Gian Marchet SCHICKTANZ

About the runner

A small village, about 40 inhabitants, no train station, but a very small football pitch, high up in the Swiss Engadine mountains. That's how I would describe the place where I grew up as country boy. The place which formed my personality and most important the defining desire to live an active, excessive lifestyle. My childhood was mostly spent playing football, switching to hockey later on and eventually sticking with freestyle skiing for several years. Since then, I've gone through many changes, being a sponsored freestyle skier, finding interest in art, visiting art school, continuing to work as a professional photographer, traveling overseas for a year and weirdly as life is, ending up where I am today. I am an elite mountain runner.