MILAN, Italy – The mountains on the horizon, the next season ready to kick off. We are in Milan, in the italian Coni sport association headquarter for the autumn ISMF Forum. Three days to work, set up and tailor the last details of a challenging season. We will go through many topics. From the calendar, to the new ranking system connecting…
Today the Ismf concluded with the voting for the new board and management committee. Armando Mariotta, was reelected as President, new members of the board are Marco Mosso, from the Italian federation, and Leo Condrau, from CAS. Other new additions are Johannes Schmid, from Dav, Pierre Dupont, FFME, Jaume Esteve, Fam being voted on to the management committee. Roberto Cavallo…
At Les Marecottes, the World Cup athletes had barely the time to rest from the Individual Race before having to compete for the Vertical Race event. The course unwound over 668 m of positive gradient spread over a distance of only 3 km. The race was conquered with an irresistible display of power by the Spaniard Kilian Jornet who finished…
On the 27th & 28th October Armando Mariotta, the ISMF President, was invited to attend the 90th Anniversary of the foundation of the Russian Mountaineering Federation in Moscow. On the first day the ISMF President was honoured to take part in festivities celebrating the 90 years of the Russian Mountaineering Federation and enjoyed the opportunity of meeting up with Mr…
It’s with great satisfaction that we have the honour of announcing some very good news to all ski mountaineering enthusiasts. Yesterday at the ISMF Plenary Assembly in Stockholm, the member federations voted unanimously in favour of integrating the races of the so called La Grande Course, into the ISMF calendar, as the Long Distance Team events for the 2014/15 ISMF…
TAMBRE (Italy), 24th February 2017 – Clouds and a grey sky did not prevent the athletes to grab the first shining medals of the 2017 ISMF world Champs. Damiano Lenzi, from Italy and Laetitia Roux from France were the best athletes on course on what turned out to be a very technical world Champs opening. Kilian Jornet Burgada, Spain,and Maude Mathys, Swiss, took silver, while…
We have learned from FFME about a very sad news concerning the death of Michel Garcia on 16 March 2015 at the age of 84. Michel Garcia expecially covered the positions of director in the Chamonix ski mountaineering national school and General Secretary in the Fédération Francaise de la Montagne et de l’Escalade from 1997 to 2001. In the historic…
A few hours after the spectacular individual race on Friday morning, the mountains at Piancavallo welcomed the cream of the crop of Ski Mountaineering for the sprint race that drew the curtain on the two-day event at the border between the two regions of Veneto and Friuli. The Sprint Race was the second to last event of the ISMF Ski…
William Bon Mardion has won the last individual race of the World Cup at Tromsø and has been awarded the specialty Crystal Cup. Of the women, Laetitia Roux has confirmed her leadership, wining the race and the overall ranking. This morning, some kilometres from Tromsø in Norway, the Blåtind Arctic Race was run, the second to last trial of the…
2014 SCARPA ISMF WORLD CUP – Gallery Individual Race Verbier