Journey to the End of Endurance

Lizzy Hawker was 29 years old in 2005, when she presented herself for the first time, without experience, at the start of the legendary Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc. 170 kilometers and 10,000 vertical drop meters later, she won the race, the first victory in a very long series.

Gifted at ultra-endurance, she always pushes the search for her limits further, moving from the Alps to the Himalayas. Three times she runs in one go from Everest base camp to Kathmandu. While traveling through Nepal, a country she loves, she explores her abilities, her pleasure of running ever further, but also her suffering, her doubts, her wounds; it explores the limits of resistance, resilience, endurance. She tries to figure out why she is running and why, one day, her exhausted body let go. Lizzy Hawker is simple, touching, and fiercely ambitious. By recounting for the first time her life as a "runner", she reveals herself as a writer: she hides nothing and shares her pleasures, her setbacks ... and her inner and spiritual search to overcome the ordeal.