If you are a fan of running and climbing, I am sure that you love watching documentaries and short films related to this discipline. We have wanted to compile the most interesting of the moment, with which you can do a "marathon" of a few hours (and without putting on your shoes). We discover the best national and international stories.
Kilian Jornet Specials
Path to Everest
Available Rakuten TV, Prime Video, Vimeo, Itunes.
Kilian Jornet, the greatest mountain runner in history, wrote as a child a list of all the races he would like to win and all the mountains he dreamed of climbing. In May 2017, he crossed off the last top of the list by completing a historic double ascent of Everest solo, without oxygen, and in one go. He was the culmination of the project Summits of My Life, which for five years has led him to tour spectacular peaks around the planet accompanied by a small group of mountaineers. In this documentary he reviews the path that has taken Kilian Jornet to the highest peak in the world.
Langtang
Available Vimeo.
Langtang is the story of a trip to the heart of Nepal. In April 2015, Kilian Jornet, together with the mountaineer Jordi Tosas and the cameraman Seb Montaz prepare for an expedition to Everest within the third year of the Summits of My Life project. Two days before leaving, an earthquake dramatically hits Nepal and especially the Langtang Valley where Jordi Tosas has great friends.
Inside Kilian Jornet
Available for free at Rakuten TV.
Coinciding with his entry into his thirties, Kilian Jornet lived the best and worst year of his life. The documentary follows Jornet during an intense 10-day tour of 10 cities around the world, discovering for the first time everything that surrounds this professional athlete and showing us the most unknown and uninhibited side of him. Between presentations, interviews and brand commitments and with little sleep, the athlete reflects on a year marked by injuries; for his search for a balance between competition and personal projects, and for the news of the arrival of his first daughter.
Running 30's
Birthday and go through the operating room. This has been the recovery of Kilian Jornet after the intervention on his shoulders. When returning to the competition, an unexpected accident occurs. The crisis of the 30?
Part 1. Available for free on Youtube (above)
2 part. Available for free on Youtube
Emelie Forsberg Specials
Being an athlete and a new mother
The mountain athlete and sky running world champion, Emelie Forsberg, gave birth to her daughter Maj in March and in this short film she shares how she finds the balance between the joy of being a mother, as well as her return to training and high competition as mountain athlete.
4 in a row
Emelie Forsberg wants to see more women in the mountains taking on challenges and achieving their dreams. For this reason, she has decided to share in this '4 in a row' the four records that she established in Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, Galdhopiggen and Kungsleden.
Mireia Miró specials
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Mireia Miró, a professional ski mountaineerer, traveled to Norway in April for an inspirational and introspective journey. Her goal: put aside the bibs, meet new people and discover new landscapes on skis, enjoying ski mountaineering without pressure. They spent a few days living on a boat and skiing from sea level to the top. From this experience "Ser" was born, about how to rediscover yourself and your motivations.
Ordesa, closing the circle
At barely 18 years old, Mireia Miró worked at the Góriz shelter. There, a dream was born that has accompanied her for a long time: to ski the three thousand most emblematic of Ordesa, those that she saw every day from her window and that she began to cross for the first time together with Joan Maria Vendrell, guard of the refuge.
The story of Cristofer Clemente
Did you know that in just 4 years Cristofer Clemente went from being overweight and leading a sedentary life to competing among the best? This was the life change of the athlete that you can see in his documentary “Another Cristofer”. An inspiring story of overcoming!
UTMB
What's it like to run in the dark and not know what's in front of you? From Strava they have filmed the athletes who ran the 170 km of the Ultra Trail Mont Blanc in the middle of the night. Amazing!