Kílian Jornet

So it's not really any deep thoughts.

But then it's like, I would say most of the time,

It's just like enjoying it.

And I was doing like the past September a long project here in the US, like from Colorado to Washington.

Yeah, exactly.

Like I was biking and running and mostly on all these national parks.

Like it's so wild, the nature.

And it wasn't technically demanding, so I could like really enjoy the landscapes and just like arriving to a summit and seeing a nice sunrise and the shape of the mountains and having an encounter with an elk or any wildlife like goats in the summits.

And it's just like having those encounters and being amazed.

I mean, every day, like I go up and I look around and it's like, that's beautiful.

It was very physically demanding.

I mean, it was very demanding for the body, but technically it was not dangerous and it was not technical climbing with the skills that I believe I have.

But physically it was very challenging, mostly because it was so big and...

Sometimes in this journey I was for more than almost 60 hours without passing any village.

So then you need to carry a lot of things and that's very physically demanding.

Like the first week I was feeling horrible, like it was the altitude plus the dry air plus the physical effort that I was doing for more than 20 hours every day.

Like I just, I was on my edge.

And then suddenly, I really felt that my body stopped to fight those things and started to adapt.

And I don't know how to describe it, but I really had this feeling of, like, my body opening up and accepting what I was putting on it.

And at the end of the trip, like, I could, like, continue for another month.