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Kilian Jornet is one of the greatest long-distance trail runners and ski mountaineers of all time. He holds numerous jaw-dropping records: summiting Mount Everest twice in a week, four-time winner of the world's most hallowed and prestigious ultramarathon, UTMB(R), and four-time ski mountaineering world-cup champion. Among his most remarkable feats, described in this book in his own words alongside photography both breathtaking and revealing, is his Alpine Connections project: scaling eighty-two peaks over 13,000 feet in just nineteen days while raising awareness of the Alps' retreating glaciers. Beyond Endurance captures Jornet's passion and dedication, celebrating how he continually redefines the limits of what the human spirit and body can achieve.

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Kilian Jornet is one of the greatest long-distance trail runners and ski mountaineers of all time. He holds numerous jaw-dropping records: summiting Mount Everest twice in a week, four-time winner of the world's most hallowed and prestigious ultramarathon, UTMB(R), and four-time ski mountaineering world-cup champion. Among his most remarkable feats, described in this book in his own words alongside photography both breathtaking and revealing, is his Alpine Connections project: scaling eighty-two peaks over 13,000 feet in just nineteen days while raising awareness of the Alps' retreating glaciers. Beyond Endurance captures Jornet's passion and dedication, celebrating how he continually redefines the limits of what the human spirit and body can achieve.

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