My life and my work are born, grow and make sense in the mountains. Living and working in the Pyrenees gives me a real, everyday view of its challenges, and I try to explain and bring this territory closer to society. Because we can only protect what we truly know.

I focus on climate change and the mountains in the Pyrenees, through MeteoPirineus that connects science, education and local communities. With initiatives like “ODS al Pirineu” and school campaigns, I speak about these issues in a clear, accessible way. The project “El Pirineu que emociona”, recognised with the Pica d’Estats 2026 award, uses audiovisual capsules to tell the story of the Pyrenees, its climate, ski resorts and mountain safety.

As a Kilian Jornet Foundation Ambassador, I want to keep share¡ing what is happening in our mountains. I bring deep knowledge of the territory, experience in projects that link science and education, and the ability to reach thousands of people with rigorous but approachable content. My goal is to be an active agent on the ground, helping to mobilise communities and generate real impact in the mountains.

My connection with nature has always been deeply personal. Through hiking, trail running, and my work in conservation, I have learned that experiencing natural landscapes firsthand is one of the most powerful ways to inspire people to protect them.

As founder of Wild Space, I work to connect communities with nature through storytelling, outdoor experiences, and conservation initiatives across Singapore and Southeast Asia. Over the years, I have helped build a growing network of nature advocates by creating opportunities for people to explore biodiversity, learn from local communities, and engage with environmental issues in meaningful ways.

As a Kilian Jornet Foundation Ambassador, I want to use outdoor sports as a bridge between people and nature. Through guided hikes, trail runs, and educational programmes, I hope to inspire more people, especially young generations, to appreciate mountain ecosystems, understand the challenges they face, and become active stewards of the natural environments they enjoy.

I am an activist, athlete, scientist, and creative whose work is rooted in conservation and public lands. Over six years as the head of one of the largest nonprofit trail stewardships in the Western U.S., I helped organize more than 100 volunteer trail days and 60,000 hours of trail work, personally managing over 400 miles of trail across multiple land agencies.

My focus has been designing, building, and restoring trails that reconnect people with nature. I have created over 50 miles of trail, including two networks in Ventura, California, that turned retired oil fields into 20 miles of paths now visited by 175,000 people a year, many from nature-poor backgrounds, and led invasive species removal and environmental restoration. As a long-time Protect Our Winters athlete and science ambassador, I have advocated for climate and public lands in Washington, D.C., and been nationally recognised for advancing trails and public lands.

As a Kilian Jornet Foundation Ambassador, I want to bring public lands advocacy into trail running events through book talks, mindfulness runs, letter-writing actions, and volunteer trail work days across the West. Partnering with NNormal athletes and KJF Ambassadors, I hope to activate thousands of runners and ultimately carry their voices to Washington, D.C., while also contributing national-level writing on climate, public lands, and Kilian’s projects. I believe every outdoor runner has a role in protecting nature, and the Kilian Jornet Foundation is a way to turn that belief into action.

In 2020 I co-founded For Wild Places and have since served as CEO, helping grow an idea into an Australian charity with a team, board and national volunteer network. Through projects like the Pilliga Ultra, the Run for Country documentary and the TRACTION trail stewardship program, we bring runners, local communities and First Nations leaders together to protect the places we love to explore.

I grew up on a sheep and wheat farm in south-eastern Australia and watched the millennium drought turn our land to dust, learning how fragile the relationship between people and landscape can be. That experience drives me to lead climate justice campaigns, engage in politics and non-violent action, and use sport as a vehicle for positive change.

As a Kilian Jornet Foundation Ambassador, I want to traverse Australia’s most threatened wild landscapes, following ephemeral paths such as migratory routes and moving through places facing climate impacts, fossil fuel projects and native forest logging. Along the way I will learn from local communities and use writing and photography to share honest stories that connect people to concrete ways to take action, bringing Australia’s climate realities into a global conversation.

My work connects environmental conservation with social inclusion through outdoor sports. I have joined KJF initiatives restoring trails in La Cerdanya and running the Ultra Clean Marathon, combining trail running with waste collection to remove rubbish from natural spaces.

I also act as a young role model in organisations like Transpirenaica Social Solidaria and Enforma Inspira. Using mountain sports and nature, I help guide young people at risk of exclusion and share values such as teamwork, resilience and respect for the environment.

As a KJF Ambassador, I want to take these young people to the mountains so they move from spectators to active caretakers. By organising several trips each year focused on cleaning, repairing and caring for trails, my goal is to create visible impact on nature and, at the same time, teach about biodiversity, climate change, sustainability and the values needed to protect our environment.

Back in 2023 I founded Peak Fell and Trail Crew, a fell running community in the Peak District National Park that is now moving towards England Athletics affiliation. We started as a small group and have grown by breaking down barriers to fell running through free social runs, navigation training, trail clean initiatives and a kit pool that makes the right equipment accessible to anyone who wants to join.

Through Peak Fell and Trail Crew we partner with organisations like Trash Free Trails and attend annual crag clean-ups, using camping weekends and group runs to promote leave no trace principles while caring for local trails and crags. Our donated kit pool helps people who might otherwise be excluded from hill running to take part safely, reinforcing the idea that the trails should be open to everyone, not just those with specialist gear.

As a KJF Ambassador and run coach, I would like to host a series of runs in UK national parks with underrepresented and minority groups, offering simple, practical education on how to access the outdoors. This includes basic map reading, low-cost safety kit guidance and everyday trail respect, from picking up trash to avoiding noise pollution, so more people can enjoy the hills confidently and help look after them.

My work as a National Geographic photographer documenting polar science has reached millions of readers and shown how visual storytelling can make complex climate research tangible and urgent. From “Stories Trapped in Ice” in National Geographic to features in Science Magazine, I have focused on turning data into narratives people can feel and understand.

Global stories, however, need local roots. I live on the coast of the Öresund Strait in southern Sweden and co-founded Öresund Patrol, a cross-border Swedish-Danish marine research, education, and conservation organisation working where four million people depend on the sea outside their doors. Our work connects research, education and direct action, from active biodiversity monitoring, assisting universities with data collection, to engaging local communities above and below the surface.

As a KJF Ambassador, I want to build a visual storytelling series that links trails and coastal recreation with marine conservation, pairing stories of runners, swimmers and coastal communities with underwater narratives from the same coastline. My goal is simple: to show people what lives in the water they train beside, and to help them see that the marine ecosystems of Öresund and the mountain environments KJF defends share the same fragility and need for care. If people can clearly see what is at stake, most will choose to protect it.

I am a semi-professional ski mountaineering athlete, part-time environmental science and engineering student, and camera runner and sports filmmaker, with the long-term goal of becoming a mountain guide. Growing up among glaciers in Switzerland, I have seen the impacts of climate change in my own backyard, which is why I do my best to avoid flying and to travel by train whenever possible.

Within the skimo community, I try to show that more sustainable training and travel are compatible with high performance. I have begun collaborating with the ISMF to develop sustainability guidelines for federations and athletes, and I travel to races by train, as I did for a 60+ hour journey to Tromsø where I still reached the podium. These experiences have prompted other athletes to ask questions and to join me on more climate-conscious trips.

As a KJF Ambassador, I want to use my role in ski mountaineering to make sustainability a source of motivation rather than a constraint. My aim is to keep training and competing at the highest level while sharing practical ways to reduce our impact, starting in skimo and extending to other outdoor sports through the Foundation’s network. Being part of the team would add weight to my actions and connect me with people who share the same mountain-focused values, helping us develop concrete, large-scale change in a sport that is directly endangered by climate change.

Eight years ago, at 22, I decided to cycle around the world with my cousin to meet plastic waste solutions. On that journey I understood how fast the planet is changing and how powerful storytelling and adventures can be to drive behavioural change. For the last seven years I have continued this path with Swim for Change, the NGO I co‑founded.

Last September I attempted to swim across the Atlantic Ocean to educate children on ocean conservation. More than 100,000 children aged 8 to 12 took part in a 12‑week educational program that followed the adventure, and in 2026 I am performing a show in over 50 French schools to keep raising awareness. In parallel, I am lobbying at French and EU level to create a School Ocean Week that could have a massive impact on future generations.

As a KJF Ambassador, I want to use adventure‑based storytelling to put ocean protection at the heart of education. My goal is to scale the impact of Swim for Change, connect ocean issues with the wider climate and mountain crisis, and inspire the next generation to care for the blue part of the planet they depend on.

I am an atmospheric physicist and environmental journalist who has spent the last years connecting mountain science with public debate through climate activism, media work and education. As former president of Protect Our Winters Italy, board member of CIPRA International and Italian ambassador of the European Climate Pact, I have worked to bridge the gap between Alpine climate research, policy processes and the outdoor community.

I chose the mountains through my PhD, spending years in high-altitude research stations measuring winds and orographic dynamics, until I felt the need to take science out of the lab and into society. Since then I have become a communicator and activist focused on making the climate crisis legible for people who do not read scientific papers, and I see KJF as the ideal home for this work: a foundation that unites scientific rigour, mountain culture and local leadership in defence of fragile alpine environments.

With the Kilian Jornet Foundation I would like to develop Read the Mountain. Guided trail running and hiking events across key Alpine destinations such as Cervinia, Chamonix, Zermatt, Gressoney and Canazei. Each event combines a run or hike with several short “science stops” led by local researchers, where participants collect snow and ice samples, measure rock and soil temperature or log biodiversity observations, contributing to ongoing glacier, permafrost and ecosystem monitoring.