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  • JAVIER SÁNCHEZ

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Updated on Friday, 23April2021-01: 56

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When

Carlos Soria

traveled to Dhaulagiri for the first time he was still working as an upholsterer, he was not yet a grandfather and had not yet ascended any mountain of more than 8,000 meters of altitude.

It was 1988 "and everything was very different."

Bad weather denied him the ascent, but he fell in love with that top of the Himalayas.

I would return in 2001;

in 2006, when his partner

Pepe Garcés died

in a serious fall;

in 2011;

in 2012;

in 2016, in 2017 twice, in spring and in autumn;

in 2018 and in 2019.

In the same

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