Congratulations to Sunmaya Budha (left), an 18 year old from remote Jumla, Nepal who, at the beginning of this month, became the Asian SkyRunning Championships Ultra SkyMarathon^® champion – her friend Purna Laxmi took silver medal.

She won the title, but came second in the race. But, second to who? No less than the current Trail Running World Champion, Caroline Chaverot. Sunmaya has only a teeny tiny history of running trail races: a 12 km race in January, 30 km in September, a stage-race around Manaslu in November. And then this 50+ km race in Hong Kong, 20km longer than any race she’d run before.