Watch the Tenth Red Bull X-Alps Live with Cesium

The Red Bull X-Alps 2021 race starts this week, and you can watch it from anywhere in the world with a live tracking app built on CesiumJS.

The World’s Toughest Adventure Race is an incredibly intense endurance race through the Alps. When they can, athletes paraglide; otherwise they are running or climbing a route that takes them through many of Europe’s highest mountains.  

Given the terrain, there’s not a lot of roadside fans cheering on the athletes. Instead, the best way to follow the action is with the Live Tracking built by zooom productions with CesiumJS. In fact, because the race has always supported remote fans, it wasn’t disrupted by the pandemic like so many other events have been.

Hannes Maier, Head of Digital at zooom productions, explained why they selected Cesium:

With the app, fans can follow the race online, including seeing athletes’ current GPS position together with detailed terrain models, as well as statistics about athletes’ speed and altitude. The custom-built app uses Esri's World Imagery, which can be served in Cesium through the interoperability of the Cesium and Esri platforms.

The race begins June 20 and will run for nearly two weeks. The Prologue to the race, a 30 km single day race that you can also view with the live tracker, begins June 17. 

To visualize your own GPS tracks or other data in Cesium, check out our CesiumJS Quickstart tutorial.