FKTs (or maybe just long runs in a certain time)

  • Great Himalaya Trail, highest independent route, no outside support, October/November 2017
  • Tour de Monte Rosa, unsupported, July 2016
  • Kathmandu Valley Rim, March 2016
  • shortened Manaslu Circuit, Arughat to Dharapani (not the full loop to Besisahar), November 2015
  • Everest Base Camp to Kathmandu, 63 hrs 8 minutes, April 2013

 

World Record

  • 24hrs on the road, 247.07 km, September 2011, held until May 2013 – WORLD RECORD (ratified by IAAF)

 

Championships

  • 2011 Commonwealth Championships 24 hrs on the road, 247.07 km, gold medal, 1st place overall, world record until May 2013
  • 2010 IAU 100km World Championships, 07:33:26, bronze medal, 3rd place
  • 2009 IAU Trail World Championships, bronze medal, 3rd place
  • 2006 IAU 100km World Championships, 07:28:46, gold medal, 1st place, 2006 World Champion
  • 2006 100km UK Championships, gold medal, 1st place, 2006 National Champion

 

Personal bests

  • 24 hrs road, 247.07 kmworld record until May 2013
  • 100 km, 07:28:462006 world champion
  • 50 km, 03:21:12during 2011 Two Oceans 56 km road race
  • Marathon, 02:45:02during 2011 Two Oceans 56 km road race
  • Half-Marathon, 77:35 mins
  • 10 km, 36:26 mins
  • Fastest world performance times for 50 km and 100 km in 2006

 

Highlights

 

Awards

 

Expeditions

  • Ascent of Ama Dablam (6856), Nepal, 2007.
  • First ski mountaineering traverse of Ak-Shirak range, Kyrgyzstan, with seven first ascents, 2006.
  • Ski mountaineering traverse of Kackar range in North East Turkey, 2005.
  • First ski ascent of Kalanag (6387m), Garwhal, Indian Himalaya, 2003.

 

Other things

  • PhD in Polar Oceanography, 2005.