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Photo d’archive Spiridon de 1980 montrant des coureurs du 90 km du Mont-Blanc près de Forclaz, avec Berlie et Roussel portant le débardeur Spiridon Great Britain, photo Michel Colin.

The Mont-Blanc 90km: a thousand runners in the Chamonix night

In 1979, Jacques Berlie and Christian Roussel completed the Tour du Mont-Blanc in 21 hours and 48 minutes—alone, at night, with an R5 as a support vehicle. Twenty-four years before the UTMB, their adventure, recounted in Spiridon (August 1980), is one of the first written accounts of alpine trail running. Full text recovered from our archives.
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