Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) - Anyone going to watch (or take part)?

The description doesn't make it sound too bad, does it:

Mountain race, with numerous passages in high altitude (>2500m), in difficult weather conditions (night, wind, cold, rain or snow), that needs a very good training, adapted equipment and a real capacity of personal autonomy.

Then you see this:


... then this:



... and then this ... HARDCORE!! :




View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsxnOfw_b1Q


http://utmbmontblanc.com/en/

 

You doing it? It's my dream race (except that I don't run further than 13 miles, which throws a spanner in the works)

 

Oh hell no - nowhere near able to do anything like that!! Got to admire the strength, stamina and will power of the people who do take in on though. Mad, the lot of them, but in a good way.

 

We went to spectate the Western States 100 a year or so ago. It was incredible just watching it, maybe I should drag the family to Chamonix