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| Merche Addams Holmes Jones |
Today, The Grandma wants to rest a little in her English studies. She wants to dedicate this post to the person who has shared more time with her in these last years: Merche Addams-Holmes-Jones.
Merche A.H. Jones is a twister chaser who loves climbing and x-treme sports. Now, she is participating in one of the most important of her competitions and The Grandma and all the members of her families want to cheer her up to the victory.
Merche is Norwegian. Roald Amundsen is Norwegian, too. Norwegian people love nature and respect it. They are great explorers, climbers and runners although, nowadays, the best trail runner and ski mountaineer is Kílian Jornet, a man who Merche knows very well and admires a lot. Both of them have something in common, their summits of life.
More information: Visit Norway
Kílian Jornet Burgada, born 27 October 1987 in Sabadell, is a professional trail runner, ski mountaineer and long-distance runner.
He is a six-time champion of the long-distance running Skyrunner World Series and has won some of the most prestigious ultramarathons, including the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, Grand Raid, the Western States Endurance Run and the Hardrock Hundred Mile Endurance Run.
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| Kílian Jornet, Hardrock |
Jornet holds the fastest known time for the ascent and descent of Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Denali and Everest.
Jornet was born in Sabadell, a Catalan city near Barcelona. He grew up in Refugi de Cap de Rec, a mountain hut at 2000 meters in the Pyrenees at the cross-country Lles ski resort in Lles de Cerdanya, where his father was a hut keeper and mountain guide. At the age of three he climbed Tuc de Molières, a three-thousander in the Pyrenees. By the age of five he climbed Aneto 3,404 m, the highest mountain in the Pyrenees, and a year later he climbed his first four-thousander, the Breithorn (4,164 m) in Switzerland.
He started ski mountaineering in 1999, and competed for the first time at the La Molina race of the Spanish Cup in 2000. In 2003, he became a junior member of the Spanish national ski mountaineering team, and has raced as a senior since 2007. Jornet studied at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia.
More information: Kílian Jornet
Jornet has been recognised as an elite athlete since 2004 by the Catalan and Spanish sports councils. For his achievements in the junior class ski mountaineering team, he won the Catalan sports award in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
In 2005 he set a course record of 2:30:57 for the race to the 4,015-metre summit of the Dôme de Neige des Écrins. He was World Champion in the Buff SkyRunner World Series in 2007, 2008 and 2009 becoming the youngest athlete to win this honour.
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| Merche A.H. Jones is winning the race |
His sister Naila Jornet Burgada and his girlfriend Emelie Forsberg from Sweden also compete in ski mountaineering and skyrunning events.
On 7 September 2013 Jornet and Forsberg had to be rescued by the Peloton de Gendarmerie de haute montagne at 3,800 meters of altitude while attempting to climb the north face of the Aiguille du Midi in the Mont Blanc massif, wearing trail running shoes with crampons and a body stocking.
Since February 2016 Jornet and Forsberg are resident in Rauma municipality in Norway.
More information: Summits of my Life
Summits of My Life is Kilian Jornet's personal project, in which he is trying to set ascent and descent records for some of the most important mountains on the planet, and culminated with the record attempt on Mount Everest. This project includes:
-Kilimanjaro 5,895 m. On 29 September 2010, Jornet ascended and descended Kilimanjaro in a record time of 7 hours, 14 minutes. This record was broken on 13 August 2014, when the Ecuadorian mountain guide Karl Egloff ran up and down in 6 hours and 42 minutes on 13 August 2014.
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| Kílian is climbing down Mont Blanc |
-Mont Blanc traverse, 4,810 m. In September 2012, Jornet completed the Innominata, a route linking Courmayeur and Chamonix, in 8 hours and 42 minutes.
A previous attempt at ski crossing the Mont Blanc massif from Les Contamines to Champex in June 2012 resulted in the death of the French mountaineer Stéphane Brosse when a snow cornice collapsed under him.
-Mont Blanc. In July 2013, Jornet achieved the fastest known time for the ascent and descent from Chamonix in 4 hours and 57 minutes.
-Matterhorn, 4,478 m. In August 2013, Jornet achieved the fastest known time for the ascent and descent from Breuil-Cervinia in 2 hours and 52 minutes. He improved the previous fastest known time set by Bruno Brunod in 1995 by more than 20 minutes. He started climbing up the 14,962 ft peak during mid-afternoon local time, reaching the summit in 1 hour 56 minutes via the Lion Ridge from the Italian side.
More information: UTMB Montblanc
-Denali, 6,168 m. In June 2014 Jornet completed the fastest known time for the ascent and descent with a time of 11 hours and 48 minutes using both skis and crampons, breaking the previous record by 5 hours and 6 minutes.
-Aconcagua, 6,960 m. In December 2014 Jornet set a record for climbing and descending Aconcagua from Horcones, the nearest road, at Puente del Inca, and back, in 12 hours and 49 minutes. Jornet's record was broken in February 2015, again by Karl Egloff, who completed the route in 11 hours and 52 minutes.
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| Merche A.H. Jones |
-Elbrus, 5,642 m. Jornet made an attempt in 2013 to set the fastest known time for the ascent and descent from Azau but was forced to turn back by bad weather. The fastest known time for the ascent is 3:23:37 set in 2010 by Andrzej Bargiel, while the record time for ascent and descent is 4:20:45, set on 7 May 2017 by Karl Egloff.
-Mount Everest, 8,848 m. Jornet planned an attempt for September 2016, but after 3 weeks of acclimatizing at base camp on the north side of Mt Everest at 6,000m, the weather started to change and snow accumulations increased the risk of avalanche, so the attempt was cancelled.
He returned in 2017 and successfully summited Mount Everest at midnight, local time, on 22nd May. Climbing without fixed ropes or supplemental oxygen, he reached the top via a new route in 26 hours from base camp. On May 27 he reached the summit again from advanced base camp in 17 hours, about 15-20 minutes slower than the records from this camp set by Hans Kammerlander and Christian Stangl in 1996 and 2006, respectively.
More information: Everest Trail Race
I am not afraid to fail; to get lost, to dream, to be myself, to find.
I am not afraid to live.
Kílian Jornet
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