wish I'd known about parenting069: Reducing the impact of intergenerational trauma209: How to get on the same page as your parenting partner Ten years of learning it twice Every one of these ten lessons, I had to learn twice. Once in my head, from a book or a study or a guest on the show. Then again, slower and harder, in the actual moment with Carys or Alvin, often while everyone around me was doing it a different way. Knowing what's underneath a behavior doesn't mean you'll catch it at 6pm when dinner's burning and your kid is on the floor. That takes practice, and people around you who are practicing the same thing. That's what the Parenting Membership is for. A place to keep practicing the information you learned, in your specific moments with your specific kid, alongside other parents doing the same work. Jump to highlights 00:00 Opening: the original episode zero script, re-recorded and re-read on this 10th anniversary 01:57 Milestone reflection: 10 years, over 300 episodes, and thanking Dr. Roberta Golinkoff and Katie Stankie 06:00 What I got wrong #1: thinking my job was to make Carys stop doing things, illustrated by a medicine-refusal standoff 09:19 What I got wrong #2: uncritically accepting authoritative parenting as "the best" style before questioning Baumrind's framework 13:40 Listener Laura shares what she wishes she'd known about potty training too early 17:41 What I got wrong #3: believing kids would "walk all over me" without punishments and consequences 18:34 Dr. Houri Parsi's story of a four-minute toothbrushing turnaround once she stopped trying to control the outcome 21:31 What I got wrong #4: not understanding that people (including myself) have needs, illustrated by early parenting friction with my husband 24:01 What I got wrong #5: realizing my triggers were about my own history, not just my husband's behavior, in conversation with Dr. Rebecca Babcock-Fenerci 27:55 What I got wrong #6: assuming parenting wouldn't change me much, illustrated by hiking the Tour de Mont Blanc with an 8-week-old 30:27 What I got wrong #7: trying to shape my daughter into a preconceived idea, based on a list of "hopes" written during pregnancy 33:14 What I got wrong #8: assuming I'd be "the enforcer," and how Alfie Kohn's Unconditional Parenting principles shifted that 39:07 What I got wrong #9: treating couples' relationships as separate from parent-child ones, and lessons from Gottman-based coaching 42:34 What I got wrong #10: assuming parenting happens within one nuclear household rather than needing a village 47:58 Closing thanks to Denise Suarez and an invitation to join the Parenting Membership

Cada dia, de dilluns a divendres de 15h a 16h, t'apropem els millors temes de proximitat amb protagonistes quilòmetre zero d'arreu del Camp de Tarragona. Presentat per Adrià Tella, un programa que fan conjuntament Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, BXC Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, Ràdio La Selva, Ràdio l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, La Nova Ràdio de Reus i […] L'entrada Carrer Major | Programa sencer (21/09/2026) ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

Cada dia, de dilluns a divendres de 15h a 16h, t'apropem els millors temes de proximitat amb protagonistes quilòmetre zero d'arreu del Camp de Tarragona. Presentat per Adrià Tella, un programa que fan conjuntament Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona, BXC Ràdio, Ràdio Montblanc, Ràdio La Selva, Ràdio l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, La Nova Ràdio de Reus i […] L'entrada Carrer Major | Programa sencer (18/09/2026) ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

How do you put a price on a 15-carat diamond, a rare Hermès bracelet, or even a pen once owned by Lee Kuan Yew? On this edition of Unusual Jobs, we step inside the world of auction houses with Matthew Elton, Founder and CEO of Hotlotz, and Christopher Lanigan O'Keeffe, Co-Founder and Director of Auctions. We hear what goes into handling some of Singapore’s most closely watched sales, from Lee Kuan Yew’s Montblanc pen to hundreds of luxury items forfeited in the S$3 billion money laundering case, and find out what it takes to turn an object into a lot worth bidding for.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Avec SYLVAINE CUSSOT, SABINE EHRSTRÖM et MANON BOHARDVoici le 27e épisode de la saison 5 (#107) de La Bande à D+, le talk-show du trail et de l'ultra-trail animé par Nicolas Fréret du média d'information Distances+, une émission consacrée à la place des femmes dans le trail.« La place des femmes dans le trail est une question politique », affirme la sociologue Mathilde Plard dans le premier numéro de la revue Grand Trail.Alors faut-il prendre des décisions fortes pour féminiser davantage le trail ? Réserver 50 % des dossards aux femmes, comme l'a fait l'Ultra-Trail du Vercors ? Proposer des courses exclusivement féminines, comme le Swiss Women's Trail ? La parité doit-elle devenir un objectif ? La non-mixité peut-elle au contraire permettre à davantage de femmes d'oser prendre le départ ? Des questions d'autant plus intéressantes que la proportion de femmes diminue fortement lorsque les distances s'allongent : 39 % des athlètes au départ des trails de 10 km sont des femmes en France, contre 17 % sur les distances de 100 km et plus.Pour en discuter :

Victor Larocque débarque au podcast, et pour l'occasion, je ressors le concept des épisodes Autour du feu : une jasette décontractée, quelques breuvages houblonnés et le crépitement du feu en trame de fond. Dans l'épisode, Victor revient sur son parcours, son initiation à la course lors d'un voyage en Indonésie et cette passion pour le trail où l'aspect aventure occupe une place important. On parle notamment de sa détermination à finalement boucler (et remporter) l'UTHC 125, après avoir connu des moments plus difficiles lors de ses premières tentatives. On revient aussi sur les douze derniers mois consacrés à un grand objectif : l'UTMB. Une quête qui l'aura d'abord mené jusqu'à Chihuahua, au Mexique, pour participer au Rarámuri 100 miles, au cœur du mythique Copper Canyon. Une expérience qui l'aura plongé directement dans l'univers de Born to Run et qui lui aura fait vivre une fin de course assez particulière. Victor me raconte notamment son quasi-DNF à quelques kilomètres de l'arrivée, alors qu'il avait plus de deux heures d'avance sur le 2e coureur. Il me raconte aussi les hauts et les bas de son Tour du Mont-Blanc effectué dans les semaines qui ont précédé l'UTMB, et qui a eu un impact direct sur sa course. Mais au-delà des événements et des aventures, on parle surtout de ce que ça implique de consacrer une année à la préparation d'un 100 miles. Conciliation entre la vie familiale, le travail et la course, impacts sur le quotidien, sacrifices et gestion du temps : comment trouve-t-on l'équilibre lorsqu'un projet de cette ampleur prend autant de place? Une conversation différente, à l'image d'une soirée Autour du feu : décontractée, authentique et remplie d'anecdotes qui donnent le goût de partir à l'aventure. Bonne écoute!*Magasinez dès maintenant chez Altitude Sports et profitez d'un rabais jusqu'à 20% sur votre première commande avec le code promo PASSORTIDUBOIS2026. Cliquez ici pour commander : https://bit.ly/altitude-passortidubois2026Des conditions s'appliquent : Valide uniquement sur les produits à prix régulier. Valide pour un temps limité suivant l'inscription. Ne peut être jumelé à aucune autre promotion et/ou code rabais. Limité à une utilisation par client. Le rabais membre ne peut être combiné à cette offre.**Le partenariat avec Altitude Sports s'inscrit dans une campagne publicitaire menée par l'agence Podpass.CréditsDesign graphique : David HébertThème musical : Frédérick DesrochesIdée originale, production, recherche et animation : Yannick Vézina© Pas sorti du bois 2026

Die Arktis gewinnt geopolitisch an Bedeutung. Darum will die EU stärker Einfluss auf diese Weltregion nehmen. An der Arktis-Konferenz in Finnland hat sie ihre Strategie präsentiert. Über die Hintergründe spricht Nordeuropa-Korrespondent Bruno Kaufmann. Weitere Themen: In Schottland, Wales und Nordirland kämpfen verschiedene Parteien seit Jahrzehnten für mehr Selbstbestimmung. Jetzt rücken diese Parteien, die die Unabhängigkeit von England wollen, bei einem Treffen enger zusammen. Grossbritannien-Korrespondentin Fiona Endres über die Forderungen und Chancen. Es ist die grosse Frage: Wird nach der Niederlage der CDU in Sachsen-Anhalt die Landtagswahl in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern am nächsten Sonntag zur Schicksalswahl für Bundeskanzler Merz? Eine Einschätzung von Auslandredaktor Stefan Reinhart. Auch in den USA gibt es grosse Fragen: Könnte KI tatsächlich stärker reguliert werden? Was hätte das für Folgen, weil KI derzeit als Wirtschafts-Motor gilt? Börsenkorrespondent Jens Korte gibt Antworten. Es ging viral: Ein 9-Jähriger Bub aus Italien hat den Mont Blanc bestiegen, einen der höchsten Berge Europas. Sein Vater hat das auf Social Media gepostet und viel Kritik geerntet. SRF-Journalist Frank Senn beschäftigt sich als Dokfilmer seit Jahrzehnten mit der Bergwelt. Er ordnet den Fall ein.

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In this episode we speak with Rafael Hidalgo who shares how endurance running can rewire your brain and transform your life. Rafael, who completed the 110 mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in 2023, believes the race's most meaningful story lies not at the front of the pack, but at the back—and deserves to be told. He unpacks this philosophy in his book, The Pain Cave: Start With Where, Not With Why. Links Mentioned in This Episode Speak with a MTA Running Coaching about your goals! We are here to help you get to the next level. MetPro.co -get a complimentary assessment and consultation with a metobolic coach. Altra Running -Altra shoes are designed with the Altra Fit, with room for your toes for comfort, balance, and strength. Use code MTA10 for 10% off. And Stay Out There with Altra. The Richmond Marathon in Richmond, Virginia. Sign up for the Capital One 8k! IQBAR brain and body-boosting bars, hydration mixes, and mushroom coffees. Their Ultimate Sampler Pack includes all three! Get 20% off plus FREE shipping. Just text “MTA” to 64000. The Pain Cave: Start With Where, Not With Why -book by Rafael Hidalgo

Armando Besio"Il bello dell'orrido"Prosegue con un calendario autunnale “Il bello dell'Orrido”, rassegna curata da Armando Besio che propone conversazioni con protagonisti della cultura contemporanea. Inserita nel progetto BAC Bellano Arte Cultura, la nuova stagione porta sul palco del Cinema di Bellano (a ingresso gratuito, ore 18.00) gli incontri con Andrea Vitali, Ben Pastor e Bruno Giussani: dialoghi aperti, nei quali il racconto individuale degli ospiti si intreccia a temi collettivi – poesia e quotidianità, passione per il thriller e per le storie noir, innovazioni tecnologiche e resistenza digitale – in un continuo rimando tra parola, poesia e pensiero critico. Proseguendo il filone dello scorso anno, sabato 26 settembre torna sul palco Andrea Vitali, con l'incontro “Le migliori poesie della nostra vita”: il confronto tra Vitali –  vero e proprio “ospite di casa” – e Besio si sposta dal romanzo (tema affrontato lo scorso anno) alla poesia. La scelta dei componimenti è guidata dall'introspezione, alterna sentimenti di dolore e perdita a desideri e speranza di consolazione. Un appuntamento che è ormai una felice consuetudine letteraria, supportata dalla conoscenza di lunga data dei due interlocutori. Nato a Bellano nel 1956, Andrea Vitali ha studiato medicina all'Università Statale di Milano e fino al 2008 ha lavorato come medico di base a Bellano. Dopo quel momento ha dedicato tutto il suo impegno alla scrittura, tornando eccezionalmente all'attività medica solo nel 2020 durante la pandemia. Come scrittore ha esordito nel 1989 con Il procuratore, premiato con il Montblanc, e da allora ha pubblicato senza interruzioni numerosi romanzi, principalmente con Garzanti e Rizzoli. Prolifico e costante, con la sua scrittura ha costruito una vera e propria “commedia umana”, quasi sempre ambientata a Bellano, dove ironia e malinconia si intrecciano: la grande Storia resta sullo sfondo, mentre il paese, con le sue contraddizioni, le sue singolarità e le sue relazioni personali e affettive, diventa il cuore pulsante dei suoi racconti. Accanto ai romanzi, Vitali ha sperimentato anche altre forme di scrittura: per l'editore Cinquesensi ha firmato diciannove libri, corredati dalle illustrazioni di Giancarlo Vitali, suo amico pittore (di cui è stato medico curante). A breve sulla RAI andrà in onda l'attesissima serie tv, ispirata ai suoi romanzi e alla figura del giovane maresciallo dei carabinieri Ernesto Maccadò. Si prosegue sabato 24 ottobre con una serata dedicata a Ben Pastor, scrittrice noir di fama internazionale e docente di scienze sociali nelle università americane: “La signora in giallo” è il titolo dell'incontro, che si concluderà con una gialla risottata in compagnia dell'autrice e del pubblico. L'occasione editoriale è data dall'arrivo in libreria de Lo specchio del pellegrino(Sellerio, 2026), ultimo romanzo con Martin Bora, uno dei personaggi più amati nei gialli storici pubblicati da Sellerio. Il protagonista è infatti un ufficiale della Wehrmacht tedesca, collaboratore dei servizi segreti, diviso tra l'obbedienza alla divisa e l'avversione agli orrori del nazismo. Ben Pastor, nata a Roma ma naturalizzata americana, è considerata tra le voci più autorevoli del giallo storico contemporaneo e una delle scrittrici capofila del cosiddetto "Postmodernismo", come attestato anche dall'apprezzamento e dagli studi del principale critico letterario statunitense, Fredric Jameson, della Duke University. L'appuntamento conclusivo, intitolato “Manuale di resistenza digitale”, saràsabato 28 novembre con Bruno Giussani, giornalista, podcaster e per vent'anni direttore europeo e curatore globale delle conferenze TED. Punto di partenza del dialogo con Besio è La mente sotto assedio. Come non lasciarsi manipolare nell'era dell'intelligenza artificiale (Edizioni Casagrande, 2026), un saggio che indaga la nostra complessa relazione con l'intelligenza artificiale e le tecnologie algoritmiche, capaci oggi di raccogliere i nostri dati, analizzare le nostre emozioni e persino falsificare la realtà attraverso testi, suoni e immagini ingannevoli. Giussani porta a riflettere su questi cambiamenti in atto, e propone un atteggiamento personale e collettivo di “resistenza digitale”, per imparare a decifrare questi meccanismi e a usare le nuove tecnologie senza esserne utilizzati.  Un incontro utile ad ampliare la visione sullo sviluppo della tecnologia e ad analizzare i suoi possibili utilizzi.  PERCORSO BAC BELLANO ARTE CULTURACome già negli scorsi anni, gli appuntamenti al cinema sono preceduti dal percorso accompagnato a cura dei Custodi del Patrimonio di Bellano alla scoperta dell'itinerario BAC: Orrido di Bellano, San Nicolao Arte Contemporanea, Museo Giancarlo Vitali, Chiesa di Santa Marta, Chiesa dei Santi Nazaro e Celso. Prenotazione obbligatoria a custodipatrimoniobellano@gmail.com Cinema di Bellano - inizio ore 18.00,ingresso libero.sabato 26 settembreAndrea Vitali Le migliori poesie della nostra vita sabato 24 ottobre Ben Pastor La signora in giallo sabato 28 novembre Bruno Giussani Manuale di resistenza digitale Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

UN PODCAST EN PARTENARIAT AVEC RUNMOTION COACHIls rêvaient tous les quatre de terminer leur premier UTMB.Dans cet épisode hors série de La Bande à D+, réalisé en partenariat avec RunMotion Coach, Nicolas Fréret donne la parole à quatre traileurs amateurs engagés sur la 23e édition de l'UTMB (174 km et 9700 m D+) : Guillaume Scellier, Loïc Angenard, Thibaud Hennequin et Yann Bellenguez.Quelques heures avant le départ, ils nous racontent leurs parcours, leurs rêves, leurs doutes et ce qui les a conduits jusqu'à Chamonix.Pour Guillaume, l'UTMB représente une revanche, vingt ans après un premier ultra terminé par un abandon sur la Diagonale des Fous. Loïc, ancien fumeur devenu ultra-traileur, a préparé son aventure depuis la Bretagne, en répétant les mêmes boucles pour accumuler du dénivelé. Thibaud s'est accroché à son projet UTMB au cours d'une année bouleversée par la maladie puis le décès de sa mère. Quant à Yann, son coup de foudre pour le Tour du Mont-Blanc a été si fort qu'il a fini par quitter la Somme pour venir vivre en Haute-Savoie.Tous les quatre ont réussi leur pari.Loïc a bouclé son premier UTMB en 32 h 18, Yann en 34 h 28, Guillaume en 40 h 31 et Thibaud en 44 h 32, sur une course remportée par Ben Dhiman (18 h 16) et Blandine L'Hirondel (21 h 52).Dès le dimanche, alors que la course n'était pas encore terminée, nous les avons retrouvé pour partager leur périple autour du Mont-Blanc : les kilomètres qui s'accumulent, les moments de grâce et de galère, les douleurs, le sommeil, les ravitaillements, les proches, les émotions et cette arrivée à Chamonix qu'ils imaginaient depuis des mois.Pour ce débrief, Nicolas est accompagné de Mélissa Mergoil, journaliste et animatrice du podcast PC Course, et de Romain Adam, co-fondateur de RunMotion Coach et lui-même finisher de cet UTMB 2026 (27 h 19).Et puisque Thibaud était encore sur les sentiers lorsque les autres se sont retrouvés autour du micro, vous entendrez également son récit après son arrivée, à seulement 2 h 13 de la barrière horaire.

Daniel Almonacid, del Centre Excursionista de Sitges, va finalitzar la setmana passada la Ultra Trail del Mont Blanc, la prova més clàssica d'aquesta especialitat. Sortint de Chamonix, 173 km i 9760 metres de desnivell positiu recorreguts en 36hores i 37 minuts, amb dues nits i travessant territori de tres països, França, Itàlia i Suïssa. El Dani començar amb les curses llargues fa una dècada amb companyia d'altres amics, i ara les ha convertit en una manera de viure que convina entrenament, nutrició i descans, amb un sol objectiu: acabar. L'entrada Daniel Almonacid: quan el repte és acabar ha aparegut primer a Radio Maricel.

The whole crew is back for a UTMB debrief! Hilary sits down with Rachel Drake, Leah Yingling, and Katie Asmuth to unpack their journeys around Mont Blanc, from the very different paths that got each of them to the start line to everything that unfolded over 100+ miles in the Alps.Rachel shares the emotional roller coaster that had her considering dropping at Courmayeur before turning her race around and ultimately finishing 25th. Leah talks about chasing big goals in an increasingly deep women's field, a nutrition mistake that changed the trajectory of her day, and finding an unexpected teammate in Amanda Basham for the final hours. And Katie reflects on arriving at UTMB with a completely different set of expectations, racing without the pressure to perform, and coming away with a renewed excitement for the sport.They get into the magic of the UTMB start, GI problems, motherhood and racing, learning to problem-solve when things go wrong, the complicated feeling of being both proud and disappointed with a result, and why all three walked away already thinking about what might come next.This is the full Trail Network UTMB recap: the good, the hard, the messy, and everything they learned along the way.This episode is edited and produced by the Sandyboy Productions Podcast Network.A big shout out to our sponsor ⁠⁠Precision Fuel & Hydration⁠⁠. Go to ⁠⁠pfandh.com⁠⁠ to crush your next race with a personalized fuel & hydration plan. Use code "TTNP15" at checkout.A special thank you to Osprey for supporting this episode. Visit Osprey.com to explore their incredible products!

Avec BLANDINE L'HIRONDEL, UGO FERRARI, LUDO COLLET, LOUISON COIFFET et FRED BOUSSEAUVoici le 26e épisode de la saison 5 (#106) de La Bande à D+, le talk-show du trail et de l'ultra-trail animé par Nicolas Fréret du média d'information Distances+.Place au GRAND DÉBRIEF DE L'UTMB 2026 ! Quelques jours après l'arrivée à Chamonix, la bande revient sur cette 23e édition de l'Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc

ASÍ FUE EL UTMB 2026: RÉCORD DE BEN DHIMAN + ENTREVISTA CON PABLO VILLA Y MIGUEL BENÍTEZ| FIND YOUR EVEREST PODCAST by Javi Ordieres Este programa está patrocinado por HOKA: https://findyoureverest.es/collections/hoka Hoka Tecton X 4: https://findyoureverest.es/products/zapatillas-hoka-tecton-x-4-black-neon-green Zapatilla de trail con doble placa de carbono paralela. Media y larga distancia en cualquier terreno. Mediasuela ProFly X de doble capa de espuma PEBA. Suela Vibram Megagrip Litebase con tacos de 4 mm. Upper de tejido Matryx. Peso 275 gramos, drop 5 mm. Y también por BAOUW: Gel Energético Baouw: https://findyoureverest.es/products/gel-energetico-baouw-caramelo-salado 30 gramos de hidratos de carbono. Ratioglucosa/fructosa 1:0,8. 300 mg de sodio añadido. Ingredientes 100% ecológicos. Formato stick de 44 g. Varios sabores. ️ En este episodio del Find Your Everest Podcast hablamos de: Ben Dhiman gana la UTMB 174K en 18:16:29 y se convierte en el primer hombre en bajar de las 19 horas en la vuelta al Mont Blanc. Blandine L'Hirondel hace historia en categoría femenina: primera mujer en bajar de las 22 horas y completa la triple corona de Chamonix (OCC, CCC y UTMB). Charlamos con Pablo Villa, 11º y mejor español en la UTMB, sobre su remontada constante hasta Chamonix. Charlamos con Miguel Benítez sobre su carrera y su podio en la OCC. Repasamos la mejor cosecha española de la historia en la OCC: dos bronces y cuatro top-10, con Miguel Benítez (3º) y Alain Santamaría (5º) como protagonistas. Greta García firma un impresionante TOP 10 en su primera OCC. SECCIÓN DE MATERIAL: TOP10 del recuento de zapatillas en OCC y CCC. DICCIONARIO FYE: En esta edición hablamos sobre las curiosidades de esta edición de UTMB.

Andrea Vitali"Il piede nella fossa"I casi del Maresciallo Ernesto MaccadòGarzanti Editorewww.garzanti.itAutunno 1931. Se non fosse per le stranezze di un paziente, la vita tra le corsie dell'ospedale Umberto I di Bellano scorrerebbe con la consueta routine. Invece Mentore Carcolati, il degente in questione, ha fatto una richiesta ben precisa, determinato ad abbandonare l'ospedale seduta stante se non verrà soddisfatta, anche a costo di mettere a repentaglio la propria salute e, non ultima, la reputazione del nosocomio. Così, il primario dottor Giulio Cesare Bombazza adesso è agitatissimo; suor Anastasia, suo braccio destro, corre di qui e di là senza sapere a che santo votarsi; il becchino Adelio Dilena, convocato dal Bombazza, fa il prezioso, calcolando se nel guaio in cui vorrebbero coinvolgerlo avrebbe o no da guadagnarci. Un fermento che ha cominciato ad affilare la curiosità inopportuna di qualche suora infermiera. Ma a parte tutto, quello che chiede il paziente è una cosa che si può fare? Perché va bene assecondare le sue comprensibili e umanissime ragioni, ma non sarà per caso un reato? Consultato di nascosto, il maresciallo Ernesto Maccadò se ne è lavato le mani: il primario e la suora facciano pure come vogliono, basta che non diano motivo di pettegolezzi o peggio; per il resto lui non vuole saperne nulla. Il tempo intanto stringe, perché l'intervento chirurgico cui il Carcolati deve essere sottoposto non può aspettare, e d'altra parte bisogna trovare un donatore per accontentare la sua richiesta capestro. Donatore di cosa? Di spazio, un angolino discreto, anche anonimo, purché in terra consacrata. Nell'attesa, ci si potrebbe affidare a un modernissimo frigidaire.Le storie che si intrecciano nella Bellano letteraria di Andrea Vitali non finiscono mai di stupire. Un luogo della fantasia che coglie sempre di sorpresa il lettore, trascinandolo in un vortice di vicende e personaggi inimmaginabili. Il piede nella fossa crea così un groviglio di destini che strappano più di un sorriso e al tempo stesso inteneriscono, avvolgendoci in quelle atmosfere lacustri tra le quali a ogni alba può davvero succedere qualunque cosa.Andrea Vitali è nato a Bellano nel 1956. Medico di professione, ha esordito nel 1989 con il romanzo Il procuratore, che si è aggiudicato l'anno seguente il premio Montblanc per il romanzo giovane. Nel 1996 ha vinto il premio letterario Piero Chiara con L'ombra di Marinetti. Approdato alla Garzanti nel 2003 con Una finestra vistalago (premio Grinzane Cavour 2004, sezione narrativa, e premio Bruno Gioffrè 2004), ha continuato a riscuotere ampio consenso di pubblico e di critica con i romanzi che si sono succeduti, costantemente presenti nelle classifiche dei libri più venduti, ottenendo, tra gli altri, il premio Bancarella nel 2006 (La figlia del podestà), il premio Ernest HemingwayDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

ON TODAY'S PROGRAM... ZACK COULD BEAT TOTO, AT HIS OWN GAME... IS NORRIS THE "A" TEAM AND, OSCAR THE "B" TEAM... CARLOS SAINZ...AS HE SIGNS ANOTHER CONTRACT WITH WILLIAMS HE KNOWS HIS CHAMPIONSHIP HOPES ARE GONE...AND FERNANDO SAYS...HONDA MAKING PROGRESS! I'M NOT GONA MISS IT! THIS WEEK'S NASIR HAMEED CORNER ANOTHER MOMENT IN F1 HISTORY...THE 2014 SEASON AND, THE CHAOS BETWEEN TWO DRIVERS! ...INTERVIEW WITH JOS AND MAX VERSTAPPEN DURING HIS SHORT FORMULA 3 SEASON! ANOTHER NASIR CLASSIC! OUR BONUS: TECH TALK WITH TIM....THE FRICS SYSTEM Front to Rear Inter-Connected Suspension. High Schooler Garcia Drives to First Career Win in Milwaukee  WEST ALLIS, Wis. (Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026) – Don't tell the principal, but Max Garcia may have earned the right to skip school Monday after his stirring first career INDY NXT by Firestone victory Sunday at the Milwaukee Mile. Series rookie Garcia earned his first win in his 15th career start in the INDYCAR development series, driving his No. 12 Abel Motorsports machine under the checkered flag .9430 of a second ahead of the No. 68 Cusick Morgan Motorsports car of JM Correa, who also earned a career-best finish. SEE: Race Results It's still uncertain whether Garcia, 17, will be in homeroom Monday morning at Christopher Columbus High School in Miami, where he just started his senior year. “Unbelievable,” Garcia said. “It's been such a tough year for all of us at Abel. We knew we had a good oval package. We knew we set the car up more for the race, and we knew in practice we could move through cars. It was all about timing it right and then getting through everyone. “I'm trying to convince my mom not to let me go to school. Surely, this is something to celebrate. A day off would be nice, right?” Rookie Jack Beeton continued his strong second half of the season by finishing third in the No. 45 HMD Motorsports machine, earning his third podium result in the last five races. Andretti Global's Max Taylor finished fourth in the No. 28 Susan G. Komen entry, while Nikita Johnson rounded out the top five in the No. 21 Cape Motorsports Powered by ECR car and took the lead in a sizzling championship fight with two races remaining. Johnson drove from 15th at the start to earn his eighth top-five finish of the season. He leads Enzo Fittipaldi by three points and third-place Tymek Kucharczyk by 29 entering the season-ending Grand Prix of Monterey doubleheader Sept. 5-6 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. It's tied for the fifth-closest race margin between the top two drivers with two races to go in series history. “I just kept my head down, pushed really hard and found lines that other people didn't find until about halfway through,” Johnson said. “I think that really helps, just playing around and trying different lines out when everybody was just stuck in one line. It was a really good points day for us.” Fittipaldi finished seventh in the No. 67 HMD Motorsports car, while Kucharczyk placed 12th in the No. 71 HMD Motorsports machine. Garcia started ninth but steadily worked his way through the field on the 1.015-mile oval. He passed Beeton for second on Lap 35 and pulled to within one second of leader and pole sitter Josh Pierson of Andretti Global, who had led by more than two seconds in the early going of the 90-lap race. Under pressure from Garcia, Pierson's quest for his first career victory unraveled on Lap 54 when he spun in the No. 29 Starchive Andretti car in Turn 2 while leading and hit the tire barrier inside that corner to end his race. Pierson led every lap to that point. Garcia inherited the lead and never surrendered it despite four restarts in the last 37 laps after the race went caution-free for the first 53 laps. Abel Motorsports driver Garcia was threatened only once on one of those restarts. Beeton looked under Garcia in Turn 1 on Lap 83 but couldn't complete the pass. On the next and final restart on Lap 86, Garcia left no doubt by getting a good jump and pulling away easily. Beeton and Correa raced side by side for second on that restart, allowing Garcia even more time and space out front. Correa eventually prevailed in that duel, one of 208 on-track passes, a track record for INDY NXT at Milwaukee. New heights at Rallye Mont-Blanc Morzine! After an extended summer break following the cancellation of Rallye Rouergue Rodez Aveyron Occitanie, the Clio Trophy France Asphalte resumes next week at Rallye Mont-Blanc Morzine. At this iconic French Rally Championship event, the return to action will be intense, with 39 crews ready to give it their all to reach the midseason mark in the lead and enter the home stretch in a strong position. Now in its seventh season with the fifth-generation Renault Clio, the Clio Trophy France Asphalte continues to prove its appeal, with a record 39 Clio Rally5 cars set to line up at Morzine this year. The Alpine mountains offer a magnificent backdrop for the competitors, who are eager to return to competition for the first time since mid-June. Leader in the general classification following his first victory in the Vosges, Paul Dachicourt (Fun Meca Sport) will look to consolidate his advantage in Morzine. Also leading the Junior category, where an official drive is up for grabs, the Pas-de-Calais native will target another victory at a rally that went his way last year, when he posted one of his best results despite a puncture on the opening special stage. His main rivals, however, are determined to prevent him from pulling away. Winner of the opening round at Le Touquet, Maxence Potard (Gilbert Compétition) will rely on his experience in the Alps to bounce back after his crash in the Vosges. The member of the FFSA's Collectif France Rallye isn't the only one with this objective, as Romain Brun will attempt to return to the sharp end of the order after a difficult weekend in the Vosges. Several competitors will try to capitalise on their knowledge of the roads to close the gap to the leaders. Having secured four podium finishes with Clio Rally5 at Morzine since 2020, Romain Fostier (David Auto Compétition) is a serious contender for victory in this demanding event. He will also seek to increase his lead over his rivals in the Gentlemen class: Pascal Bérard, Jacques Bourrat, Franck Giraud (Lycée Roger Claustre) and Michaël Durigon, who returns to the Clio Trophy France Asphalte for his 22nd start in the event. Jérôme Janny (David Auto Compétition) will equally rely on his experience to build on his strong start to the season, as will Yohan Roumieux (JLA Rally), who finished in the top ten last year, and Maxime Chagot (LCS Location), a two-time class winner at Morzine. Fabien Combe, who has finished 10th twice this year, and Christophe Truchet, 2025 Clio Full Challenge winner, will be outsiders to watch in their Rallye Mont-Blanc Morzine debut. Behind the trio of Paul Dachicourt, Maxence Potard and Romain Brun, other Junior drivers have high hopes. Following his first podium finish in the Vosges, Clément Didier (JLA Rally) will look to build on that form in the Alps, where Alex Florenson (PH Sport), who finished fifth a year ago, will target a trip to the podium next Saturday. Also worth keeping an eye on are Thomas Santiago (LCS Location), Louis Gass (PH Sport), Néo Rivallant (Fun Meca Sport), Oliver Sørensen, Thomas Van Outryve (LCS Location) and Maxence Girard (CHL Sport Auto), all in search of valuable points. Meanwhile, Tom Le Jossec (Rageau Sport Location) and Alexis Poso (Salvi Compétition) will aim to stay in contention on their Mont-Blanc debut with Clio Rally5. Back in action after his retirement at Le Touquet, Loan Guibal (Salvi Compétition) wants to turn his obvious speed into stage wins and a strong result in a rally he is discovering for the first time, just like Léo Véricel, Louis Bottin (PH Sport) and Alfred Sablonnière. Clémentine Benoit (Sarrazin Motorsport) will defend her lead in the women's category and face Lilou Boulangé (Gazou Compétition), a rookie this season behind the wheel after co-driving for her father Arnaud in 2025. Nicolas Paviet-Roche and Mathieu Duclos will make their first appearance of the year in familiar surroundings. Killian Marry will also return to the service park to tackle Alpine special stages for the first time – stages that several newcomers know well, notably William Gagnière, Paul Missillier and Vincent Chagot, Maxime's brother. Lastly, Grégory Scotto La Chianca will make his Clio Trophy France Asphalte debut, as will Robin Duarte, Arthur Guillaume and Tanguy Rubin-Delanchy, who have all cut their teeth with Clio Rally5 in the French Rally Cup. The 78th Rallye Mont-Blanc Morzine will feature 12 timed sectors covering a total of 196.04 kilometres over a 493.87 km route. On Friday, the action gets underway on the Montriond-le-Lac – Avoriaz stage, followed by two loops comprising Bonneville – Glières Val de Borne and Les Clefs – La Clusaz, then a single run on the Morzine – Montriond-le-Lac stage. On Saturday, the crews will tackle Morillon – Samoëns, Samoëns – Morzine and La Côte d'Arbroz – Taninges three times. The final ten special stages will each award up to five “Jean Ragnotti Performer” points to the five fastest drivers, in addition to the standard finishing points. Ten Clio Rally3s, six Clio Rally4s and nine Clio Rally5s outside the trophy will also be at the start of the event.

Invitées: Tatjana Bill et Roberta Antonini Philippe. Les courses dʹultra endurance connaissent ces dernières années un succès fulgurant, à l'instar de l'Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc. Il y a ceux et celles qui font la course, et celles et ceux qui sont les partenaires de vie de ces personnes, qui les assistent au quotidien et pendant la course. Comment vivent-elles la passion de leur partenaires? Est-ce une fierté, un fardeau? Tribu reçoit Tatjana Bill et Roberta Antonini Philippe. La première est chercheuse à lʹInstitut des sciences du sport de lʹUniversité de Lausanne (UNIL), où elle réalisé sa thèse sur le monde de lʹultra-endurance chez les amateurs. La seconde est maitre dʹenseignement et de recherche en psychologie du sport à lʹUNIL. Toutes deux ont cosigné une étude sur les partenaires des coureurs.

Send us Fan MailUTMB week brings out the most honest kind of sports conversation: we have a stacked start list, a million storylines, and almost no certainty once the race hits the high climbs and the long night. Nick Tusa joins me for a focused UTMB and CCC preview where we argue through the men's and women's fields, call our shots, and explain what we think actually decides Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc when everyone is fit.On the men's side, we dig into the big questions around Jim Walmsley and Kilian Jornet lining up after Western States DNFs and why UTMB is a totally different test with more hiking, longer climbs, and way less room for error. We talk about Caleb Olsen's upside as a mountain athlete, John Alban's winning profile, and why names like Josh Wade, Hannes Namberger, Zach Miller, and Theodore Diente sit right on that edge between a career day and a hard blow-up. Then we make a clear call on who we think wins, including the case for Ben Diemon and the mental side of “closing” when the podium is in reach.On the women's side, it turns into one of the best matchups in trail running: Ruth Croft returning as defending UTMB champion against Courtney Dauwalter, who is always capable of rewriting what we think is possible. We also hit the depth behind them with Marianne Hogan, Abby Hall, Rachel Drake, and more, plus the wild card factor of limited UTMB experience across parts of the field.We wrap with a CCC preview full of redemption and breakthrough potential, including why certain runners look ready to finally get over the hump. If you love UTMB predictions, ultrarunning strategy, and smart race coverage, hit subscribe, share this with your trail crew, and leave a rating and review so more people find the show.Use code SteepStuff for 20% your cart on Sidas.usFollow James on IG - @jameslaurielloFollow the Steep Stuff Podcast on IG - @steepstuff_podFollow Sidas USA on IG - @sidas_usa

Probablement le plus anticonformiste des coureurs.Depuis plus de 10 ans, Alexandre Boucheix est chef de projet chez JCDecaux le jour et superstar de l'ultra-trail la nuit.Son nom de scène : Casquette Verte.Aujourd'hui connu comme le loup blanc dans le monde du trail, il rassemble plus de 140 000 personnes sur son compte Instagram sous ce nom, documentant ses courses et ses aventures avec sa fameuse casquette verte.Son approche de la course est complètement délirante. Il refuse toute méthode ou programme et se concentre sur le volume : “Jamais de fractionné. Je ne m'entraîne pas, je cours.”Auparavant la course le rendait indifférent, il préférait répéter 3000 fois une figure de skateboard plutôt que de sortir courir.L'aventure commence par un acte manqué, après une soirée arrosée. Alexandre candidate pour son premier ultra-trail, La Diagonale des Fous : 175 km avec plus de 10 000 mètres de dénivelé sur l'île de la Réunion.Il parvient alors à entrer dans le top 100. Depuis, il multiplie les projets, tous plus insensés les uns que les autres.Finir dans le top 10 de la Diagonale des Fous. Faire 100 km autour du Parc des Princes en tournant en rond. Courir 490 km dans le désert d'Atacama. Inventer l'Ultra-trail de Montmartre. Et bien d'autres projets pirates.Alexandre nous livre ses meilleurs conseils et sa non-méthode :La stratégie pour améliorer sa récupérationRendre la course facile et agréableLa fonctionnalité cachée de StravaSes plus grandes erreurs de nutritionLe rapport entre les sponsors et les influenceurs dans le monde du sportLes coulisses de ses ultra-trails et de ses entraînements (qui n'en sont pas !)Un épisode inspirant, motivant, avec un personnage aussi résilient que punk qui propose une approche alternative à la course longue et au trail. Préparez vos baskets, il vous sera impossible de rester cloué à votre chaise après cette écoute.Vous faites une sortie : partagez-la sur les réseaux en mentionnant le compte GDIY et retrouvez-moi sur Strava.D'ailleurs, en programmant la rediffusion je suis retombé sur le Club GDIY ! Il y a actuellement 278 membres, si on arrive à 1000, on reprend l'activité dessus avec des petites exclus toutes les semaines.Comme lors de la première diffusion de cet épisode en août 2024, Alex sera au depart de l'UTMB dans quelques jours. Suivez-le sur les réseaux pour découvrir son classement : Instagram, Strava, Linkedin.TIMELINE00:00:00 : Briller sans être le meilleur00:14:25 : Comment Alexandre a commencé à courir ?00:25:24 : Le refus des programmes pour la beauté du geste00:40:19 : Lui c'est une petite biche et moi j'ai un fusil00:47:15 : Le plus bel acte manqué d'ivresse : les dossards00:57:03 : Gérer sa récupération, les blessures et les lendemains de course : suis-je un bourrin ?01:02:03 : Désert, Diagonale des fous, Montmartre01:15:28 : Comment se motiver et courir par plaisir01:24:46 : La fonctionnalité la plus sous-côtée de Strava01:29:16 : La plus grosse erreur en nutrition lors des trails01:38:36 : Jusqu'où peut-on pousser le corps ?01:52:06 : Combien gagne Casquette Verte auprès des sponsors ?02:10:29 : Les moments de grâce02:24:11 : Urine, imperméabilité et bâtons02:37:18 : Quelle responsabilité sur les réseaux sociaux ?02:47:16 : Les projets caritatifs de Casquette Verte02:53:46 : La fuite à VarennesLes anciens épisodes de GDIY mentionnés :#300 - Mathieu Blanchard - Ultratrail et Aventure - Commencer le running à 26 ans et devenir une légende de l'ultratrail#401 - Emmanuel Macron - Président de la République - Les décisions les plus lourdes se prennent seul#178 - Kilian Jornet - Alpinisme & Ultra-trail - Ne pense pas au résultat, l'objectif c'est de progresser#203 - Catherine Poletti - UTMB - Changer l'histoire du sport et du Mont-Blanc#396 - Gérard Saillant - Institut du Cerveau — Le chirurgien de Ronaldo, Schumacher, du PSG et de la FIA#338 - Gad Elmaleh - On est tous le blond de quelqu'un#320 - Michael Horvath - Strava - Vous êtes ce que vous faites chaque jour#52 Stéphanie Gicquel - Visualiser pour ne jamais abandonner#181 - Olivier Goy - La vie, la maladie, le dépassement : memento moriNous avons parlé de :Casquette Verte YoutubeOVNIJCDecauxLa Diagonale des Fous (Grand Raid de la Réunion)UTMB : Ultra-Trail du Mont-BlancRonald BouteilleNicolas Spiess (Running addict)Campus coachEcoTrail 80km ParisTrail dans le désert d'Atacama (vidéo YouTube)TRAIL DI U MONTE CARDUUltra Trail MontMartreSalomonVisites du Paris secret de Lorànt DeutschStravanäakUgo FerrariSuuntoSeen creative contentULTRA 01La MartingaleLa création du Téléthon - Bernard BarataudZEventLes recommandations de lecture : L'Art de la Guerre de Sun TzuCyrano de Bergerac d'Edmond RostandAutoportrait de l'auteur en coureur de fond de Haruki MurakamiVous souhaitez sponsoriser Génération Do It Yourself ou nous proposer un partenariat ?Contactez mon label Orso Media via ce formulaire.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Episode 62 opens with quick hits on T-Mobile's satellite phone service and a run of Alps headlines — climbers requesting paid rescue after ignoring a Mont Blanc closure, a family of 36 rescued in the Austrian high country, and Kilian Jornet's viral post on the range's fast-changing climate — before Sam and Adrian sit down with Cody Townsend and Tommy Caldwell to talk through their spring traverse of Norman's 13.Norman's 13 links the Sierra's thirteen 14,000-foot peaks from Mt. Langley to North Palisade, a route of over 100 miles and 40,000 vertical feet that had never been done in winter. Townsend, a self-described "5.9 climber and 5.14 skier," recruited Caldwell — the inverse — after cold-emailing him with the idea; a day of simul-climbing at Lover's Leap and some recon skiing on Mt. Sill convinced them their risk tolerances matched well enough to commit. Traveling south to north over eight days with cameraman Bjarne Salén, they broke the route into three distinct stretches: a technical run through the Whitney-area peaks, a 50-mile bushwhack and river-forge through John Muir Trail sequoia groves, and a final rope-and-crampons push across the notoriously exposed Palisades Traverse.The trip nearly broke both of them. Townsend fought a lung infection and food poisoning through the early days, and a 25-hour closing push through isothermic snow — on a catastrophically failed ski boot — tested everyone's limits. The two talk candidly about reading the line between suffering and real danger, the odd role reversal of a rock climber staying calm on exposed skiing while a skier plunge-steps nervously on rock, and how the trip changed the way Townsend plans traverses going forward. A film on the expedition, shot largely on iPhone after their camera batteries mysteriously died, is due out this fall.Follow our podcast on Instagram @duffelshufflepodcast where you can learn more about us and our guests. Visit our website at www.duffelshufflepodcast.com and join our mailing list.The Duffel Shuffle Podcast is supported by Alpenglow Expeditions, an internationally renowned mountain guide service based in Lake Tahoe, California. Visit https://alpenglowexpeditions.com/ or follow @alpenglowexpeditions on Instagram to learn more.

Si certains riverains chérissent l'Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB), dont la 23e édition a lieu cette semaine à Chamonix, d'autres expriment leur exaspération face à un évènement qui dépasse les capacités d'accueil de la ville, selon eux.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

[Attention, certaines scènes racontées peuvent heurter la sensibilité des personnes fragiles.] Le 6 août 2020, Amandine, 13 ans, meurt affamée et sous les coups de sa mère Sandrine Pissara. Sandrine Pissara a cinq enfants mais Amandine, sa quatrième, elle ne l'aime pas. Elle la déteste tellement qu'elle la frappe, l'affame, l'insulte et l'humilie depuis qu'elle est toute petite. En janvier 2025, Sandrine Pissara est jugée coupable de « violences » et d'« actes de torture ou de barbarie ayant entraîné la mort sans intention de la donner » et condamnée en janvier 2025 à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité avec une période de sûreté de vingt ans. Dans cette nouvelle saison Caroline Nogueras vous raconte cette terrible affaire. Une mère tyrannique Dans le village de Montblanc, on ne comprend pas. Comment une enfant peut-elle être traitée de la sorte ? Qui plus est par Sandrine. Ici, tout le monde la connaît. Sa boutique de manucure est installée au centre de la commune. Aucune cliente n'a jamais eu à se plaindre, ni de son travail, ni de son attitude. Bien au contraire. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Capucine Lebot Voix : Caroline Nogueras Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[Attention, certaines scènes racontées peuvent heurter la sensibilité des personnes fragiles.] Le 6 août 2020, Amandine, 13 ans, meurt affamée et sous les coups de sa mère Sandrine Pissara. Sandrine Pissara a cinq enfants mais Amandine, sa quatrième, elle ne l'aime pas. Elle la déteste tellement qu'elle la frappe, l'affame, l'insulte et l'humilie depuis qu'elle est toute petite. En janvier 2025, Sandrine Pissara est jugée coupable de « violences » et d'« actes de torture ou de barbarie ayant entraîné la mort sans intention de la donner » et condamnée en janvier 2025 à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité avec une période de sûreté de vingt ans. Dans cette nouvelle saison Caroline Nogueras vous raconte cette terrible affaire. 28 kg pour 1,55 m Nous sommes dans l'Hérault, au milieu des grandes vacances, le 6 août 2020. Dans le village de Montblanc, situé entre Béziers et Montpellier, il fait bon vivre. Vers 17h, une ambulance du SMUR vient troubler la quiétude du quartier. Elle fonce à toute allure dans une rue étroite située derrière l'église. Les secours s'arrêtent devant les murs en crépis blanc. C'est ici, au numéro 14. Ils ont été appelés quelques minutes plus tôt pour une urgence : une adolescente de 13 ans aurait fait un arrêt cardio-respiratoire. Un podcast Bababam Originals Ecriture : Capucine Lebot Voix : Caroline Nogueras Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dans la saison 3 de Curieux de Sciences, lors de leur visite à la Station marine de Concarneau, les enfants découvraient les poissons des abysses. Cette année, Louise, Hugo et Séréna se demandent s'il y a des montagnes sous-marines. Au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, ils rencontrent Mathieu Roskosz qui leur explique qu'au fond des océans, dans un bouillonnement de vie, des montagnes et des volcans naissent et grandissent depuis la nuit des temps ! Et qu'on en retrouve la trace... au sommet de l'Everest et du Mont-Blanc ! Grâce et les Petits Curieux de sciences – Louise, Hugo et Séréna – ont rencontré Mathieu Roskosz, géologue et cosmochimiste au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.  “Curieux de sciences” est une aventure sonore qui entraîne les enfants dans l'univers fascinant de la science. Elle dévoile la rigueur et les surprises qui accompagnent les découvertes scientifiques, tout en stimulant l'imaginaire et la curiosité.  Direction éditoriale : Bertrand Fichou. Comité scientifique du Muséum : Ronan Allain, Jean-Jacques Bahain. Journaliste et hoste : Grâce Leplat. Chercheur invité : Mathieu RoskoszRéalisation : Benoît Laur. Musiques : Emmanuel Viau et Benoît Laur. Création visuelle : Camille Ferrari.Directeur de production : Julien Moch. Production exécutive : Billy the Cast. Assistante de production : Laudine Storelli.Coordination Muséum : Claire Gonçalves. Productrice audio Bayard Jeunesse : Hélène Loiseau. Merci à Cécilia Cally, institutrice de la classe de CM1-CM2 de l'école Félix Faure à Paris, aux enfants et au directeur de l'école, M. Jacques Tisserand. Merci à Brice Molinelli, gestionnaire de l'unité mixte de recherche MCAM, CNRS-MNHN, qui a accueilli l'équipe et les enfants dans la merveilleuse Salle des collections du laboratoire de chimie du MNHN.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Send us Fan MailChamonix has a way of making trail running feel like the center of the universe, and Sydney Peterson is soaking it up while she can. After stacking a string of brutally competitive European races, she joins me for a catch-up from the Alps where recovery, team time, and UTMB week energy all collide. We talk about what it's like to live among people who treat mountains like a daily ritual, from running vests at the grocery store to the quiet confidence that comes from being surrounded by athletes chasing big days outside.Sydney breaks down what's happening at Brooks trail camp, why UTMB recon is such a powerful advantage, and how scouting now can set up future goals like Marathon du Mont Blanc or an OCC debut. We also get into ETC and why it's such a smart way to experience the UTMB scene: you race early, then you get the rest of the week to cheer, crew, and actually enjoy the spectacle without carrying race-week nerves the whole time.The deeper thread is how she's building her season on purpose. Sydney explains why she's choosing courses that attack her weak points, especially technical downhill running and the mental intensity of deep fields. Then we look ahead to the Golden Trail Series final in South Korea, a course she describes with a “healthy amount of scared” and a lot of excitement to learn. We close with an incredible story about trail legend Stevie Kremer and how mentorship can shape not just results, but an entire career. If you enjoy the conversation, subscribe, share it with a trail friend, and leave a rating and review so we can keep telling these stories.Follow Sydney Petersen on IG - @sydneypetersen33Use code SteepStuff for 20% your cart on Sidas.usFollow James on IG - @jameslaurielloFollow the Steep Stuff Podcast on IG - @steepstuff_podFollow Sidas USA on IG - @sidas_usa

Comment fait-on évoluer une marque née en 1906 sans la trahir ? C'est le défi qu'a relevé Vincent Montalescot, vice-président marketing de Montblanc, mon invité de cet épisode.Rien ne le prédestinait forcément à l'univers de l'écriture : originaire du Limousin, passionné de sport, il rêvait de travailler pour une grande marque. Il fait ses classes à l'agence Havas Sport, passe 17 ans chez Adidas, puis rejoint Montblanc en 2017 avec une mission aussi belle qu'ambitieuse : faire vivre une maison centenaire avec son temps.J'ai choisi de repartager avec vous cette conversation enregistrée en 2020, parce que c'est un véritable cours de marketing dont les principes n'ont pas bougé d'un pouce :Ne pas chercher à réinventer la roue, mais puiser dans les racines historiques de sa marque, avec humilitéFormuler une mission simple et limpide, car en matière de marque la complexité est un aveu d'échecPorter ce renouveau en interne et faire adhérer les équipes, par la pédagogie et la répétitionSur la fin, on aborde des sujets plus personnels : concilier une carrière ambitieuse et une vie de famille épanouie, l'importance des temps de silence, et le besoin d'engagements qui ont du sens au-delà du travail.Ce qui m'a frappée chez Vincent, c'est son amour du produit et de la marque : une force tranquille, élégante et réfléchie, à l'image de la maison qu'il fait rayonner. Une belle leçon de marketing, et de vie.Bonne écoute ✨Chapitrage 00:00 Introduction02:02 Le marketing du luxe et le virage lifestyle de Montblanc08:24 Faire évoluer une marque de 1906 sans la trahir18:48 Choisir ses ambassadeurs et embarquer les équipes32:01 Ses racines, le sport et 17 ans chez Adidas44:42 Luxe ou grand public, et concilier vie pro et perso52:18 Le crible du Podcast58:16 Les livres recommandés par Vincent MontalescotNotes et références de l'épisode ✨ Pour retrouver Vincent :Sur LinkedIn✨ Pour retrouver les livres cités par Vincent :Open, d'André AgassiQu'est-ce qu'un chef, du Général Pierre de Villiers*Liens affiliés FNACHébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.