South Africa’s most successful desert runner is a shooting star. Ryan Sandes from Capetown came out of nowhere when in 2008, he scored a start-to-finish victory at the „4 Deserts Gobi March”… Gripmaster got to go...
The long-haired giant stands in the wind on a rock. He is overlooking an endless green mountain range, which is clearly visible to the horizon. At his feet, a cliff drops almost one kilometer straight down into a rocky canyon. The...
Twelve years ago, some locals and farmers of the southafrican Drakensberg region had the idea to traverse their land in one day, on foot. Out of a friendly hike has become one of the toughest trailruns that the black continent has...
There it is! The very first pair of the brand-new XT S-Lab 2, which will be in the shops this summer! And the Gripmaster is lucky three times. First, because I have the great honour to test them. Second, because it has been warm and...
Totally mad trailrunners blasting through the roughest trails around three times a day in bright sunlight and downright spring temperatures, while testing the newest Salomon prototypes straight out of the Research and Development Department,...
Kilian’s Quest starts into the second season. In the first short film, there are some impressive images of Kilian’s winter season and great running impressions from his first kilometers of...
Trailrunning in its purest form: park the gripmobile next to an unknown forest, head straight into the woods and from then on just follow the landscape where it’s the most fun…
The film about Stephan and Babsi Tassani’s record run around the
world-famous lake in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.
Can you run around the Königsse in under six hours? And – if so, how fast can...
Here it is, the Gripmaster’s director’s cut of the Transalpine Run 2009.
Eight days, 500 runners, the Alps…. an epic undertaking which, at it’s fifth edition was
tackling the fabulous...
South Africa’s most successful desert runner is a shooting star. Ryan Sandes from Capetown came out of nowhere when in 2008, he scored a start-to-finish victory at the „4 Deserts Gobi March”…...
3 days of trail shoe testing in Riva del Garda in Italy…
3 runners ran 280 kilometers to check out the newest models from all over the world.
It was hard work but very interesting!
The full test...
Storm “Daisy” has neglected us for the whole weekend and only provided the rest of Europe with that fun fluffy accessory, snow…
But finally! It’s snowing…. So it’s time...
In all of Europe, winter makes an impressive entrance, only here in the bavarian Alps, he seems to be taking a break… While northern Germany, France and England are battling the powder, we are running...
Today I went for a run with a guy whose photo is in the current issue of GQ magazine!
Yeah right, you say.. who might that be? Is Di Caprio jogging on the beach? Did some supermodel residing in Camps Bay...
At least it wasn’t sleeping last night, when nine headlamp-equipped Trailrunners blasted through the trails on Devil’s Peak. Leading man Roger cut corners at right angles and the last runner...
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