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Wednesday, 30 April 2025

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- Travesia (@SendaPirenaica) April 30, 2025

Kilian Jornet not only runs faster and further: his body converts lactate into energy when others collapse, his microbiota is worthy of study and his mind does not switch off even on the verge of exhaustion. (AdventurePlaces). A new study places him outside the known physiological limits after monitoring his body in the UTMB and in the 82 alpine four-thousanders. According to physiologist Jesús Álvarez-Herms, this is "the best example of the maximum biological potential of the human being".

Soline Kentzel has soloed and self-insured the 900m 'The Nose', spending three and a half days on the iconic Capitan wall. (Desnivel).
She did it with a mix of free and artificial, with hardly any previous experience in this style, and completely alone on the route, before the start of the season. Inspired by Sílvia Vidal, the 23-year-old Frenchwoman redefines what it means to perform when climbing by inspiration, not expectation.

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30,000 years ago, groups of Homo sapiens crossed the Pyrenees carrying backpacks with flint, ornaments and hunting tools, on journeys linking clans on both sides of the Pyrenees. (Theconversation). Montlleó, in Cerdanya, reveals a past where the mountain was a place of passage, exchange and cultural tradition, not a barrier. Thanks to the geochemical analysis of the flint, archaeologists are reconstructing the exact routes they followed, tracing their backpack stone by stone.
Benjamin Védrines broke the mould in 2022 by climbing Broad Peak in 7h28 and paragliding from the summit. (Barrabes) -a feat never before seen on an eight-thousander. Now, the film "Edge of Reason" can be seen in its entirety: a raw and vertiginous portrait of mountaineering without fixed ropes, without oxygen and without a net. A year later, he repeated the feat on K2 and once again flew from the top. Only this time he also made history.