• Report Carlos Soria's preparation to climb the Dhaulagiri at the age of 82: hyperbaric chamber and a prosthesis

With the permission of the Government of Nepal in hand,

Carlos Soria

waited several weeks. The Dhaulagiri, the mountain that had been denied him on up to 10 times, called him again, an exciting challenge at 82 years old, the return to the heights after a season of hiatus, but before flying the mountaineer needed something: the coronavirus vaccine. As he promised his wife, without the second dose he would not travel. And he fulfilled.

On March 29, already immunized, he went to Kathmandu to prepare an acclimatization march through the Khumbu valley and in mid-April he reached the Dhaulagiri base camp. Everything was ready. They had been assured that there will only be about twenty people there, including foreign mountaineers and Sherpas, and the weather forecast indicated that there would be options to attack the summit, but when they arrived the situation was very different. Several expeditions that came from Annapurna had greatly thickened the base camp and it was snowing, snowing, snowing, it did not stop snowing.

"The mountain is not there to climb and now the most important thing is not to catch coronavirus. A few days ago cases began to appear and the virus has been spreading tremendously. From here about 20 people have already evacuated by helicopter and the country , Nepal, is absolutely confined. You cannot fly. I am vaccinated, but I fear for the Indian strain and for my two companions [

Sito Carcavilla

and

Luis Miguel Soriano

], who have not received the vaccine, "explains Soria, whose help has been essential in base camp.

The Spanish expedition carried several PCR tests, which served to detect the positives, and recently requested more tests from Kathmandu to try to control the outbreak. As they arrive, they avoid contacts and look at the mountain over and over again. A group made up of

Carla Pérez

,

Esteban Mena

and

Tommy Joyce

sought the summit in recent days, but had to withdraw due to poor conditions, due to the exaggerated danger of the journey. The possibility that Soria reaches its thirteenth 'eight thousand' is increasingly remote.

"But we have not thrown in the towel. The mountain is very dangerous, there are many avalanches due to the accumulated snow, but we are still hopeful. My team and I like to do things well done and that is what we are trying in this tremendous situation ", ends the 82-year-old mountaineer in a situation that he did not expect.

Years ago, in the Dhaulagiri he experienced accidents, misfortunes and even a mistake that led him to stay a few meters from the top, but he had never imagined facing a pandemic in the heights.

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