2023-06-14 22:27:40
The Chartreuse Terminorum ultra-trail in 2018. Candidates discover the route, which is different each year, shortly before the start. Cyrille Quintard
REPORTAGE – Forty hand-picked competitors will start this Friday, this adventure around the Carthusian monastery. The event is reputed to be one of the toughest in the world.
Special envoy to Saint-Pierre de Chartreuse
If an ultratrailer has the idea of one day throwing himself into the Chartreuse adventure, his curiosity will inevitably lead him to the event’s website. Or rather the only web page dedicated to it since the content is reduced to its bare minimum. Here, no grandiloquent video, nor photos highlighting the forest of the Chartreuse massif (Isère) where the event is held, no course layout either, and even less registration form. Nothing of the sort. On the photo of a river in the background, a few lines briefly describe the contours of the race and how to apply. At the bottom of the page, a Latin quote from Cicero: “Nor is there any one who wants pain itself, because it is pain, to pursue it, to gain it” (There is no one who loves suffering for its own sake, neither seeks it nor wants it for what it is…) appears under a series of results from past editions
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