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Kílian Jornet Burgada

    October 27, 1987

    This athlete specializes in extreme endurance mountain sports. His disciplines include ski mountaineering, long-distance running, and mountain biking, often within challenging duathlon competitions. He has achieved championship titles in the Skyrunner World Series and won a prestigious ultra-endurance run. His career is defined by pushing physical limits in wild mountain environments.

    Kílian Jornet Burgada
    La frontiera invisibile
    Uphill Athlete
    Run Or Die
    Above the Clouds
    Summits of My Life
    Training for the uphill athlete : a manual for mountain runners and ski mountaineers
    • Above the Clouds

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest in this profound and free-flowing memoir--an intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth's highest peak to the soul's deepest reaches.

      Above the Clouds2019
      3.6
    • Summits of My Life

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Kilian Jornet is the world_s fastest mountain climber, ultrarunner, and ski mountaineer and his Summits of My Life project is his most ambitious achievement: the 29 year-old Spaniard challenged ascent and descent records for the world_s most important mountains including Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, Mt. Elbrus, Denali, Aconcagua, and Mount Everest. By using all his talent in ultrarunning, climbing, and skiing, Jornet made worldwide headlines with his jaw-dropping, superhuman climbs. In this illustrated, info-packed, and awe-inspiring account, Jornet documents his successful attempts to set new roundtrip FKTs (fastest-known times) while following his own ethic of climbing simply, purely, with minimal gear, and with love and respect for the environment and the mountains. Summits of My Life includes his preparation, his successes and failures, facts and elevation maps, and mind-blowing statistics along with Jornet_s personal commentary and inspiring photographs. With every new record, Jornet achieves the unthinkable and pushes the boundaries of mountaineer, ultrarunning, and ski mountaineering. Now, as his project nears completion, Jornet_s Summits of My Life will awe and thrill readers.

      Summits of My Life2018
      3.9
    • La frontiera invisibile

      • 222 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      "Se non sogniamo, siamo morti." Questo è il motto di Kilian Jornet, il giovane skyrunner catalano che il 21 agosto 2013 ha stabilito il nuovo record di salita e discesa del Cervino: 2 ore e 52 minuti per toccare il cielo e tornare indietro. Per Kilian la montagna rappresenta il sogno più grande ma, come ha imparato tragicamente, può anche trasformarsi nel peggiore degli incubi. Durante una traversata del Monte Bianco, infatti, Kilian ha perso il suo maestro, il suo idolo, il suo migliore amico. E il suo mondo è andato in pezzi. Nel periodo che è seguito, fatto di tante domande, dubbi e interrogativi su ciò che stava facendo, ha elaborato un nuovo progetto, studiato per mettersi alla prova ancora una volta, per sondare il confine tra coraggio e incoscienza, per capire davvero se stesso e il senso delle sue imprese. Il progetto prevede di scalare una delle vette più alte dell'Himalaya, il Gosainthan, al confine tra Cina e Nepal. Sono solo in tre, per un'avventura impossibile. Una spedizione invernale, senza corde, armati solo di un paio di sci, qualche provvista e una tenda. Questo libro racconta quel viaggio, che è allo stesso tempo una ricerca, una fuga, un momento di conoscenza, un incontro con luoghi e persone lontane e con gli angoli più profondi di sé. In queste pagine di una sincerità toccante, Kilian Jornet ci invita a seguirlo nel suo viaggio, ad andare oltre noi stessi, a oltrepassare le frontiere...

      La frontiera invisibile2013
      3.7
    • Run Or Die

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Kilian Jornet is a world champion ultra-runner, and before age 25 had conquered some of the toughest physical tests on the planet. He has run the great Mt. Kilimanjaro faster than any other human being, and struck down world records in every challenge that has been proposed.

      Run Or Die2011
      3.6
    • Uphill Athlete

      Training für Skibergsteiger und Bergläufer

      Skitouren und Bergläufe gehören zu den anspruchsvollsten Bergsportdisziplinen überhaupt. Um den schwierigen Anforderungen des Bergsports generell gerecht zu werden und auch körperlich herausfordernde Routen zu meistern, ist ein gezieltes Training nötig. Basierend auf ihren eigenen Erfahrungen zeigen drei der besten Bergsportler der Welt, Kílian Jornet, Steve House und Scott Johnston, wie Sie Ihre Kraft, Ausdauer und Fitness steigern können, um am Berg maximale Leistung zu bringen. Die Autoren führen detailliert in die physiologischen Grundlagen sowie in Methodik und Praxis des Ausdauertrainings ein und zeigen Ihnen spezielle Kraftworkouts, die auf die Bedürfnisse von Bergsportlern zugeschnittenen sind. Zudem lernen Sie, wie Sie den perfekten Trainingsplan erstellen, um sich für jedes Niveau und jedes Ziel optimal vorzubereiten. Ob der Marathon auf dem Mount Everest oder das Skitourrennen auf dem Marmoladagletscher in den Dolomiten – profitieren auch Sie von dem großen Erfahrungsschatz der besten Bergsportathleten.

      Uphill Athlete2004
      4.0