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Photo service 2025
The photo service allows every runner to purchase professional photos of their participation in the Aletsch Half-Marathon. The pictures will be taken by photographers along the route. To retrieve and download your photos from the photo service, simply enter your race bib. You can either buy the photos individually or buy a set of digital photos at a fixed price.
Donations for Blatten/Lötschental
The organizing committee of the Aletsch Half Marathon has decided to make an automatic donation of CHF 2 per runner to Blatten/Lötschental.
Receipt Swiss Runner Ticket (Kopie)
Thanks to the Swiss Runner Ticket, registered runners benefit from free second-class travel to and from Bettmeralp. The Swiss Runner codes will be sent to you personally by email in early June 2025.
More than 2500 registration
We are very pleased that over 2500 runners have already registered for the Aletsch Half Marathon 2025 (May 25)
Further registrations under the following link:
New gift voucher starting point
No Christmas present yet? No problem. From us you can now easily buy a gift voucher for a starting place in the Aletsch Half Marathon 2025.
Register using the normal online registration method and then you can purchase a starting place there in the form of a gift voucher.
Gift voucher at the following link:
International day winners at the 36th Aletsch Half Marathon
The 37th Aletsch Half Marathon took place in light drizzle, low temperatures and drifting fog. Around 2300 people took part in the run. The event provided countless exciting stories.
Click here for the 2024 ranking
On Sunday, 23 June 2024 the 37th Aletsch Half Marathon took place. Congratulations to all participants for this great achievement!
Get your diploma now!
We congratulate all runners who took part in the 37th Aletsch Half-Marathon. Each runner receives a diploma for his or her athletic performance.
UNESCO World Heritage Trophy
One price, four runs in 2024. You can experience both of the running classics Aletsch Half-Marathon and Jungfrau Marathon as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Trophy.
Real-world running experience from 2 July to 23 October 2022.
Your training for a successful running season. Experience the Aletsch Half Marathon 2022 as an individual and real challenge.
The 35th Aletsch Half Marathon is history
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the 35th Aletsch Half-Marathon. There were countless emotional moments over the weekend. We would like to thank the sponsors and helpers for their generous support before and during the event. We consider it a great pleasure and privilege to organise and put on future Aletsch Half Marathons together with you.
Honorary competitor: Didier Défago, Olympic downhill champion
The former skier Didier Défago is an honorary competitor at the 35th World Ski Championships. Aletsch Half-Marathon. His greatest success was winning the downhill gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. He is also the winner of the Lauberhorn downhill and the Streif in Kitzbühel. He currently works as a ski-run builder and is president of the Association of Valais Mountain Railways.
Cancellation of Aletsch Half-Marathon 2021
Dear Runners and Friends of the Aletsch Half-Marathon,
Real-world running experience from 3 July to 3 October 2021
Experience the Aletsch Half-Marathon 2021 as an individual challenge in the real world.
Absage / annullé /called off
The board and management have decided to cancel the 35th Aletsch Half-Marathon on 21 June and the Saturday races on 20 June 2020.
Become part of the Facebook group!
There is an official Facebook group for the Aletsch Half Marathon. You will be kept up to date and have a platform for the exchange among each other. The group is part of the Aletsch Arena Facebook page. The Aletsch Half Marathon Facebook page has been deactivated.
Free travel
SBB makes it possible: with the Swiss Runners Ticket, participants can travel for free from anywhere in Switzerland to the Aletsch Half-Marathon. This is how it works!
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