Ultra

Ultra

The organiser calls it the Valais crossing in concentrated form: 6,000 m of ascent and 6,570 m of descent, from Salvan over the mountains to the shore of Lake Geneva. Nine refuelling posts stood on the route, one of them a welfare station, and the race carries five ITRA points at an advanced level, with no qualifying points needed to enter. The race bib doubled as a public transport ticket between Le Bouveret or Martigny and Salvan on the day before and the day of the race.

An evening start means the whole field ran into the night straight away. The organiser expected a fastest time around 12 hours and the last runners at about 32.5 hours, so the back of the field saw a second evening before reaching the lake. This page belongs to the 2026 Ultra.

For family at home, the hard part is the first night, when nothing arrives except silence. On Livebib the runner shares a link that opens in a browser, with no account and no app, showing the position on the course line, the distance covered and a finish estimate in Le Bouveret that updates as the race goes. When the phone loses its signal in the dark, the position is carried forward along the course and marked as estimated instead of freezing.