The world at the end of the world
These are the places where I felt an intense and exhilarating sense of freedom. I never wanted to conquer, they who have conquered me.
Sebastián Álvaro, journalist, He started working as a TVE coach and from 1981 He dedicated himself to creating and directing a new format of adventure documentaries with the name of "The edge of the impossible" that would be consolidated as one of the most prestigious television programs of all time. During 30 years he has been the biggest head of adventure expeditions in Spain, being the leader and the alma mater of a team formed by technicians, screenwriters and specialists, able to undertake and film the riskiest adventures, From the ascent of the fourte, South Patagonian Ice, The Andes mountain range, or that of the deserts of the Taklamakán and the great sea of ??sand. Has done, also, The exploration of places as inhospitable as the Yarlung Tsangpo canyon, Antarctica, Tierra de Fuego, Karakorum and Georgias del Sur.
Under its direction the “to the edge of the impossible” brand became a reference of the modern adventure and of the documentary and audiovisual genre in Spain and worldwide, unique in its kind, having transformed these activities into Spain into a sports phenomenon, cultural and social. "At the edge ..." he laid the ideological basis of modern adventure and helped extend them in Spain, (heiress of the values ??of illustration and science), joining exploration, Knowledge and action. At the same time, it is a reflection on the inner world of man located at the limit of his possibilities., and its relationship with nature in its wildest aspect, hard and wild, committing to the conservation of the environment and the preservation of the cultural diversity of the last lost corners of the Earth. In this sense “Al Filo…” has been the best symbol of public television, by sharing with its viewers the best sporting values, What is teamwork like?, the ability to overcome and the effort to achieve challenges considered impossible.
The documentaries of "The edge of the impossible" have been awarded at the most important film and television festivals in the world. Among them are two medals at the New York International Festival, and two gold medals at the Hamburg Festival, BANFF Festivals Awards, Calcuta and Torelló, two waves awards and nine ATV awards, and the Allegria Award of the Association of Mountain and Adventure Festivals.
As a communication professional he was a pioneer in the broadcast of large expeditions on live television and online. Currently continues to drive and directing high -level adventure expeditions, while coordinating several humanitarian aid projects in high mountain places aimed at changing the living conditions of locals in Ecuador, Nepal and Pakistan.
Since the spring of 1981, date of his first expedition to the Himalayas, until the end of 2010, has devised, organized and directed more than 200 expeditions, in which more than 1500 experts, making more than three hundred documentaries at the same time; is, therefore, one of the Spaniards who has made the most trips and explorations of all time, having traveled to six continents and the most unknown places, rural people, inaccessible and wild of the Earth. He has narrated all of these experiences and made them known through documentaries., fotografías, books, conferences and articles. For his work he has been awarded three medals for military merit and the National Sports Award.. He is the author of more than fifteen books, lecturer and columnist. In the last two years alone he has taught more than 100 conferences in Spain, China, USA and Latin America, various specialized courses at universities and more than 150 articles and opinion columns. He regularly collaborates with some of the most prestigious media outlets in Spain., like the country, the world, AS, The Weekly, the SER and RNE.
22 articles
Laila Peak (II): learn to suffer
I guess it's normal that, on these occasions, Even before leaving home, the fear assails me as to whether I will return to see everyone I love again., there are many, and asked me the meaning of what we do.
Laila Peak (IV): the icing on a special love
We came being better than before leaving. Enriched, with the head aerated by the Karakorum wind and the soul full of emotions and feelings that we will hardly forget. I no longer aspire to more. But not unless.
Laila Peak (III): the happiness of impossible goals
We probably don't have a 10% possibilities of reaching that tiny summit that rises above six thousand meters in the middle of winter, lashed by winds that shake you and with temperatures incompatible with life. But we want to try.
Laila Peak (In): Man's Search for Meaning
You fall in love with mountains like this the same way you fall in love with a woman, for its beauty, for its powerful attraction that only causes mystery, for its apparent inaccessibility, because you close your eyes and you only think about them ...
South Georgia: the footsteps of Shackleton (III)
A Spanish ship, the Lion, was the first to sight, in 1753, South Georgia, the crews christened San Pedro, an island that James Cook described as a "wild and terrible" to "not worth
South Georgia: the footsteps of Shackleton (II)
They were caught in the worst place in the world, more than 15.000 miles from home, no means to communicate and knowing that no one would come to rescue them
South Georgia: the footsteps of Shackleton (In)
Our expedition, sponsored by Halconviajes.com, try to repeat the incredible adventure of one of the greatest polar explorers nearly a hundred years . It will be our special tribute to Shackleton.
Century of Mountaineering (XI): a walk for a lady
The last phase, which the British called as a walk for a lady, perhaps that is happening right now, leading commercial expeditions with customers and the normal route of Everest customers crowded into long lines. As happens many summers in the Mont Blanc.
Century of Mountaineering (X): Terray, climber who dreamed him to be pastor
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.
Century of Mountaineering (IX): Bonatti, the mountains Achilles
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.
Century of Mountaineering (VIII): the conquest of the giants
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.
Century of Mountaineering (VII): Shipton, the iconoclast who stole the glory
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.
Century of Mountaineering (WE): "Get up or die"
"Por aquel entonces era casi normal que los domingos alguien se cayera. Monday was the rescue and Thursday, burial. Y después solíamos quedar para el fin de semana siguiente para hacer alguna ruta", recordaba Anderl Heckmair, the winner of the Eiger North.
Century of Mountaineering (In): Mallory, the great enigma
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.
Century of Mountaineering (IV): Shackleton's dream
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.
Century of Mountaineering (III): Mummery, the revolutionary myopic
Considered the father of modern mountaineering, This Englishman was the best climber of his time despite his limitations, it was something ungainly and rather myopic. He disappeared on Nanga Parbat in 1895, but his legacy endures.
Century of Mountaineering (II): the conquest of the Matterhorn
In the mid-nineteenth century almost all the highest peaks of the Alps had been promoted with one exception: Cervino, a mountain that becomes the symbol of inaccessibility.
Century of Mountaineering (In): sense of the mountain
Taking advantage of this year marks the centenary of the Royal Society Sports Peñalara, I was asked to try to summarize the highlights of those hundred years elapsed until today mountaineering.
Hushe Project: Leopard territory
For three years, on business-NGO Foundation Sarabastall of Caspe, we are trying to improve the lives of the people of this remote village of Karakorum, Pakistan, for the simple reason of giving something of how much we owe.
The master of the mountains
Eduardo Martinez de Pison is a magic carpet that transports you to the unexplored recesses of the countryside, of feelings and emotions. And it does so with intelligence, curiosity and science, almost evenly. So you abandon yourself to your care, Embark roll up to her and this wonderful literary adventure.
Walter Bonatti, mountaineering legend
A few months ago, in September, fallecía a Roma, with 81 years, Walter Bonatti, the greatest climber of his generation and most ethical reference in the world of mountain. Of it has been said that was "pure climber who ever lived"
