The Hardest Race of My Life (UTMB)

Join us as Nate attempts UTMB Mont Blanc: 108 miles through 3 countries, & the vertical elevation of Mt. Everest - all in 40 hours! Use my link to get a FREE Frother with your first purchase of AGZ!!: drinkag1.com/karaandnate Thank you AG1 for sponsoring this video :)

Episode 970 | Filmed August 2025 | Chamonix, France, Italy, and Switzerland

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Who are Kara and Nate?!

2016-2019: www.youtube.com/watch

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Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, we got married 2013 and were super “normal.” I was a teacher and Nate started a small printing business from the spare bedroom of our apartment.

We discovered the world of “travel hacking” while planning our honeymoon & became addicted ;)

So after 2 years of obsessively saving $35k and over 2 million miles and points, we sold our cars and apartment and left home January 10, 2016 for a “one year” trip around the world.

Our goal was to see as many places as possible before we ran out of money and went back home to “normal life.” We started this channel to share our experiences with friends and family, but quickly fell in love with living on the road and found a new passion for capturing our travels through video. So we did everything we could to keep going.

4 years later, we achieved our new goal of visiting 100 countries and all 7 continents. We had no plans to slow down, until 2020 forced us to ;) Which is when we bought a converted van to start exploring our own country for the first time!

After ~2 years of van life, we are back to full time international traveling! And now we are in our 10TH YEAR of finding the best adventures the world has to offer :)

We are incredibly grateful to be able to continue doing something we love every day. 😊🎥🌎 Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our journey!

0:00 What is UTMB?
3:30 Starting line
6:11 mile 1 the rain begins…
11:09 14 miles in St. Gervais
13:19 mile 20 Les Cantamines aid station
17:02 worst night of nate’s life
26:30 52 miles in Courmayeur
32:06 first place finishers
33:10 Kara’s crew bag
35:30 we’re struggling
40:12 24 hours of running
41:42 mile 81 Champex-Lac
44:58 hallucinating
47:34 mile 90 Trient
52:14 mile 99 Vallorcine
55:00 more hallucinations
56:52 finish line!!
101:50 what’s next?