In the winter of 2014, Steve House teamed up with Kilian Jornet, one of the world’s most accomplished endurance athletes, to ski the San Joaquin Couloir near Telluride. Over breakfast after, the concept for a first-of-its-kind training book was born. Training for the…
Wild Running, Britain’s 200 Greatest Trail Runs Have you read the review of this book in the February issue of Outdoor Fitness? You can benefit from the generous offer of 20% off the book, using the code OF2019 when you…
Expedition from the Backdoor documents Yvette Primrose’s incredible feat of personal strength and tenacity in the face of physical and social limitations. Tracing a 1000 km walk along footpaths, towpaths and mountain trails from Shropshire to Knoydart in Scotland, what…
Imagine having extraordinary intellect, athleticism, and talent in combination with the unwavering confidence that all of your dreams would come true. Then envision what it would be like to have all of that decimated with the force of a 40,000-ton…
Kilian Jornet, the world’s fastest mountain climber, ultrarunner, and ski mountaineer, brings his epic mountain project to life in the highly anticipated US edition of Summits of My Life: Daring Adventures on the World’s Greatest Peaks. Over his five-year challenge,…
It was a cold Wednesday evening and I was one of around 350 people racing to get a good seat for a lecture. Yes, a lecture. If University had included more lectures like this, I’d have been on time, awake…
Paul Larkins takes a look at James Witts's new book The Science of the Tour de France
Interview with Jonathan Bennett, author of Around the Coast in Eighty Waves Living in an old, unheated campervan for fourteen months – not to mention through the coldest winter in thirty years – Jonathan Bennett travelled clockwise all the way…
Damian Hall talks to Julie Welch whose books include 26.2: Running The London Marathon and the wonderful Out On Your Feet: The Hallucinatory World of Hundred-Mile Walking. DH: Why do a challenge walk? JW: A question I frequently ask myself, particularly when standing in…
Have you given wild swimming a go? Peters takes you on a poetic journey of the Borderlands with Dip… Surfacing from depression, Andrew Fusek Peters decides to swim his way back to happiness. But indoor pools and lidos do not…