Metropolis Jesús Calleja, the 'friend' who never hides anything: "They always tell me 'you're just like on TV'. It would be great if it wasn't!"
The life of the presenter of 'Volando voy' and adventurer Jesús Calleja is, from what we have seen on the screen, the example of what it means to
enjoy nature and freedom
.
However, as we have been able to learn from an interview he has given to the magazine
Lecturas
, his life on the edge -whether on foot, in an SUV, plane or helicopter-
was not easy when he was young
.
The flight license has cost him, in addition to a lot of money,
sweat and an extraordinary effort to finance
it .
The Leonese has assured that he did not want his family to have to assume payments of such magnitude.
"I paid for everything myself.
I have worked hard in what you cannot imagine and I have even mortgaged myself up to my eyebrows
to be able to pay for my flight license studies," he sums up.
And the fact is that, as she assured our colleague Esther Mucientes for 'Metrópoli', Calleja never lets up.
"What I propose I do"
.
He has no limits because he doesn't put them on.
The pilot license you have allows you to operate all kinds of devices: balloon, ultralight, parachute or helicopter.
That is,
anything that can go through the air
.
Lecturas
contributes that "his passion for climbing began on the Matallana train in which he traveled at the age of 13 to be able to enjoy the mountains of León.
He tried his first walls in Peña Ubiña".
At the age of 21, when he had the necessary resources, he made his first visit to the Himalayas and
worked for 16 years as a guide
on expeditions there and in the Alps.
At 37, he decided to turn his life around, abandoning everything for the mountains and,
in 2003, he tried to drill his first eight-thousander
, although he was unsuccessful due to bad weather.
The following year he was able to complete the 8,201 meters of Cho Oyu (Himalayas).
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