The snow was relentless in Bormio, coloring the slope a cloudy white, a fitting stage for the first ski mountaineering races in the history of the Olympic Games.

If you’re like us, you probably only learned what Ski Mountaineering is because you saw it on the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics roster and looked it up.

With snow falling, Fatton navigated the uphill-then-downhill course lined with a diamond-shaped pattern and stairs in a lung-searing time of 2 minutes, 59.77 seconds.