Climbing, the sport of the more adventurous

There are sports for everyone. Personally, whenever I read or hear mountaineering achievements, it gives me goose bumps, because it is closer to a climbing wall and you stick me down. But without doubt, is one of adventure sports more interesting.

However, although it is a sport practiced in my life, I have always envied people like Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the first two people who managed to reach the summit officially on 29 May 1953, but may 29 years earlier, two climbers, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine in 1924, but perished in the attempt and we will never know for sure if it got to the top. Their bodies were found in cases of study sites in 1999. Since then, the summit Everest, formerly XV (until 1865), there have been many adventurers who have reached the top.

The first wife did in 1975. Junko Tabei was a Japanese climber, and three years later he achieved the first ascent without oxygen. Referring to our country, the first achievement came from the hand of Martin Zabaleta in 1980, while the first Spanish woman was in 1996 (Araceli Segarra), getting rid of that fateful day in which 15 people were killed, the worst year ever.

And in 2008, the Olympic flame reached the 8,848 meters of the Himalayan giant.

A year after the first ascent of Everest did the first ascent of K2, with the heroes and Achille Compagnoni Lino Lacedelli and only three mountaineers have managed to replicate the success of reaching this incredible and dangerous peak.

But surely the best proof that one is a hero is to have on your resume the climb at 14 eight-thousands, the fourteen highest mountains in the world, which are: Everest, K2, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu , Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Annapurna, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak, Gasherbrum II and Sish Pangma, all in Asian territory. A curiosity is shared by all the peaks were reached after Everest, except for one: The Annapurna.

14 people have managed to reach the summit of the 14 eight-thousands, including two Spanish, Juanito Oiarzabal, who is also the mountaineer has climbed more than eight thousand in history, with 22 ascents, and Alberto Iñurrategi, he did with his brother, although that died before completing the 14.