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François Montuori buckles up ahead of launching during the Dolomiti SuperFly 2024. Photo: Yanis Lasblats

‘This is Your Day’: Inside the Dolomiti SuperFly 2024

François Montuori takes us inside the heart of an elite hike-and-fly race – this year’s five-day Dolomiti SuperFly in the Dolomites
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X-Pyr hike-and-fly race

X-Pyr announce largest field of athletes ever

The 2024 X-Pyr has the largest field of participants ever, with Ben Hodgson being the first athlete to represent the African continent
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PreAlpi Tour 2023

PreAlpi Tour Hike-and-Fly 2023: 20-23 July

The PreAlpi Tour Hike-and-Fly Race 2023 will run over four days from 20-23 July in Italy and is open to all
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Red Bull X-Alps 2021: Day 8 Roundup

Was this the day that Chrigel Maurer won the Red Bull X-Alps 2021?
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Red Bull X-Alps 2021: Day 7 roundup

With 9 hours in the air and flights of 200km the leaders round Mont Blanc
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Red Bull X-Alps 2021: Day 6 Roundup

Day 6 of the Red Bull X-Alps 2021 saw the action at the front heating up with a group of pilots chasing Chrigel Maurer down.
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X-Berg Challenge 2021

X-Berg Challenge 2021: runner Jon Kirkman wins

Jon Kirkman won the Extreme category of the 2021 X-Berg Challenge for the second consecutive time, as a trail runner. He won as a mountain biker in 2019! 
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Wanaka hike and fly, New Zealand

Fraser Monteith and Vicki Zadrozny won the Wanaka Hike and Fly event that took place over the second weekend of March, the first of its kind in New Zealand
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X-Berg Challenge 2021

X-Berg Challenge 2021: Entries Open

Entries opened on 8 August 2020 for the 2021 X-Berg Challenge, the multi-day, multi-sport adventure race in the Drakensberg mountains of South Africa
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Red Bull Elements 2018

Red Bull Elements 2018

On Saturday 15 September 2018 the beach at Talloires on the shores of lake Annecy hosted the eighth edition of Red Bull Elements
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