Millet Rutor Extrme Tour 2012: the Large Course waiting in Valle d'Aosta

"The Big Course is something really special," he recently declared champion Iberian Mireia Miró, reigning world champion in individual and vertical, winning the last World Cup and leading to partial Great Course of the French Championships in 2010 Laetitia Roux. "The evidence of this circuit are all beautiful, with beautiful paths and a superb environment which symbolizes the spirit of mountaineering. We are talking about race 'myth altitude', in short. " And

Roux - both expected to start in the Tour du Rutor Millet Extrême the end of March - fully confirms the words of Spanish. "What I like are the ridges, gullies, the mountain," says the Alps, "and that is why the Great Course is a bunch of races" fundamentals "of the sport. The setting is great, there is mixed with other nations, you run with people with whom there is a sporting feel and performance is the highest level because it runs with the companions of your caliber. I'd say it's a spell to share the happiness of these races. "

the Swiss former world champion Florent Troillet emphasizes what he calls the "spirit group", which is crucial in the team events. "The events of the Great Course all have a very good story. The prefer because they take place at altitude in the Alps, and runs the team. The world of ski mountaineering is a small family: one that gives us the opportunity to progress together as solidarity and sharing. In a competition for teams of 2 or 3 athletes, there emerges the spirit of the rope. "

The three stages of the Tour du Rutor Millet Extrême 2012 covering a total of more than 7,000 meters in altitude with memorable passages like the Cigar at 2,760 meters, Mont-Arp Vielle (2963 m), the Château Mont Blanc ( 3,422 m) and the Tete du Rutor (3485 m), the latter with a stretch of 110 meters walk / dsl equipped with fixed ropes up to the highest point of the whole competition. Telling the Aosta Valley

three days in so few lines is very simplistic, we think the players at the end of March to live and let live, meter by meter, up to where only the hardiest dare to go. At Millet Rutor Extrême Tour 2012 will be in the race to the categories Junior youth (three days) and Cadets (only on Sunday 1 April) that will run on tracks in sweetened lengths and gradients.

16.a edition of the Tour du Rutor Extrême Millet, organized once again by SC Corrado Gex with the support of the Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta, the Municipalities of Arvier and Valgrisenche, is also part of trophe ; des Alpes and dedicated to youth groups and assigns the Memorial Trophy Free Ride and Remo Bredy, the latter reserved for the best team of athletes resident in Valle d'Aosta.