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Mark Bourne

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Mark is a renowned mountain runner and stair racer. As a young runner he always enjoyed hills and found them to be his strength in cross country races as a junior. It helped him stamp his mark with a win at the U20 Australian Cross Country Championships on a tough course at Nowra in 2002. So it was a natural transition into mountain running and then stair/tower running, which follows in the footsteps of some great runners from Canberra. The discipline of  stair running is growing with mor...
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Campbell Harrison

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La Sportiva climber Campbell Harrison  faces his biggest challenge as he attempts to earn a spot on the Australian climbing team and qualify for the 2020 Olympics. Climbing in the 2020 Olympics Climbing will be in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In addition to climbing, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) added karate, skateboarding, and surfing. 40 climbers will make it to the Olympics. 20 women, 20 men. They will compete in three disciplines: Sport climbing Boulde...
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Patagonia – Zac Vertrees

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About as close as Matt and I got to climbing Cerro Torre. This was the morning after being lost in a whiteout..... We stumbled upon several other party's of random voices! Austin Siadak was in a similar boat, but determined to go up and over... Then the mist cleared and we had one the best days in two months of inclement weather climbing Domo Blanco
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Zac Vertrees

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Zac is at home in the mountains! From the start there living in the outskirts of western Sydney he had access to some of the best climbing in Australia when he started his pursuit for hills. Climbing for over 20 years Zac is not only one of Australia's best sports climbers, but now his love of trad climbing and those mountain routes has taken him to new adventure playgrounds over the globe... Epic Journey About as close as Matt and I got to climbing Cerro Torre. This was the morning after be...
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Gill Fowler

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Gill completed in her first 24 hour Rogaining event in 2006 and since then she has Rogained socially and competed in State, Australian and World Championships. In 2009 she started trail running regularly around the local Sydney bushland tracks with friends, and since 2010 has been entering trail races of increasing frequency and distance. She says, “the best thing about Rogaining and trail running is the new places I get to explore (and the people I get to meet). As there is always another m...
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Beth Cardelli

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Beth has always kept active while growing up, but it wasn’t until she was 27 that she gave trail running a go. It didn’t take long for her to discover the pleasures and rewards of trail running. For Beth trail running is an excuse to travel, a way to meet friends, a means of exploring new and exciting places. “Trail running started as a means of keeping fit. When I first started I thought 10km runs were exhausting. The more I ran, however, the more I found that I could push through the mental an...
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Scott Hawker

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Scotty Hawker is a name that is well known in the ultra running community. Having only been involved in trail and ultra running for a few years he earned an impressive 12th place in the 2014 Ultra Trail World Tour overall rankings. Although fairly new to ultras, sports and running have always played an important part in Scotty’s life. He ran his first marathon at the age of 17 and has competed in triathlon and multisport events, including the New Zealand Duathlon Championships in 2005. Scotty...
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