BAREFOOT running in the Osaka mountains as a toddler. Early-morning bakery shifts as a wayward teenager. Celtic talisman Daizen Maeda didn’t take the most conventional route on his way to the top.

The new record for the fastest barefoot half marathon on ice was set on an open circuit in a valley near the highest mountain in Czechia (previously referred to as the Czech Republic), measured by ...

Interview with French climber Charles Albert who, bouldering barefoot, has climbed up to 8C in Fontainebleau, France. French boulderer Charles Albert shot to fame recently with his repeats of some of ...