Taking extreme sports to the top

August 25, 2007

The hardest of hard-core athletes took off on Friday on a gruelling race up and around Mont Blanc in the North Face Ultra-Trail championship. The fifth edition of the race will wind around 163 kilometers of Alpine trail in three countries, with nearly 9,000 meters of altitude change. More than 2,200 people this year are participating in one of the toughest runs on the planet. An AFPTV report from the starting line.