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Rab’s adventures on film at Love Trails Festival

Adventure Film Night — Taking place between July 2-6, Rab are screening six documentaries at the festival that explore the remarkable world of the adventure sport community.

  • Sport
  • Roxana Diba

The wild, gruelling beauty of fell running

Winner Gets Cake — With no marked route and often brutal conditions, the “quintessentially British sport” is the subject of a new joint film by TCO and Rab. Hannah Bentley explores its vertical climbs, downhill dashes and punk roots.

  • Sport
  • Hannah Bentley

Imprisonment, illness, internal strife: Deo Kato’s mammoth run for justice

STEPS — Spanning 17 months, 21 countries and two continents, the Ugandan born athlete ran from Cape Town to London to raise awareness of racism and migration stories, while trying to find his own place in the world. A new film explores his obstacle-filled path and what he learned along the way.

  • Sport
  • Olivia Fee
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In photos: The UK’s first trail-running powered club night

Trail Sonified – Staged in a car park on the edge of the Lake District, Merrell turned data gathered from athletes into a full-blown party at Kendal Mountain Festival, in a collision of underground music and overground sport.

  • Music
  • Ella Glossop
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Dora Atim: “Bravery is going off piste”

Ultra Black Running — Ahead of Kendal Mountain Festival, Phil Young catches up with the running influencer to hear about her work and building a community, while tracing how brand support for diversity initiatives has dwindled in recent years. 

  • The Outsiders Project
  • Phil Young

We Run Mountains: Black Trail Runners tackle Infinite Trails

Soaking up the altitude and adrenaline at Europe’s flagship trail running event, high in the Austrian Alps, with three rising British runners of colour.

  • The Outsiders Project
  • Phil Young

The rogue runners taking on New York state

400 miles. Three days. Welcome to Southbound 400.

  • Huck 81
  • Sarah Kearns

The first all-Women of Colour team to race Infinite Trails

Three Black Trail Runners members meet to train in Wales’ Eryri National Park, before taking on the team challenge of adidas TERREX Infinite Trails 2023 in Austria.

  • The Outsiders Project
  • Phil Young

Photos that capture the sacrifice of the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc

Shot through the eyes of elite trail runner Jamie Mourn, this photo essay captures the agony and ecstasy of the UTMB.

  • Merrell
  • HUCK HQ

Black Trail Runners on why they do what they do

In partnership with adidas Terrex — Members of Black Trail Runners share some of their reasons to run as part of #UnitedBySummits, a campaign that looks to uncover transformative power of the outdoors.

  • Outsiders Project
  • Huck

Meet the running community reclaiming the great outdoors

In partnership with Squarespace — People of colour get little representation in outdoor culture – but Black Trail Runners aims to change that. In the final instalment of Future Proof, produced in partnership with Squarespace, the group explains how they’re working to transform it for the better.

  • Outdoors
  • HUCK HQ

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