Rémi Bonnet

From goat hay to crystal globes 🐐

Before devouring elevation gain, Rémi Bonnet devours the trails overlooking Charmey, where he learned to run while keeping an eye on the Gastlosen, that limestone rampart that closes off his village’s horizon. For him, the mountain never required any travel, since it starts right at his doorstep. In 2015, at just 20 years old, he won the Skyrunner World Series title in the vertical kilometer, and right afterward Salomon spotted him and brought him into its international team alongside the best specialists of the vertical format 🏆. The tone of his career was set: that of a climber who shoots toward the summits far faster than he ever plans to come back down. His win at Zegama-Aizkorri in 2018 launched a streak that peaked in 2022 and 2023, when he captured the overall standings of the Golden Trail World Series two years in a row, the biggest trail circuit on the planet 🌍.

When winter comes, he puts the running shoes away to click into skis and stick on the skins. In 2022, he won the legendary Patrouille des Glaciers, one of the most feared ski mountaineering races in the world.

Rémi Bonnet, the climber the fracture didn’t break 💪

In spring 2025, just after another victory at the Neirivue-Moléson race, the verdict comes down with no appeal: a tibial stress fracture. For a runner whose entire craft is about absorbing steep gradients for hours on end, the injury hits exactly where it matters 🩹 . Many would have written off the season and waited until the following winter. Rémi, for his part, chooses to climb back up the slope rather than endure it. On September 25, 2025, at the Mountain Running World Championships in Canfranc, in the Spanish Pyrenees 🇪🇸, he sets off on a brutally steep 6.4 km climb, swallowing nearly 990 mD+. He leads at a blistering pace, dethrones the two-time Kenyan champion Patrick Kipngeno, and crosses the line in 37'50", smashing the course record along the way ⛰️. Just a few months after the cast came off, he leaves Worlds with the uphill title and proof that the mountain has found its boss again.

A résumé that keeps climbing 🚀

The 2025 season closes in style when, on October 18, he erased an eight-year-old mark on the Fully vertical kilometer in 27'21" 🔥. In winter, the same man reigns on skis with six world gold medals in ski mountaineering, including a vertical treble claimed in 2021, 2023, and 2025. On the trails, he also holds the best ITRA index ever recorded, a 970 posted at Neirivue-Moléson in 2023 ⏱️. The 2026 season then confirms that the fracture was only a parenthesis in his trajectory. On June 21, he obliterated his own record at Neirivue-Moléson in 55'31"6, before reclaiming what was his a week later, on June 28, at the Marathon du Mont-Blanc, which he won over the 42 km in 3h33'14", more than two minutes ahead of his runner-up. October brings a surprise on asphalt. On October 4, 2026, Bonnet lines up at Morat–Fribourg, 17.17 km of road running laid out “in the footsteps of the messenger” from the Battle of Morat of 1476. The climber turns into a speedster and clocks 52'00"4, the best Swiss time ever achieved in the race, beaten by only 2"9 by the Kenyan Brian Kipchumba, one stride away from the lime-tree branch 🥈 .

All that remains is a horizon line that pulls him upward: ultra-trail!