[:en]Last Wednesday at 2:06 am under a full moon James Donald and I set out on the 8day trek at Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia. Our plane was leaving in just 52 hours. We hoped to run it in one continuous push, carrying all our own equipment and be back at the Camping Torres […]
[:en]This morning I got an email. “Matt Maynard – Muchas gracias por tan linda dedicatoria. Es un regalo muy apreciado y muchas muchas gracias. Divina la nota!” – Elisa Forti Translation “Matt Maynard – Thank you so much for this beautiful keepsake. It’s a greatly appreciated present and thank you so so much. Wonderful article!” – […]
[:en] On a miserable winter’s morning in Marshfield, England at around 10am in early 2014 our friendship was sealed. We’d been running through driving rain and sodden trails since before dawn. Soaked to the skin, we’d been flexing our fingers back and forth to keep the circulation going since the first climb by moonlight onto Little […]
[:es] “Born in Switzerland” dice el mensaje cosido en los shorts (“Nacido en Suiza”). Del país que nos trajo el alusa foil, computadores y el Swiss Army Knife – no deberíamos estar sorprendidos que estos shorts sean ligeros, de diseño inteligente y listos para todo. Recibí estos shorts a mediados de invierno para hacer un […]
[:en] Connections “I call it my catharsis” he tells me. Tito is gesturing to his stomach with clenched fists, describing the feeling that overcame him whilst running the trails of the 8th Natural Wonder of the World. “It’s like PHHFFF!” he thrusts out his fingers “and there’s something firing out of me, connecting me to […]
[:en] A Long Shot If the Patagonian International Marathon was a movie, it would start like this: An extreme long shot of our planet, far out in space. “Seis, Cinco, Cuatro” a Spanish voice would say and we’d zoom in, the continent of South America flaring up, the Amazon leading our eye south, the Andes […]