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,...