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.
Alvaro Sebastian travel to the past
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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.
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 (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 (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.
