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Category Archives: Chamonix

Lockdown Publication

April 11, 2020by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

It was a publication day like no other. Coronavirus lockdown. No prospect of travel in the near future, yet launching a book that extolled just that, a new guidebook about […]

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Chamonix, Tour du Mont Blanc, trekking, Vertebrate Publishing

OWPG Best Guidebook award 2017

October 19, 2017by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

I’m back from the Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild (OWPG) annual AGM weekend. To be fair I didn’t have to travel too far, as it was just up the road […]

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Chamonix, fell running, Lake District, OWPG, trail running, writing

Author running events

July 7, 2017by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

As part of the launch events for these running guidebooks, there are a couple of upcoming ‘run with the author’ dates for your diary. These two dates are both based […]

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Chamonix, trail running, UTMB

Chamonix Spring Trails

March 22, 2017by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

So when is the trail running season in Chamonix and the Alps? Now!!! Yesterday I posted a video I’d shot whilst running to Gorge d’Arveyron and Le Chapeau above Lavancher […]

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Chamonix, trail running

Commercialism – running to escape it

November 21, 2013by Kingsley Jones 6 Comments

I will not run the Marathon du Mont Blanc ever again. Back in 2009, it was my first proper mountain race, and I loved every minute (there were plenty of […]

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Chamonix, trail running

TDS race 119km

September 3, 2013by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

Last week I ran one of the UTMB Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc events, called the TDS, or more formally Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie (On the tracks […]

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Chamonix, trail running, UTMB

80km du Mont Blanc

June 30, 2013by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

On Friday I ran the first ever edition of the 80km du Mont Blanc, a brand new trail race that I involved 6000m of ascent. This made it comparable to […]

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Chamonix, trail running

Summer to Autumn

October 7, 2012by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

I’m finally at the end of my summer season guiding in the Alps, and with low cloud and rain in Chamonix today, it feels like the inter-season too. A massive […]

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Chamonix, personal training, trail running

UTMB: Ready for lift off

August 25, 2012by Kingsley Jones 1 Comment

Last year at this time, I was a nervous wreck, waiting in fear for the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc UTMB to set off in a weeks time. This year […]

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Chamonix, trail running

Trail running camp

July 25, 2012by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

Last week I was out each day leading a Trail Running Camp for http://www.icicleUK.com, on routes around the Chamonix region. The week had amazing weather, with not even one spot […]

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Chamonix, routes, trail running

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