Aug 14 2022
Lizzy Hawker
Our friend Billi Bierling, mountaineer and journalist, came to the 2021 UTMR to volunteer and to race. Here’s what she has to say about it! Billi we are looking forward to welcoming you back and wish you good luck for your 2022 race! The COVID-19 pandemic was tough for runners all over the world. Even […]
Aug 22 2021
UTMR Admin
Schon wieder ändert der Europaweg seine Route! Diesmal wurde die Strecke verbessert, um den Aufstieg zur Europahütte zu erleichtern und weniger Zeit auf den alten Europaweg-Balkonrouten zu verbringen, aber immer noch eine schöne Landschaft zu bieten. Sie können den GPS-Track (und die Google Earth KML-Datei unten) herunterladen.
Jul 11 2021
Lizzy Hawker
The iRunFar introduction for David reads „David Laney was born and raised in Oregon, and that just about covers it. David runs for Nike Trail and coaches with Trails and Tarmac. You can follow him from mountain tops to donut shops on his Instagram account.“ With numerous wins to his name, a 3rd (2015) and 4th (2016) place […]
Mrz 16 2021
Lizzy Hawker
Brennan is a trail and fell runner based in Keswick in the Lake District of the UK. He lives with his wife Kat and step daughter in the shadow of his local fell (small English mountain), Latrigg. He is currently studying Sports Science at Manchester Metropolitan University, and with his wife has a coaching business […]
Feb 23 2021
Lizzy Hawker
We were set to welcome elite runner, Marián Priadka, from the Slovak Ultra Trail Team to the 2020 edition of the 170 km Ultra Tour! We’re really happy that he’ll try again for 2021. We asked him some questions to get to know a little more about him…. Q. Can you remember how you first heard […]
Feb 21 2021
Lizzy Hawker
We like also to heartily welcome back our loyal runners! Philippe Aurelle, La Capretta, will be participating for the 6th time at UTMR. Thank you Philippe & see you again in September! Philippe’s participation at UTMR: the 2016 edition 116 km Ultramarathon, the 170 km Ultra Tour in 2017, 2018 & 2019, the Grächen Berglauf in […]
Feb 17 2021
Lizzy Hawker
For the last few years we have partnered with Kikourou, an endurance sports community in France, to offer a competition for a free place for UTMR. This year Xavier Jacquel was the lucky winner and will be competing in the UTMR 100 km 3 Passes ultra. We asked him some questions to see how he […]
Feb 12 2021
Lizzy Hawker
In 2020 we invited Julien Gilleron, a journalist „Trans-Versale“ who writes for Wider Magazine and Alpinemag amongst others, as a media participant in UTMR. Of course with cancellation of the longer events we extended his invitation to our Grächen Berglauf, which ended up as a happy, sunny day of mountain running even while adhering to […]
Jan 28 2021
Lizzy Hawker
We welcome Darcy Piceu to the 2021 Ultra Tour Monte Rosa to compete with Jasmin Paris, Roman Evarts, Tom Owens, Matthieu Girard and others! Darcy has been running ultramarathons for 20 years and has completed over 103 ultra races. Some of her notable accomplishments include 3 time Hardrock 100 winner, 3 time Wasatch Front 100 […]
Jan 27 2021
Lizzy Hawker
Back in 2018, Roman Evarts was a UTMB Podium Finisher and then he chose the 2019 UTMR 100 mile ultra trail for his ’next big challenge‘. Of course in 2019 the weather gods intervened and the race was halted in Gressoney, around the halfway mark. He says he is ’stoked‘ to return and finally do […]
Jan 25 2021
Lizzy Hawker
The 2018 winner of the 170 km Ultra Tour (32:59:33), Matthieu Girard, is returning for 2021! Here he gives his thoughts about UTMR and offers some insight for 2021 race competitors. Thank you Matthieu & best of luck, see you in September! N.B Matthieu is co-president of Trail Verbier St-Bernard a beautiful set of races at the […]
Jan 22 2021
Lizzy Hawker
We’re very happy to welcome Jasmin Paris as one of the elite women running the 170 km Ultra Tour in 2021! Jasmin is British and is extremely well known in Great Britain as a fell runner, and became known on the international stage as a sky runner after her victory in the 2016 Skyrunner World Series (Sky Extreme) and bronze medal […]
Mai 11 2020
Lizzy Hawker
Ultra Tour Monte Rosa, 10th May 2020. It is with great regret that we announce the cancellation of the 2020 edition of Ultra Tour Monte Rosa. We have carefully considered the current pandemic situation and the risk that holding a race like UTMR would present to our runners, volunteers and hosts. We take this decision […]
Mrz 02 2020
Lizzy Hawker
Wir freuen uns, dass Sacha ein Botschafter der UTMR auf den Wegen und in den sozialen Medien sein wird! Vielen Dank, Sacha & wir freuen uns darauf, Sie im September 2020 wieder begrüßen zu dürfen. Sie finden Sacha auf facebook, wenn Sie ihn kontaktieren möchten! Sacha (Turboschnecke) Mijatov Geboren: 1971 Heimatstadt: Brüssel, Belgien. Über […]
Feb 28 2020
UTMR Admin
A big thank you to all of the children who stepped on to the start line for the 2019 Kinderrennen event at the UTMR in Grächen. It was 100% effort from the start to the finish as you might expect if you’ve ever seen a children’s running race. There were two distances, 2 km and […]
Feb 24 2020
Lizzy Hawker
Unser Gewinner der 170 km Ultra Tour 2018, Matthieu Girard, kehrt für 2020 zurück! Hier ist, was er über UTMR denkt. Vielen Dank Matthieu & viel Glück, bis September! N.B Matthieu ist Co-Präsident von Trail Verbier St-Bernard eine schöne Reihe von Rennen Anfang Juli am anderen Ende des Wallis. Viel wert einen Versuch! —- Ich […]
Feb 04 2020
UTMR Admin
Vielen Dank an den Fotografen Hervé Le Gac und Trails Endurance, die sich die Zeit und Mühe genommen haben, über die Ultra Tour Monte Rosa 2019 zu berichten und den unglücklichen Wetterbedingungen zu trotzen, denen wir ausgesetzt waren. Wir hoffen, dass Sie für mehr der sonnigen Tage zurückkommen werden, die wir öfter erwarten!
Jan 26 2020
Lizzy Hawker
Wir freuen uns, einen Eliteläufer, Marián Priadka, vom slowakischen Ultra Trail Team auf der 170 km langen UTMR begrüßen zu dürfen! Hier ist, was er zu sagen hat ….. Ich begann mit dem Laufen als Training und alternative Aktivität für das MTB, was mich nach mehreren Jahren Pause wieder zum Sport zurückgebracht hat. Nach meinen […]
Jan 21 2020
Lizzy Hawker
Einer unserer früheren UTMR-Konkurrenten, David Byrne, hat gerade ein Buch über Ultralauf veröffentlicht, das ein Kapitel über das UTMR-Rennen Etappe im Jahr 2015 enthält. Er sagt: „Für mich war die Ausgabe 2015 großartig, da sie eine Chance war, einen neuen Standort zu sehen und mich selbst voranzubringen, was mir seither das Vertrauen gegeben hat, noch […]
Dez 21 2019
Lizzy Hawker
Wir hatten gute Nachrichten vom Vorstand von „Hardrock“! Die Finisher unseres 170-km-Rennens im Jahr 2020 werden sich für die Hardrock-Lotterie 2021 qualifizieren. Für alle, die noch nie von Hardrock gehört haben, ist es ein 100-Meilen-Ultramarathon in der San Juan Range im Süden Colorados (USA). Hier ist, was ein 5-facher Finisher des Hardrock, Jason Poole, dazu […]
Aug 10 2019
UTMR Admin
https://www.graechenberglauf.ch/europaweg/ Der Europaweg von Grächen zur Europahütte hat sich seit August 2018 verändert. Eine neue Route wurde im Juni 2019 eröffnet. Die neue Route hat zwei Varianten, eine härtere und eine leichtere. Alle folgenden Informationen dienen nur als Referenz und sind ohne Gewähr! Variante eins Erster Spaziergang aus Grachen heraus nach Süden auf dem Weg […]
Jun 03 2019
Lizzy Hawker
Ida Nilsson braucht keine Einführung mit einer Reihe von siegreichen Auftritten bei einigen der weltweit am meisten verehrten Berg-Ultras! Die schwedische Athletin hatte eine herausragende Saison 2018, darunter ihr dritter (gerader) Sieg bei Transvulcania (73km), ein Sieg bei Maratòn Alpina Zegama-Aizkorri (42km) & ein zweiter Platz in der Golden Trail Series. Ihren ersten Vorgeschmack […]
Mrz 31 2019
Lizzy Hawker
La Sportiva Elitesportler, Christian Insam, kehrt zurück, um auf den Spuren des Monte Rosa unerledigte Aufgaben zu erledigen! Viel Glück, wir sehen uns im September! Nach meinem Rückzug im letzten Jahr bei km 120 war mein erster Gedanke, dass ich definitiv zurückkehren würde, um die Route um den Monte Rosa abzuschließen! Zu stark […]
Mrz 27 2019
Lizzy Hawker
Dan Lawson ist ein internationaler Läufer aus GB, im Jahr 2016 gewann er die 24-Stunden-Europameisterschaften der IAU und hält einen Weltrekord für den Distanzlauf auf einem Laufband in 7 Tagen. Er ist frisch von einer FKT auf dem Jordantrail mit Robbie Briton. Warum wendet er sich an UTMR & die Berge? Für die Magie […]
Mrz 21 2019
Lizzy Hawker
Wir freuen uns, einen Eliteläufer, Peter Brestovansky, vom slowakischen Ultra Trail Team auf der 170 km langen UTMR begrüßen zu dürfen! Hier ist, was er zu sagen hat ….. „INeben Klettern, Skialpinismus und Mountainbike fahren, laufe ich auch gerne. Die langen Laufstrecken. Ultra-Lauf. Es kam völlig aus heiterem Himmel. Zu der Zeit, als ich so […]
Feb 26 2019
Lizzy Hawker
Wir freuen uns, bei ihrem ersten Besuch ausserhalb Nepals zwei talentierte nepalesische Läufer zum UTMR 4-Etappe-Lauf willkommen zu heissen! Wir sind gespannt, was sie von den Wanderwegen rund um Monte Rosa halten! Viel Glück, Leute … Mahesh Thapa und Bikash Tamang sind zwei talentierte junge und enthusiastische Ultraläufer aus Nepal. Sie sprechen sowohl Englisch als […]
Jan 10 2019
UTMR Admin
Der UTMB-Podium Finisher wählt den UTMR-100-Meilen-Kurs 2019 für seine nächste große Herausforderung, um konzentriert und schlank zu bleiben. Er schließt sich Top 5 UTMB-Finisher Damian Hall und dem 11. Platz Petter Restorp an. Nach dem letztjährigen UTMB, bei dem ich als 6. ins Ziel kam, erfüllte ich meine sportlichen Ambitionen, und es war an der […]
Jan 08 2019
Lizzy Hawker
Here’s a nice insight into the 2018 4-day Stage Race from Rebeca Ehrnrooth, part owner of myRaceKit. A Swede living in the UK, she is an outdoor enthusiast and ultra-runner who travels the world for adventures and races. We look forward to welcoming you back in 2019 Rebeca! ——- In Lizzy Hawker’s book Runner there […]
Jan 02 2019
Lizzy Hawker
Damian Hall, Journalist und Eliteläufer, hat sich für die 2019 170 km Ultra Tour angemeldet. Mit einem beeindruckenden 5. Platz bei der UTMB 2018 in 22:35:13, und nachdem er kürzlich mit Beth Pascall eine FKT (schnellste bekannte Zeit) für den Cape Wrath Trail aufgestellt hat, ist ihm das lange und harte Rennen nicht fremd. Wir […]
Dez 10 2018
UTMR Admin
Petter Restorp has joined UTMR through our programme for elite runners… Restorp finished 11th in the UTMB this year in a very respectable 23:34:35 and is looking for a new challenge for 2019 as he explains below. —— I ended my 2018 season with a full month of rest. Instead of running I went climbing in […]
Jul 29 2018
UTMR Admin
When people enter for the Ultra Tour Monte Rosa, the ultra trail race around the massif of Monte Rosa, we ask them to tell us why they entered, with this question. Of all the races in the world, why did you choose to race the Ultra Tour Monte Rosa? And here are the answers! Massimo […]
Jul 16 2018
Lizzy Hawker
Some questions to Christian Insam, an Italian athlete on the team from La Sportiva, on why UTMR and what he is looking forward to. What you are looking forward to? I’ve been hearing about UTMR for a few years now. The idea of touring Monte Rosa has always fascinated me, as all wild, technical […]
Jun 25 2018
UTMR Admin
„Was ist eine gute Alternative zu UTMB – Ultra Trail Mont Blanc?“ Das Internet ist ein großartiger Ort, um dem Namen eines großartigen Produkts mit „Alternative to“ vorzuanstellen, um einen Weg zu finden, entweder etwas billiger, einfacher, noch „unentdeckt“ und leiser usw. zu finden. Vor allem dann, wenn das betreffende Produkt ausverkauft ist! Mit Ultra-Trail-Rennen, […]
Jun 19 2018
Lizzy Hawker
Guest post by Nicky Spinks. Nicky is the current double Bob Graham Round record holder, two laps of a ~106 km mountain route in the Lake District in the UK. With entries closing in two weeks I thought I would remind everyone what a fantastic race this is and to say that I’m so looking forward […]
Jun 10 2018
UTMR Admin
JASON POOLE : COLORADO, USA We’re delighted that Jason has offered to share his experience of the 2017 Ultra Tour Monte Rosa with anybody interested in learning more about the course from an American trail perspective. Here’s a little info about Jason and contact details. Jason became involved in endurance sports in 1987, primarily competing […]
Apr 03 2018
UTMR Admin
小野 忍(おの しのぶ) 1958年生まれ。東京在住の元アルピニストで現在はスロートレイルランナー。仕事は登山ガイドと海外登山のアドアバイザーです。個人的には100㎞以上のロングのレースに好んで出場し、制限時間を最大限につかいレースを楽しんでいます。 UTMRの舞台であるモンテローザ周辺の山やトレイルは、40年近くにわたり毎夏通っており、モンテローザやマッターホルンのほかにも多くの山の登頂経験があります。また今回のレースコースの一部は、それらの山からのの下山の途中に歩いたことのある、懐かしくまた慣れ親しんだコースです。 このエリアの山やトレイルの知識や経験を生かし、大会のアンバサダーとして参加される皆様の完走のためのサポート、現地での移動や宿泊、レース前後の観光や登山、ハイキングなどのお手伝いをさせていただきます。 chamonixshinobu@yahoo.co.jp http://mountain-ma.com/katorisenko
Mrz 07 2018
Lizzy Hawker
Lloyd Belcher, our photographer in 2015 and 2017, is coming back in 2018. This time he is leaving the cameras behind and this is why! Good luck Lloyd! „I’m very fortunate that I have a job that I enjoy and it takes me to some beautiful places around the world. But don’t be […]
Nov 07 2017
UTMR Admin
So exciting! It’s a tough race, very difficult. Very difficult. It’s not a normal ultra race. If you finish this race [you’re] very tough, the very long climbs up and do – so big – also the altitude, and also the technical… it’s so technical my god! Unbelievable. It’s not just one or two sections. […]
Sep 29 2017
UTMR Admin
While feedback is sometimes critical (and constructive) there is a lot of happy feedback from many race competitors. Here is a selection from 2017…. Basil Geoghegan „The UTMR was awesome. Putting together a race on this terrain is impressive. I loved it. I have never run a stage race before. Standing in an Alpine village […]
Jul 02 2017
UTMR Admin
On 29th July 2016, Lizzy Hawker completed a full tour of Monte Rosa solo, to „test the course“. Here is what she wrote back then in answer to five questions about the route. You started at the same time as the race will start next year, so passed around the route as a mid pack […]
Nov 30 2016
Lizzy Hawker
The route of the Ultra Tour Monte Rosa is challenging! Bold, beautiful and brutal …. There are two reasons why we ask for the experience we ask for – we want you to be safe and we want you to enjoy your race experience. It is a tough trail – high, wild and technical in […]
Okt 26 2016
UTMR Admin
The Great Himalaya Trail is a vague concept, really a network of trails through the Himalayas. When you set foot on the trails, it’s anything but vague: it’s tough, wild, enormous, humbling. Lizzy Hawker, as you may know, has a passion for making long solo journeys across tough terrain. In 2011, a attempt to cross […]
Sep 16 2016
UTMR Admin
Mark was standing below the Monte Moro pass on the Swiss side. While monitoring the runners down the slope, he kept his camera busy. Mark wants to offer printed copies of his images to you for a reasonable price in order to collect money for Trail Running Nepal’s athlete fund. The athlete’s fund raises money for […]
Aug 24 2016
UTMR Admin
Runners, with one week to go we would like to highlight the importance of the obligatory equipment. Mandatory equipment list. “There is no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.” I have just attended an event that was hit by severe wind and rain for the full 5 day duration of the event. Most […]
Aug 06 2016
UTMR Admin
„The terrain was rougher than we could possibly imagine. It was in stark contrast to the flowing trails that we’d encountered while racing the UTMB (Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc).“ Ben Read and James Noorkoiv’s account of a summer fastpack adventure on the Tour de Monte Rosa. The threat of a storm forces them to return […]
Aug 02 2016
UTMR Admin
Lizzy Hawker runs training camps around Monte Rosa. These are part UTMR trail familiarisation trips, part running training camps, part trail running instruction from Lizzy, if you ask her nicely. Covering around 170km in four days with some 11,000m of elevation change is a fantastic boost to your training for trail. It’s great preparation for […]
Jul 29 2016
UTMR Admin
UPDATE: Lizzy completed in 37 hours 10 minutes The climb is more than Everest from sea to summit, and fortunately the distance is much shorter than bay of Bengal to Everest’s top. But the comparatively short 169km on mountain trails with over 11,000m of climb and descent, all at an average altitude of around 2200m, […]
Jul 14 2016
UTMR Admin
We’ve just held 2016’s first UTMR training camp – completing the full tour of Monte Rosa in four long days. A mix of running the downs and hiking the ups, to get familiar with the course and get long hours on our feet. It’s the kind of course that needs that. One of the participants, Fergus […]
Jul 11 2016
UTMR Admin
The 2017 ultra will be a full tour of Monte Rosa, from Grächen to Grächen, with a 4-stage race along side. This nicely builds upon the experience from the stage race only zero edition, and 2016’s single stage ultra along side the stage race. 2017 thus adds the Europaweg from Grächen to Zermatt, and the crossing from Switzerland […]
Jul 02 2016
Lizzy Hawker
True, Ultra Tour Monte Rosa is only in its second year as an organized running event, but the long-distance hiking route around the Monte Rosa massif has been trod by people for quite a while previous to this. Wild and high and ridiculously scenic as it is, it’s punctuated by signs of habitation—vestiges of […]
Jun 15 2016
Lizzy Hawker
Words by Sarah Barker. I was rude and inquired the age of two finishers of the 2015 UTMR. Like most things, Roger and Bridget took my impertinence in stride, shared their experiences and gave some tips. Prepare to be blown away and inspired. In their own words… „Roger is 70 and I‚m 64. We have […]
Jun 12 2016
Lizzy Hawker
Words by Sarah Barker. I’ve observed that runners read. This is strictly anecdotal, and scientific rigor could easily prove me wrong, but I find that when runners return from seven or eight hours of scissoring the pins, they like to have a knees up. Because they are obsessive multitaskers, reading ensues. Next day, they’ve got […]
Jun 03 2016
Lizzy Hawker
Words by Sarah Barker As race volunteers go, you could do a lot worse than Keith Byrne. Super-chipper at dark-thirty in the morning? Eternal summer of the feet? Ah yes, that Keith Byrne. Byrne’s job at last year’s UTMR was to brief runners in the morning, then scurry quick to the finish line and get […]
Jun 01 2016
Lizzy Hawker
Today is the 1st June already but everything is still possible. Registrations are open until July 1st – sign up now! Register here! Words by Sarah Barker „All things seem possible in May.“ I might have said that, after a few beers, but naturalist, photographer and writer Edwin Way Teale said it first. On the […]
Mai 27 2016
Lizzy Hawker
Words by Sarah Barker So, the knee’s acting up again, or there was that frantic spot at work such that your training was reduced to the round-trip hike between desk and water cooler, and, well, you’re a bit unsure of your fitness. And particularly as it applies to the (ridiculously scenic) 116K of Ultra Tour […]
Mai 21 2016
Lizzy Hawker
Words by Sarah Barker. Women’s runner up of last year’s zero edition, Krissy Moehl, has plenty of trail racing experience—multiple UTMB finishes and two Hardrocks to name a few. Here are some things that made UTMR special for her: „The route, when done as a single-stage ultra, will be more challenging than UTMB—more technical trails, burlier […]
Mai 13 2016
UTMR Admin
We take pride in marking the Ultra Tour Monte Rosa course well with florescent markers such that nobody get lost. But everybody sometime gets into the zone of deep concentration, or deep conversation with a running partner and has missed that sharp right turn and continued down the trail. If you carry a smart phone with […]
Mai 11 2016
Lizzy Hawker
Words by Sarah Barker Since I’ve been writing about ultras—not doing them, mind you, just hanging out in cow pastures shaking a bell and talking to people who actually carry themselves over nights and rocks—certain words have taken on a completely new meaning. Words like challenge, exposure, mountain, dinner. Fun. Take for example, mountain. Having […]
Apr 17 2016
Lizzy Hawker
Say celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain opened a restaurant; you’d want to go, right? The guy’s eaten at and written about seemingly every famous restaurant on the planet. He’s an expert on dining. What would be on the menu? What would the atmosphere be like? If—didn’t happen, but if—guitar god Eric Clapton had put […]
Okt 01 2014
UTMR Admin
Today is an exciting day! We start to tell the news and story of our race. Welcome to Ultra Tour Monte Rosa. We have been working hard on this new project to develop a beautiful trail race around Monte Rosa on the Swiss / Italian border. We will hold a zero […]