The North Face Presents: TALA — Fernanda Maciel’s Pyrenees Ru

There’s a rare honesty that comes when you strip a journey to its bare essentials: one runner, one trail, and nothing but what you can carry. This is the story told in TALA, the new film from The North Face, as elite ultrarunner Fernanda Maciel takes on the legendary GR11 trail, crossing the spine of the Pyrenees, from the Atlantic shores of Faro de Cabo Higuer to the Mediterranean cliffs of Cap de Creus.

Running 800 kilometres in twelve days and twelve hours, Fernanda carried everything she needed to survive, moving entirely self-supported across jagged ridges, quiet forests, and isolated passes. Without crew, comfort, or contact, solitude became her constant companion — and the mountain, her mirror.

“This is the most difficult project that I’ve done in my life. The most difficult thing was to be alone. I was scared to die there. But it was my dream to be there and you have so much power when you have a dream and you can push yourself to make it,” Fernanda shares.

TALA is more than a story of endurance. It’s a meditation on presence, resilience, and our profound connection to wild places. Shot against the raw beauty of the Pyrenees, the film captures both the relentless physical demand of the trail and the quiet moments of introspection that only solitude can bring.