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may 02 2013 Century of Mountaineering (X): Terray, climber who dreamed him to be pastor

For: Sebastián Álvaro (text and photos)

Era, perhaps, the best representative of that great generation of French climbers. He had been part of the expedition to Annapurna, where he played a key role in both the triumph and the subsequent dramatic retreat.

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April 18 2013 Century of Mountaineering (IX): Bonatti, the mountains Achilles

For: Sebastián Álvaro (text and photos)

His attitude to life, his honesty and uprightness before infamy and persecution they underwent Italian mountaineer have made one of the essential ethical mountaineering references of all time.

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April 04 2013 Century of Mountaineering (VIII): the conquest of the giants

For: Sebastián Álvaro (text and photos)

Cordillera del Himalaya (foto Ricardo Coarasa)

The history of the conquest of the great mountains of the world would suffer a dramatic turnaround. Today we are able to say that those years involved a golden age in the conquest of the highest mountains on Earth.

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sea 21 2013 Century of Mountaineering (VII): Shipton, the iconoclast who stole the glory

For: Sebastián Álvaro (text and photos)

It is one of the times that prelude, sin only porteadores, very light material and greenfield. Perhaps because of this, or also for being an iconoclast with a fine sense of humor and hurtful- is so late would be replaced by Colonel John Hunt as head of the British expedition in 1953 achieved up to Everest.

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sea 08 2013 Century of Mountaineering (WE): "Get up or die"
For: Sebastián Álvaro (Photo S. Alvaro and E. M. Piso)

"By then it was almost normal for someone to fall Sundays. Monday was the rescue and Thursday, burial. And then we used to be for the next weekend to do some route", recordaba Anderl Heckmair, the winner of the Eiger North.

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sea 01 2013 Century of Mountaineering (In): Mallory, the great enigma
For: Sebastián Álvaro (text and photos)

Day 8 June, magnificent weather, left the last camp, located 8.168 meters, to the summit. The two were last seen at about one o'clock above the second step "forward resolutely" to the top. Since then, the mystery enveloped the two climbers.

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feb 20 2013 Century of Mountaineering (IV): Shackleton's dream
For: Sebastián Álvaro (text and photos)

Isla de balleneros cercana a la Antártida

While millions of people lost their lives in the trenches of the battlefields of Europe, Shackleton and his men were to carry out one of the most unusual and extraordinary expeditions of all time.

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