← All eventsTor des Glaciers (TOR450)
The extreme TORX sister to Tor des Géants: ~450km / 32,000m D+ single-stage, semi-self-sufficient on the highest glacial routes of the Aosta Valley, 6-8 days, ~190h limit — reserved for prior TOR330 finishers. Date approximate (mid-September).
The extreme sister to the Tor des Géants, and effectively the hardest mountain ultra that exists. 450km and 32,000m of climbing on the highest, wildest glacial routes above Italy's Aosta Valley.
A single-stage race where the clock never stops. No pacers, widely-spaced life bases, and long committing legs through remote glacial terrain. You carry yourself for the gaps.
The 2025 winner took nearly 125 hours. Most runners are out for six to eight days against a roughly 190-hour limit. You cannot even enter without a Tor des Géants finish, and it still steps up hard.
Who finishes, and how
Patterns like these, drawn straight from 2025 race data, are baked into how Beina coaches you for this event.
Is Tor des Glaciers (TOR450) for you?
- Prior Tor des Géants finishers only. This is not a first extreme ultra: you arrive already knowing what a week on your feet in the Alps costs.
- Runners with quads built for descent. 32,000m of drop over glacial rock and scree destroys untrained legs long before the cutoff.
- Athletes who can manage their own sleep. With no pacer and many nights out, timing naps at widely-spaced life bases is the real race.
- Self-sufficient mountain runners. Long committing legs with few aid points reward those who carry for the gap and look after themselves.
Training plan for Tor des Glaciers (TOR450)
A training plan for Tor des Glaciers (TOR450) isn't a generic base build. Beina reads the event's exact demands, looks at your specific profile and the time you actually have, and maps a highly adapted plan to the start line.
- 32,000m of climbing and equal descent, roughly a third more than the TOR330
- Six to eight days moving continuously, no pacer, sleep you manage yourself
- The highest, most remote glacial cols: cold, exposed, technical, few aid points
- Many nights on course, forcing calories through cold, nausea and deep sleep debt
- Big-vert mountain days of 8 to 12 hours targeting 3,000 to 5,000m of climbing
- Back-to-back-to-back mountain days, building to triples like 10h / 7h / 6h
- Technical downhill repeats to condition quads and footwork for the glacial descents
- Multi-night sleep-deprivation runs: through the night, short planned nap, keep going, fully self-managed
- Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
- Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
- Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
- One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
