Manasul 1975: 50 years of first Spanish Ocomil | Sports

Spain landed on the moon 50 years ago. On April 26, 1975, Gelishian Geronimo Lopez and Madrid’s Gerardo Blazquage El Manasul (8,163 m after half a century Himalaya in Attraction Park Instead of adventure land, two climbers had an indelible memory in those days. And both are restored in the country, then the deed to enter the Great Mountain range with any information, some fear of the unknown. “As we went into space,” Jerome captured.

In that Spain, Franco exhausted, the great mountains of the planet belonged to another world. When a group of 12 mountaineers left for Okomil on the first Spanish trip, Manas himself in 1973 had seized the Annapurna of the first Okomil, Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachelin; Edmond Hillary and Tenzing Norge to Everest’s climb of 20; Nine from the end of the 14 legends, Shisha Pangma; And and Reinhold Mesner He added two climbers without artificial oxygen on his way to Olympus.

After the destruction of the Second World War, Okomilism is a profession between countries for the top flag campaign. Every country falls in love with destination. England showed up to Everest, Nanga Parbat looked at the background of Germans and Austrians, and the Italian K2. France defeated everyone in Annapurna. And Spain? She is engaged in a special fight. The Catalons Josep Manual, Jordi Pons and Emily Civice in 1974 broke the 8,000 -meter barrier in 1974 by the crown of East Annapurna (8,026 m) in 1974, which is not the main top (8,091 m); Madrid trips opened the road a year earlier, when they reached 6,300 million in the minds and made history in 1975; Bosques will sign up for Everest (Martin Jabaleta, 1980).

“73 is a very pioneering attempt, because it is very laborious to seek Spain’s first trip and information. We have not been able to go at the top of the Avalanches and bad weather, and we have returned in 75. It is very different from today,” said Gereno Lopez. “We don’t know anything and now there are no agencies in Catmandu. We both invited a mountaineer’s meeting to give a meeting in Madrid and submitted to the third degree for two days. 50 years ago, he said.

Lopez left the youngest of the group, 23 years at Madrid’s Complaints University -a geological student. Jaime Garcia Arts Head to the Adventurers: Louis Bernardo Durand, Salvador Rivas, Miguel Kaunel Galego, Louis Mendez, Mariano Arazola, Miguel Lopez, Alphonso Arias, Gerardo Blazqua Carlos Psoria (Record Man at the age of 86 today) They finished the family. “We were broken with normal. At that time people were only trained when people went up, but we did mountain skiing and background crossings. We were involved in the first marathon in Madrid … We were in the country house at six in the morning, we ran, we ran, we went to our studies or job. 73 a baptism. If we don’t go up in 75 we will never be able to return. We can’t make more money, ”says Gerardo Blazquage, the other hero of that climb.

Salvador Riwas and Miguel Lopez signed the first attack on the summit, but the fatigue defeated them in the last stretch from Camp V to 7,500 meters. Carlos Psoria also waived after preparing those decisive meters with fixed ropes. This is the possibility of Jerome and Gerardo. Sherpa Sona Volong was accompanied by them, fearing with a dangerous place of the last tents, and the first night was tied to them. “We don’t have time indication. The next night we left the store at three o’clock in the morning. The sky was full of shining stars with its power. It was time.” And Jeronimo finished the story: “We saw a dark lump in the ice on the way to the summit. It was one of the Mesner’s companions of the previous trip. He was embarrassed, with hood putt. We did not touch it. We did not touch it. Sherpa did not take a picture.

They have only seen eight hours since they left the store, feeding the artificial oxygen of heavy respiratory equipment. And finally, the peak. Jerome explained that “I was relieved to not worry about climbing and getting worse;” “On the contrary of what people think, there is no scrap of happiness on the top. We know that it is not over. Happiness is seeing our classmates again. We are a team.” “We have been up to half an hour. We ate naugat and drink tea,” recalled Gerardo.

The news of Feet took 10 days for Spain to arrive. “Then this is not the audience, which is not that it is almost uncomfortable. We have used a runnermill, a young and fast carrier, he took our letters to the cutmandu and collected what had reached a mailbox. Here he had a moderate effect, but it was special to me.” Gelishian mountaineur continued to visit Los Kumumbras: In 1978 he was involved in the first Spanish growing up In the nose, Yosmite captain. The greatest polar chief, the global specificity. The mountain lives in it and nowadays, at the age of 73, Manasu returned to the Himalayan to remember the half -century manasu for two miles, and to the peaks of Larkya and Soula. I am going to follow him on that trip Carlos Superage, the precursor of the deceased base jump While recording the film about his life a few days ago.

Gerardo Blazzwage is 80 years old and live in a town in Catalonia. The mountains are away from their legs but not from their heart. The 1975 deed was described in the chapter of the Book of Spanish Himalesmo, a milestone tour of the mountain that landed on the moon 50 years ago.