HIGH DRY

Just before the great white birds started to go into hibernation and life was suddenly locked down in 2020, I met up with Cory Wallace in the Golden Triangle mountains of Thailand – a typically wild and random place to hook up with the four-time 24-hour solo world champ. He was about to head out to Nepal to train, with no inkling that he’d end up stranded in the Himalayas for 11 months, only to then get stuck again, this time in Africa – where he’d set a new world record with an impromptu ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro! This is his story.

Living the dream

For the past dozen years, the Kona Endurance Team racer has earned his crust by taking on epic MTB races and challenges. In between winning these bucket-list events, the self-confessed ‘small-town kid from the Rockies’ more or less lives out of bikepacking bags and pedals his way around the world for training. A dream lifestyle? Perhaps, but in recent