A Life in the Mountains: A Conversation With Hillary Gerardi Hillary Gerardi (hillary_gerardi) has been a household name in mountain sports for a good many years. A highly adaptable athlete, she has excelled at ultramarathon distances, winning the 120-kilometer Grand Raid des Pyrénées in 2015, while still very new to trail running, and more recently the 2021 Marathon du Mont Blanc 90k, as well as at shorter-distance skyraces and vertical-kilometer races. Last year, alongside friend and world champion ski mountaineer Dr. Valentine Fabre, she set the first women’s ski speed record on the Haute Route from Chamonix, France, to Zermatt, Switzerland. The route covers 66 miles of snow and glaciers with 26,000 feet of elevation gain, and the pair completed the traverse in 26 hours and 21 minutes. The life lessons provided by a long career in sport have taught the Chamonix-based American to be focused and unwavering in her goals. This August, when UTMB fever was in full swing in her hometow...