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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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Feral Fellrunners!
Herdwick’s Heaf!
Flying over Langdale!
Luna’s Langdale
Ullswater viewed descending Birks
Troutbeck Sunset 🌅🏔🐏 time lapse, the sun dropping over the shoulder of Wetherlam and the Coniston Fells.
Best▪️Dog▪️Ever 🐶🐾
Freya fell running 🏔🏃🏼‍♀️ this evening, looking down on Rydal Water and Loughrigg Fell.
Stunning Sunset 🏔🌄 Sky on fire this evening, over the Coniston fells.
Sunset rock! 🌅🧗‍♂️🏔 Freya doing her first autonomous abseils. Incredible to have warm Spring evenings so soon after the recent ice!
Dawn patrol 🏔🏃‍♂️🐶🐾 running from the door with Luna.
Langdale Puddles 🏔🌊🚴‍♀️ Après home school, energy burn. Soaked. Muddy. Happy!
LIVE- Ambleside Flooding 🌊☔️💦⚠️ Rothay Park fast becoming a lake, with rivers over bank-full levels.
Mines of Moria (Khazad-dûm) 🏔⛏🔥🐉 Alway think the old quarries on the West flank of Yoke, have a Tolkien-esque look to them.
Fell Dog 🏔🐶🐾🦴 Luna in full Border Collie alert mode on a moody Black Crag in the clag.
Herdy fell runners 🏔🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 So much for ‘slow travel’. Herdwick sheep running laps of the drumlin. Pure joy!
She’s good at hints 🏔🏃‍♂️🐶🐾
Snow laden skies ❄️🌨🌙 at dusk last night.

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