Kílian Jornet

I always said that I just love to be in the mountains and like it's where I feel home and it's where I feel like connected with the landscape and the environment and what I do is just like to explore them and I think like running or climbing or like biking or...

It's just tools to explore those mountains.

And as humans, we are made to walk and to run and to do that for hours.

That's what we did for thousands of years, just hunting.

And now we don't need to do it.

So we find the sport as the excuse to continue moving our body.

But really, for me, just to be out as long as I can in the mountains.

I think in the most, in the first essence, it's to connect with oneself.

We live in a society that we are over...

overconnected with so many things and like we are every day getting like every second like we are getting information like in social media on the news on on everything of things that they are very far away and we don't find the often the time to connect with ourselves with our body with our mind

And with our, yeah, the people that we love.

So often when I go to run in the mountains is to find this connection.

And it's through this connection with the landscape that we find ourselves.

What's funny is that both my parents, they were really far away from competition.

They had the background of classical mountaineering, and it was never about competing and winning, but it was always about exploring.

I remember when we were kids, often before going to bed, we were...

going out to the forest with my mother and we were going out for a few minutes and then we were closing our lights our headlamps and then we were like getting back to the to the lodge at the beginning we were very scared like me and my sister like okay we don't have any any light how we will find our our lodge and my mother was there like saying no just like listen to

see the nature through other senses, like with the wind, with the sounds, and we get more comfortable there.

So what they probably teach us was to

accept the environment, to accept to be there.