At 11 a.m. local time on Saturday, the 2026 Silk Road Mountain Race started in Talas, Kyrgyzstan. The Silk Road is the longest of the ‘Mountain Races’ —more than 2,000 km (1,250 miles)—and arguably the hardest, with more than 36,000 m (119,000 ft) of climbing in some of the world’s highest mountains. The… read more