The path
The path: from zero to 8,848 meters
A natural talent to move around in the mountains, the interest shared by other colleagues and her growing excitement took Edurne to look for peaks beyond the Basque Country and the Pyrenees. When she was 15, her cousin Asier (a future companion on several eight-thousanders) taught her to climb on rock. One year later she went up Mont Blanc. Then she climbed in the Andes before finally facing her first Himalayan challenge: Dhaulagiri, which she attempted (unsuccessfully) in 1998.
Her inflection point, however, came in 2001, when she was proposed as a member of an expedition to Mount Everest. It was a unique opportunity in her life: to climb a peak over eight thousand metres high is an experience which few mountaineers can afford, but to come face-to-face with the roof of the world is a dream come true.
Her inflection point, however, came in 2001, when she was proposed as a member of an expedition to Mount Everest. It was a unique opportunity in her life: to climb a peak over eight thousand metres high is an experience which few mountaineers can afford, but to come face-to-face with the roof of the world is a dream come true.
At that time, Edurne, at 28, was completely unknown in the mountaineering world. But when she got home, she had the peak in her pocket, and addiction to the Himalayas in her veins – she had to go back.
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Hola Edurne, enhorabuena... Si enhorabuena.
La altura en la montaña la dan los metros y un referente es el Everest, pero la grandeza de las pers...
La altura en la montaña la dan los metros y un referente es el Everest, pero la grandeza de las pers...
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