{"id":65458,"date":"2022-08-23T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorersweb.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=65458"},"modified":"2022-08-23T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:57:31","slug":"runner-dies-in-fall-at-2022-ptl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/runner-dies-in-fall-at-2022-ptl\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner Dies in Fall at UTMB Mont-Blanc Team Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UTMB Mont-Blanc organization has announced that a participant in the PTL <a href=\"https:\/\/utmbmontblanc.com\/en\/page\/23\/ptl%3Csup%3E%C2%AE%3C-sup%3E.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Petite Trotte \u00e0 L\u00e9on)<\/a>, one of the UTMB Mont-Blanc events, has died as a result of a fall.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irunfar.com\/runner-dies-in-fall-at-2022-ptl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iRunFar<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The 2022 PTL, <a href=\"https:\/\/utmbmontblanc.com\/en\/page\/23\/ptl%3Csup%3E%C2%AE%3C-sup%3E.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 290-kilometre event<\/a> with 26,500 m of ascent where entrants participate in teams of two or three, began at 8 a.m. CEST on Monday, Aug. 22, in Chamonix, France.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We sadly report that a Brazilian runner died in a fall last night during the 290-kilometer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PTL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PTL<\/a>, part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UTMB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UTMB<\/a> Mont-Blanc event. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lf7WOEtZn7\">https:\/\/t.co\/Lf7WOEtZn7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 iRunFar (@iRunFar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iRunFar\/status\/1561986628889059329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The organization states that it learned of a severe accident at 1:30 a.m. CEST on August 23, during the first night of the nearly weeklong event. It occurred on an established trail between Col de Tricot and the Refuge de Plan Glacier, high above the French town of Les Contamines on the southwest side of the Mont Blanc massif.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65460\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65460\" class=\"size-large wp-image-65460\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151321\/Col-de-Tricot-2022-PTL-runner-death-700x467.jpeg\" alt=\"2022 ptl death\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151321\/Col-de-Tricot-2022-PTL-runner-death-700x467.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151321\/Col-de-Tricot-2022-PTL-runner-death-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151321\/Col-de-Tricot-2022-PTL-runner-death-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151321\/Col-de-Tricot-2022-PTL-runner-death.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Col de Tricot. Photo: Guilhem Vellut via Wiki Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to this year&#8217;s PTL course map <a href=\"https:\/\/live.utmb.world\/utmb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Livetrail<\/a>, the live-tracking application, this was somewhere between kilometres 36 and 40 of the course. The Col de Tricot is at 2,114m above sea level and Refuge de Plan Glacier is at 2,711m above sea level. The race organization confirms that there was good weather at the location at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65459\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65459\" class=\"size-large wp-image-65459\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151319\/2022-PTL-UTMB-Mont-Blanc-fall-death-700x562.jpeg\" alt=\"2022 ptl death\" width=\"700\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151319\/2022-PTL-UTMB-Mont-Blanc-fall-death-700x562.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151319\/2022-PTL-UTMB-Mont-Blanc-fall-death-300x241.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151319\/2022-PTL-UTMB-Mont-Blanc-fall-death-768x617.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151319\/2022-PTL-UTMB-Mont-Blanc-fall-death.jpeg 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2022 PTL course is shown in the purple line, with the accident site inside the red circle, between the Col de Tricot and the Refuge de Plan Glacier, on the southwest side of the Mont Blanc massif in France. Image: screenshot from the UTMB Mont-Blanc website with modification by iRunFar.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A rescue helicopter responded to the scene, and confirmed the death of a Brazilian national. To respect the individual&#8217;s family and friends, the organization will not release the victim&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>According to the race organization, this year\u2019s PTL saw 105 teams start. At this time the PTL continues, and each team is being given the opportunity to continue participating or not.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65461\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65461\" class=\"size-large wp-image-65461\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151323\/Refuge-de-Plan-Glacier-2022-PTL-runner-death-700x525.jpeg\" alt=\"2022 ptl death\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151323\/Refuge-de-Plan-Glacier-2022-PTL-runner-death-700x525.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151323\/Refuge-de-Plan-Glacier-2022-PTL-runner-death-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151323\/Refuge-de-Plan-Glacier-2022-PTL-runner-death-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/www.explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23151323\/Refuge-de-Plan-Glacier-2022-PTL-runner-death.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Refuge de Plan Glacier. Photo: Jerome Bon via Wiki Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irunfar.com\/2021-tds-runner-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Czech runner died in a fall during the 2021 TDS race<\/a> at the UTMB Mont-Blanc festival, leading to the cancellation of the race for most runners. (Those who passed ahead of the accident, roughly the top 20% of the field, were allowed to continue.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brazilian runner has passed away due to a fall during the 2022 UTMB Mont-Blanc festival\u2019s 290-kilometer team event, the PTL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4736,"featured_media":65464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[98],"coauthors":[150],"class_list":["post-65458","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Runner Dies in Fall at UTMB Mont-Blanc Team Event &#187; Explorersweb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Brazilian runner has passed away due to a fall during the 2022 UTMB Mont-Blanc festival\u2019s 290km team event, the PTL.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irunfar.com\/runner-dies-in-fall-at-2022-ptl\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Runner Dies in Fall at UTMB Mont-Blanc Team Event &#187; 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