Trail running news from trail races in Nepal Himalayas, Asia and Nepali athletes running around the world.
Just back from a few days in glorious Dhorpatan in Baglung district. The name comes from the flat meadows above the ~4000m high tree-line, which are locally known as patans, and the marshy flat open valley next to which the village itself sits called dhor. If you are a slightly adventurous trekker, trail runner or mountain biker, I can […]
Even bigger version here. This is the staged trail race around the Annapurna Circuit, largely following the off the beaten track ‘New Annapurna Trekking Trails’, that we’re excited to be running in collaboration with Seth Wolpin and Wide Open Vistas. Right away, here are some facts and figures: Nine stages 272km 14750m elevation change 5400m highest […]
Trail Running Nepal newsletter May 16th 2015 To say Nepal is going through difficult times at the moment would be an understatement. The web is filled with images and stories about the tragedy. Right now, just before the weekend comes though, we wanted to share two more positive stories from Nepal published in the Guardian […]
Good job Mira Rai and Samir Tamang for together writing another page in the drama-filled story of Nepali trail runners. Here they are leaving from Nepal for the Buffalo Stampede Skyrunning race in Australia. As one indignant (but fairly correct) commenter on Facebook put it, arriving one day before the competition showed “very bad managements”. […]
UPDATE >>>> https://trailrunningnepal.org/oceania-skyrunning-championships/ What a mess. At the time of writing it is one hour until the end of Delhi’s office hours, and an hour left for an email to come saying an Australian visa has been granted for three Nepali athletes – Mira, Purna and Samir. Hope has faded – 16:21… Everybody here knows how […]
The Everest Sky Race is one of the original multi-stage trail races in Nepal organised by Bruno Poirier and his team of Chevaliers du Vent and Amazones du Ciel. Always original, always changing, the routes are very challenging, not fearing to take the highest altitudes trails possible. You can download full information here: ESR 2015. Dossier […]
For this varied audience just a note about what Skyrunning is. The name is gives a big clue, and as another has put it, “Skyrunning is the brave and burly cousin of trail running.” There are rules about what makes a Skyrunning course, but essentially it means running on trails at high altitudes with a […]
NEPAL WINS THE 2014 OXFAM HONG KONG TRAILWAKER RACE FOR THE SECOND YEAR RUNNING The Oxfam Hong Kong Trailwalker Race was organised by Oxfam Hong Kong from 14 – 16 November 2014. The race started at 0830 hours from Pak Tam Chung, Sai Kung HK to the various 8 Check Points stretching to the […]
Super happy here in Nepal to see another great performance by Nepali Trail Runners Mira Rai and Santosh Tamang. Mira is pretty special among Nepali runners in that she is the one driving her training. She’s not part of an army or police team or a running club, but gets out on the trails on […]
A great opportunity to get NOLS Wilderness First aid Responder qualified from certified trainers for an affordable price in Kathmandu, Nepal. Read on: This course is one of few wilderness medicine courses held outside of America or Europe. It’s been conducted twice now at the Kakani international training centre, North east from the Kathmandu valley. It’s […]
Here are more images thanks to http://anujadhikary.com/ Red Fox 50km event Position Name Number M/F Time 1 Damodar Dudha Magar M 43 5:15:13 2 Durga Raj Bhutha M 21 5:27:30 3 Bihim Bdr Gurung M 29 5:36:29 4 Nabraj Shrestha M 4 6:20:08 5 Narayan Deshar M 7 6:26:08 6 Edwin Perry M 38 6:53:50 7 […]
Another notch in Mira’s tree of dreams. A long 83km around traildeglieroi.it done in relaxed style. Queen of the mountains, 9h16m, first lady, 8th overall and in good shape at the finish. Well done Mira! See Mira’s short and clean running record here. Many people around the world have clubbed together to help Mira financially […]
Here’s an absolutely fabulous moment. Here comes Mira Rai from a tiny village in Bhojpur barreling into a tiny village in Italy. She completed the 56.9km distance in 6h36’30”, five minutes ahead of second women Silvia Rampazzo, and finishing in 11th position overall, some 50 minutes behind the leading man. The course had 3700m of height […]
December 2012 – end of an era! You may know Roger Henke. I first heard of him through his promotions of the Annapurna 100 in 2009 when it was a 70-ish km race and through these promotions is where I first discovered trail running. Roger worked hard for several years to make the Annapurna 100 […]
Hong Kong, Tai Mo Shan Rotary Park. 18th January 2014. Nepal placed 1st and 2nd beating an international field in the 4th Vibram® Hong Kong 100 trail running race held on Saturday 18th January. Tirtha Tamang and Bed Sunuwar of the Nepali Army Team took first and second place in the grueling 100km long Vibram […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kathmandu, Sunday 21st April 2013 Runner breaks own 3-day record for 319km Everest Base Camp to Kathmandu mail run. British female endurance athlete completes journey in 63 hours 8 minutes. On Saturday evening at 10 minutes past ten, the British endurance athlete Lizzy Hawker, 37, arrived at the locked gates of […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kathmandu, 18th April 2013 Runner to break own 3-day record for 319km Everest Basecamp to Kathmandu run. British endurance athlete Lizzy Hawker to arrive in Kathmandu from Base Camp on Saturday evening. At 7am on Thursday 18th April internationally renowned endurance athlete Lizzy Hawker began a solo run in the direction of […]
The 1st Lantau 100km / 50km Ultra Trail Open Running Race was held on 16th March 2013 starting from the beautiful beach area of the famous holiday spot in Mui Wo, Lantau Island. The race started at 0900 hrs with 1300 participants from 30 countries in the 100K, 50K Mens and Ladies Events. The race […]
Inspired by the Tenzing Hillary marathon, Nepalese runner now faces up to the best inthe endurance classic in the New Territories
A short report from Ramesh Bhattachan from November’s Trail Walker event in which six Nepali runners competed. The Oxfam Hong Kong Trailwalker began in 1986 used to be organised by the Gurkhas as a tough training run. Now it is a charity race run by Oxfam and has thousands of participants, often running in teams. […]
The Annpurna 100’s proper race director back in position. For three years I have been the ceremonial race director of the Annapurna100 (and its other distances). The actual race was always organized by Ramesh Bhattachan. As an expat resident of Nepal I was bound to be a transient. Now I am leaving, following my wife Marjan to […]
Victoire de Upendra Sunuwar et de Magali Juvenal La première édition de Annapurnna Ultra-Mountain by Patagonia s’est achevée, ce samedi au Népal. Cette nouvelle épreuve, proposée par Les Chevaliers du Vent et imaginée par Bruno Poirier, était longue de 75 km (+2500 m, -5800 m). L’idée symbolique de la course était de quitter l’univers himalayen […]
18th February – Race result Straight to the point: Ryan Sandes/South Africa/9:54 Aite Tamang/Nepal/10:17 Bed Bahadur Sunuwar/Nepal/10:26 Those are the official results. Please disregard the below previously posted. Ryan Sandes – 9.45.57 – South Africa Aite Tamang – 10.17.15 – Nepal Bed Sunuwar – 10.46.36 – Nepal Two Nepali finishers in the top three of […]
The Everest Sky Race last November, run by the French organisation des Chevaliers du Vent, had a nice write up on the handsome online Go Trail magazine. To read it you have to click the image below which will open up the online magazine. Then flick through to the back page (reading all the stuff […]
Sudip Kulung finishes 4th in world-class field in the Mount Kinabalu International Climbathon in Sabah, Malayasia Kota Kinabulu, Sabah, Malaysia – Sunday 23rd October 2011 Nepali trail runner Sudip Kulung from Gudel in Solukhumbu made history today. Competing against a world-class field in the 25th Mount Kinabalu International Climbathon in Malayasia, considered the world’s toughest […]
Lizzy Hawker is right now in Kathmandu and looking forward to getting out into the mountains. She is looking forward to doing what she does best, which is simply moving at her own preferred pace (quick) through high mountains. From 11th October she will be on the trails of East Nepal, heading up towards Kanchenjunga base camp. From […]
Goose bumps! When you see a friend who has not only done well, but done something really extraordinary, it is hard to stop the goose bumps spreading followed by a cold shiver. Lizzy Hawker did something extraordinary.
Great news from Switzerland about two of our friends who competed in events in Davos. Sudip Rai came 5th in the 42km event and Lizzy Hawker (who ran the Annpurna 100 in January this year) was clear winner in the women’s 78km. This is great news for Sudip and the Nepal Mountain Running Service. Last […]
Voilà, the start of the Annapurna Mandala Trail race 2011 at Annapurna basecamp around 4,000 m above sea level.