KILIAN JORNET

Kílian Jornet Burgada was born 27 October 1987 in Sabadell, Spain. He is a Spanish ski mountaineer .His  parents are Eduard Jornet and Núria Burgada. His father was a hut keeper and mountain guide. His mother is A mountain sports teacher. He won six times the long-distance running Skyrunner World Series and he won some of the most important marathons, like the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc.

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At the age of three he climbed  the three thousands in the Pyrenees. When he was five he climbed Aneto, the highest mountain in the Pyrenees, and a year later he climbed his first  four thousands,  the Breithorn in Switzerland.He started ski mountaineering in 1999 and competed for the first time at  La Molina race of the Spanish Cup in 2000. In 2003 he became a junior member of the Spanish national ski mountaineering team, and HAS BEEN a senior since 2007. Jornet studied at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia. His sister Naila Jornet Burgada and his girlfriend Emelie Forsberg also compete in ski mountaineering and skyrunning events. 

 Summits “of My Life” is a  personal project, in which he is trying to ascenD and descenD records for some of the most important mountains on the planet, and is planned to culminate with the record on Mount Everest. Finally I want to say that he wrote two books called “Run or Die” and “The Invisible Border.” I think Kilian is a persistent man with a lot of thriumps in his liFe BUT he HAS worked VERY hard to becOme the man that he is now.