Pyrenees
Oct 5–12, 2026 · 7 days
Oct 5–12, 2026
7 days
Up to 12 participants
0 of 12 left
Trail Running
The challenge
The first morning in Espot is quiet. You check in, find your feet, and share a first dinner together. Tomorrow the mountains open up, and you can feel it coming.
Then you go high. Day two takes you through Aigüestortes National Park, 16 km of lakes and granite ridgelines. You climb past Refugio Amitges to the top of Tuc de la Ratera at 2,861m. That is over 1,300m of climbing, so your legs will know it. You sleep in mountain refuges, close to the rock and the sky. Some days are gentle. Others, like the big drop to Cerler, send you down nearly 1,700m through high alpine ground.
You will run with Dioni Gorla. She is an Austrian trail runner who races on alpine and ultra terrain across Central Europe. She knows this kind of mountain in her bones, and she runs in two languages, so the whole team feels at home. Going with her means going with someone who truly belongs up there.
This is hard. Seven days, real distance, real climbing, thin air and long descents. If you stay for the Extended days, you finish in Ordesa & Monte Perdido, a UNESCO World Heritage land of limestone walls. The last day climbs 1,600m to the Balcón de Pineta. Every metre earns the view.
The nights bring it all back down. A barbecue at the casa rural. Cooking Spanish dishes together, tired and happy. Picture that. The day done, the peaks still glowing, and the smell of food on the fire.
The hard bit
It's meant to be hard.
This isn't a holiday. You'll be cold, tired, and a long way past your comfort zone. That's the deal, not the warning. The hard bit is the whole reason the rest of it means anything.
The team
You don't do it alone.
You go with a small group who signed up for the same mad idea. You meet them before you leave. You suffer with them out there. You come home with them as friends.
Dioni Gorla
You're with Dioni, properly.
Not a meet-and-greet. Not a photo at the finish. Dioni is on the trip with you, every single day. Same trail, same camp, same fire. You get to know the person, not the name.
Who leads
Dioni Gorla
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Here's what actually happens.
You apply. Not everyone gets a spot, so tell us why you want to come. We read every word.
If you're in, you're on the team. That's the bit people don't expect. This isn't a tour where you turn up on day one with a clipboard and a coach full of strangers. Weeks before we go, you meet everyone. We get the whole team on a call. You see the faces, learn the names, hear why each person signed up. By the time you land, these aren't strangers. They're your team.
Then you go and do something hard, together. Dionileads. You climb, you carry, you keep going. Some of it hurts. That's the point. Shared adversity is the fastest way to know people properly, and you come home with a group of friends you'd never have found any other way.
You don't need to be a pro. You just need to be up for it.
Apply for a place
You apply for a place; you don't buy one. We read every form. The wrong person on a mountain ruins it for everyone.
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