[Editor’s Note: Photographer and Vert.Run co-founder Kirsten Kortebein created these images at the 2022 UTMB. Enjoy!]
The 2022 UTMB was a memorable one, with a really decisive win by Katie Schide (post-race interview) within the ladies’s race and a brand new males’s course file by Kilian Jornet on the lads’s aspect. However there have been loads of different human tales unfolding alongside the course of the 171.5-kilometer (106.5-mile) loop round Mont Blanc, which weaved its approach by means of France, Italy, and Switzerland. A few of the magic is captured on this picture gallery. It’s also possible to learn our 2022 UTMB outcomes article for extra.
Katarzyna Solińska (Poland) glances on the roaring crowd earlier than the 6 p.m. begin of the 2022 UTMB on Friday, August 26. All photographs: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
Followers collect on a roof overlooking the beginning line in Chamonix, France, whereas mountains loom sharply within the distance.
The balcony of the Chamonix metropolis corridor gives arguably the most effective vantage level of the UTMB begin.
Members of the family of a racer smile as they inform family members over the cellphone that UTMB has began.
The city of Les Contamines, 31 kilometers into UTMB, buzzes with locals ingesting beer, waving flags, and serving up sizzling canines and potatoes to spectators.
Evening sweeps in over Les Contamines.
“It’s just like the Tour de France for ultrarunners,” mentioned one spectator of the jovial ambiance in Les Contamines.
UTMB attracts its fair proportion of four-legged followers. Right here, a canine seems round to determine what all of the “dinging” is about. (It’s the cowbells.)
With midnight struck on the clock way back, crews nap anyplace they will. On this case, Courmayeur, Italy’s heat sports activities heart does the job. The sports activities heart is the 80-kilometer mark for the UTMB.
Moisés Jiménez (Venezuela, lives in France) heads again out into the night time after re-fueling at Courmayeur.
A glowing dawn over Martigny, Switzerland, brings a brand new day — and renewed vitality — for crews and runners.
Crews unload in Champex-Lac, digging deep for vitality after 14 straight hours of aiding their runners. The mountain-top village of Champex-Lac is 126 kilometers into UTMB.
Gabriel Santos (Argentina) breaks into a smile as he’s welcomed again into Chamonix to complete the UTMB.
A younger fan is elated after getting a high-five from a crew ending the 300-kilometer PTL race, one of many different occasions within the UTMB Mont-Blanc competition.
Racers expertise numerous feelings throughout an extremely, however the household and mates of finishers may expertise much more. Right here, a runner is greeted by his household on the end line.
The solar shines over Chamonix, France, as racers full their tour round Mont Blanc.
