A 33km Run Up and Down the Giant of Provence 🗻

Simon Pastor
Be Yourself
Published in
9 min readJul 27, 2021

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“Mont Ventoux is a special mountain” Alberto Contador

685 years ago, the Mont Ventoux witnessed “one of the great moments that oscillate indecisively between the epochs” as Italian Philosopher Petrarch ascended the Mountain in what appears to be the first known account of someone climbing a mountain solely for pleasure. A truly modern feat.

@Jean-March Rosier on Wikipedia

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