Jenny Tough

Jenny Tough (born ) and the Atlas Mountain Race in 2020. In addition to her bikepacking achievements, Tough is an ultrarunning adventurer who has run solo and unsupported the length of a mountain range on every populated continent. The mountain ranges she has run include the Tien Shan, the Atlas Mountains, the Bolivian Andes, the Southern Alps, the Canadian Rockies, and the Transylvanian Alps. She described these runs in her 2023 book Solo.

In 2022, Tough edited the book Tough Women: Adventure Stories in which twelve women wrote about their adventurous activities, "from mountain climbing to wingsuit flying, from horse trekking to swimming the English Channel".

Tough is deputy editor, of adventure travel magazine Sidetracked.

Tough was born in Banff, Alberta, Canada, graduated from James Cook University, and, , lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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