MONTANE SPINE RACE:

One of the world’s toughest trail races

Billed as one of the most brutal trail runs anywhere across the globe, the Montane Spine Race is a 268-mile run across the spine of England, following the Pennine Way from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders. This January, 121 ultra-runners took on the winter challenge – and here’s how they got on...

“People walk for quiet recreation, to be part of something living and eternal, to lose themselves in something bigger, something that we all came from. Before there were cities there was land, and somewhere in our DNA we have a deep understanding of that.” Mike Harding The Great Outdoors, June 2004