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Chamonix Video: 14th August 2014

The Road to the UTMB by The North Face

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By Ellie Mahoney, Updated

The North Face Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB for short) is renowned for being one of the toughest, longest and biggest tests of endurance running around. It circumnavigates the Mont Blanc massive, which is a whopping 166 kilometres long. The North Face have just released this series of videos that highlighting the journey of some of this years athletes.. See the course here.

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