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KÍLIAN IS POSSESSED

MARCH 2024

Welcome to a very special edition of POSSESSED. This issue is dedicated to the one and only elite athlete, Mr Kílian Jornet. If you’re just coming out of a twenty-year coma, Kílian Jornet is the greatest trail runner and all-around mountain athlete in recorded history. There might be someone greater in prehistory, but we seriously doubt it, and until you finish building that time machine, it’s Kílian. Kílian holds more speed records than there are species of owl, and he’s won more races—often multiple times in a row—than you or I have had pizza pockets. Of course, I’m exaggerating (everyone knows how many pizza pockets you’ve eaten), but my point is this: Kílian is a legit phenomenon, a living legend, and right now he’s deeply embarrassed by this gushy introduction, but he’s the star of our 51st issue of POSSESSED, and that’s something to gush about.
While researching this special Kílian Jornet issue, I discovered that Kílian grew up high in the Pyrenees and began climbing and skiing at a very young age. I also discovered that his Wikipedia page is nearly eleven feet tall. That is, if you were to copy its contents and paste them into a word processing document (font size 12, line spacing 1.5) and then print the document, those pages would, end-to-end, stretch to roughly 10 feet and 71 inches. To put that in perspective, Ozzy Osbourne’s Wiki page is only 9 feet and 32 inches—and he’s Ozzy, for godsakes. So yeah, Kílian even outranks The Godfather of Heavy Metal. In all seriousness, though, Kílian’s athletic achievements are unparalleled. Time and again, he’s smashed the ceiling on the limits of human endurance, and we couldn’t be prouder or more stoked to devote this issue of POSSESSED to him.

We hope you enjoy reading KÍLIAN IS POSSESSED as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

x Jason