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Should cycling ban altitude training? How an obsession with peak performance is ruining racing

Spending sizeable chunks of the season at high altitude has become a staple part of professional cyclists' training regimes, especially if you're a Grand Tour contender. But is altitude training irreversibly harming both rider wellbeing and the quality of racing?

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'The first goal is to enjoy the Tour de France' – Chasing GC not the only ambition for Tom Pidcock on return to cycling's biggest race

Briton training at altitude in Sierra Nevada before returning to racing at Tour de Suisse

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68 days: Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe explain why Remco Evenepoel is not racing for over two months as part of Tour de France build-up

Belgian already doing six-to-seven hour training rides in 'almost millimetric' preparation for Tour de France

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Remco Evenepoel trains in football jersey to celebrate Arsenal's Premier League title

Belgian star has been a fan since childhood and shows his support from altitude training camp in Sierra Nevada

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'He's in Tour de France mode' - Tadej Pogačar at altitude training camp in Sierra Nevada

No recon of 2026 Vuelta a España crunch final mountain stage planned for Slovenian star

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'Start the countdown' – Remco Evenepoel ramps up Tour de France preparation with Sierra Nevada altitude training camp

Belgian won't race before July, preferring to build up with training camps and course recons

Cycling News

The ‘ghost lake’ returns: California’s largest lost water body resurfaces after 130 years

Tulare Lake has made a surprising comeback, once known as Pa'ashi by the Tachi Yokut tribe. This rare event shows how a long-gone terminal lake can reclaim its original basin. It used to be the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi until it was drained in the late 1800s…

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Winter Storm Watch is Issued as High Winds and Two Feet of Snow are Expected Across Several US States

A late-season winter storm is impacting the western US, bringing heavy snow, strong winds, and dangerous travel conditions. Weather alerts are in effect, with significant snowfall expected in mountainous regions.

International Business Times UK

Adam Yates to prepare for Giro d’Italia at altitude after O Gran Camino victory

UAE Emirates-XRG to send whole Giro d’Italia squad to Sierra Nevada

Cycling Weekly

Terrain in Spain: gravel biking in the mountains of Andalucía

A cycle tour of the Sierra Nevada backcountry proves a bumpy but beautiful ride through cinematic scenery

The Guardian - UK

Crews hope to resume recovery of 8 bodies from California avalanche after days of dangerous weather

Crews hope to resume efforts to recover the bodies of eight people killed in an avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada and search for a person missing but presumed dead on Friday

The Independent UK

Avalanche risks remain high in California after deaths of skiers

Forecasters predict more snow in Sierra Nevada mountains as climate crisis increases threat of dangerous conditions

The Guardian - US

Snow drought helped set the stage for deadly California avalanche, leading to unstable conditions

Experts say a weekslong “snow drought” in Norther California's Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday's deadly avalanche, after several feet of new snow fell on an earlier layer that had hardened

The Independent UK

Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and skier explains, with tips for surviving

A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and their guides near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada as an intense storm brought heavy snow to the region on Feb. 17, 2026. Six of the skiers were rescued, but eight others didn’t survive and another was missing. The region…

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Lake Tahoe avalanche: 8 skiers dead, one missing after massive slide near Castle Peak

Eight backcountry skiers have been confirmed dead, and one remains missing after a powerful avalanche swept through a guided expedition near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, authorities said Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

They survived conquistadors and settlers. Now the Arhuaco are facing an even greater threat

Colombia’s Sierra Nevada has become a strategic prize for drug traffickers and paramilitaries, leaving its Indigenous people threatened with ‘physical and cultural extinction’

The Conversation

Where the wild things thrive: Finding and protecting nature’s climate change safe havens

The idea began in California’s Sierra Nevada, a towering spine of rock and ice where rising temperatures and the decline of snowpack are transforming ecosystems, sometimes with catastrophic consequences for wildlife.

The Guardian - UK

‘You don’t have to hurtle down slopes or dance like crazy at après parties’: readers’ favourite winter mountain holidays in Europe

The Alps, Spain’s Sierra Nevada and the national parks of Sweden and Albania feature among our readers’ treasured winter mountain breaks

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‘This is pretty therapeutic’: a pottery retreat in Spain’s Alpujarras

In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Andalucía, our writer finds that processing and shaping clay helps him filter out negative thoughts

Euronews

Unprecedented glacier melting will leave US peaks ice-free for the first time, new study finds

The glacier melt in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains is unprecedented, a new study shows.

The Guardian - US

Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history

New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century

LiveScience

Yosemite's glaciers have survived 20,000 years — but we could be the first people to see Sierra Nevada ice-free

New research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North America.

The Independent UK

California Boy Scout troop rescues former Eagle Scout, 78, lost in Sierra Nevadas

Douglas Montgomery, 78, was stranded in the wilderness without food or supplies for more than a day

Cycling News

Mireia Benito overcomes tough uphill course and extreme heat to net third straight gold in Spanish National Time Trial Championships

AG Insurance-Soudal pro secures third Nationals TT title in high-altitude time trial in Sierra Nevada

The Conversation

Mountain chickadee chatter: Scientists are decoding the songbird’s complex calls

I approach a flock of mountain chickadees feasting on pine nuts. A cacophony of sounds, coming from the many different bird species that rely on the Sierra Nevada’s diverse pine cone crop, fill the crisp mountain air.

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