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Sometimes we find futuristic pictures lurking in the shadows of old photo albums or in the hard drives of our computers. This is his 1993 version. A young dark-haired woman wears a red sweater, blue pants, and a large backpack sticking out over her head. She makes her way through coniferous forests and walks along riverside paths. It’s summer, but it’s not that hot. By his side are his two small children, a four-year-old girl and his six-year-old brother. All three walk quickly. This can be seen in the snapshot taken by the father of the two children. Neither complain. The boy who crosses Lapland on foot with his family travels through Corsica, the Pyrenees and the Alps, always walking, I guess, with a relaxed smile on his face.

Happily frolic when so many others are lying on the ground, this little boy would rather freeze to death than take a step forward and asks to be carried, that’s Killian Journette.25 years and what Thousands of kilometers later, the kid has become the world’s biggest star in trail running, ski climbing, and even risking the disgust of many purists (more on that later). rice field. The little boy who walked briskly with his hands in his pockets in the picture not only never stopped pushing forward, but over the years he paced himself, sought heights, and broke every record imaginable. A three-time winner of the world’s largest mountain running race, the Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc (famous ‘UTMB’), he became the first man to summit the Mont Blanc twice last year. Everest 6 days away, without oxygen alone. From all these performances and this extraordinary physiology (his 34 heartbeats per minute at rest) he inherited the commendable nickname, extraterrestrial, superterrestrial.Titled Adventurer of the Year published in 2014 by national geographic a single sponsor (Solomon) who pampers him; He is fully versed in his more than 1.5 million subscribers and followers of his social networks including Facebook (780,000), Instagram and Twitter. In real life, last year at his UTMB in Chamonix, the gendarmes had to protect him from rabid fans. No doubt this year will be the same.

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We met him in Annecy, the headquarters of the Salomon brand. He didn’t want us to come to his house in Norway, where he lives with his partner, Swedish trail champion Emelie Forsberg. He no longer lives in Chamonix. The Beatles sang, “She came in through the bathroom window,” and she came in through the bathroom window. All things considered, in Annecy, Jornet lived through hell as described by Lennon and McCartney. Fans knocking on your bathroom window, ringing your doorbell, huddling in front of your house, following you down the street…”Only me. like a country. In Chamonix you have to say the name of the mountain as soon as you come back from the race. In Norway, if you just say “I’ve been there”, your neighbor will say “that’s nice”. He makes us understand that there is nothing more proud than a baker who makes delicious bread every day. The little 30-year-old Catalan (1.71 m, 58 kg, 8% body fat) who speaks Spanish, Catalan, French and English perfectly and is starting to do well in Norwegian and Swedish, says that exercise is I don’t really like it. interview. Director Sébastien Montaz-Rosé, co-author of the film, said: road to everest, taken in 2017: “Killian loves humanity, but she doesn’t really like men.” , he imposes his nature. You don’t have to leave Saint-Cyr to guess that this man would rather run through the woods or over high peaks than answer questions in an office where he has only one window. He was injured during the famous ski mountaineering race in Savoie at the end of the winter, and he was on the verge of winning again: a broken fibula and a dislocated ankle, but he had already passed the summer and his marathon at Montblanc. and his UTMB and other big events.

He sometimes films himself running along ledges that are narrower than him. A thousand meters of emptiness on each side. Only chamois passed by, and also. It’s literally in his blood. His father Eduardo was a mountain guide and guardian of the Cap del Lec Reserve in Catalonia. His mother, Nuria, was an elementary school principal and coach at the Mountain Ski Technical Center in Catalonia. Kylian Jornet celebrates his first birthday in a shelter his father kept at 1,986 meters above sea level. He reached his first “3,000” (meter) summit at the age of three. His first 4,000 at the age of six in Breithorn, Switzerland. At the age of thirteen, he was uncertain whether to enroll in Beaux-Arts or follow the path of his parents in the mountains. The call of the peak is overwhelming.Studying sports, his first competition, his first victory…”Why are you going to the mountains?” I asked him about the site. Alpinemag.frAnswer: “I guess I had no choice. My parents lived in the mountains, so they taught me that from an early age. For me, it’s an environment I’ve always known. In the city I feel out of my element, uncomfortable, there is noise everywhere, there is so much going on.In the mountains it calms me down.”