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The high-flying young unionenses longer a topic when it comes to Juan Carlos Ortiz, the Mountain Club Roller Masters Union, one of the few Spanish climbers, and certainly the first in the region, which makes a serious attempt Laila Peak climb, a summit of 6,096 meters in the rugged Himalayas.
Ortiz, 33, traveled to Pakistan in late August next to Madrid's Ramon Portilla, active contributor to the TVE program "The Edge of the Impossible" and one of the most charismatic mountain climbers of our geography, to become the first Spanish set foot on this mountain climbing up the north face, which have made less than ten people around the world.
The difficulty of this journey not only lay in the severe inclement weather in the region, with extreme cold and snowstorms, but also in the fact that Laila Peak is located in the glacier Ghondogoro, and start the north side of 1,500 almost vertical feet of climbing on rock and ice.
After a difficult landing to the area, and Portilla Ortiz traveled for three days with a guide, a cook and 18 porters to carry equipment and supplies to base camp, at which time it started pouring rain would not stop in eight days row.
"He was never seen, the Great Flood," explains unionense, even alarmed.
"It was raining more than a week when it is normal snow in the area, although the heat of the monsoon rain left us over 5,000 meters high, which is not only difficult to climb but caused landslides every day," he adds.
After eight days of waiting, attacked the mountain but found that the north side was unable to because regular ice cascades were not formed, was all granite.
This coupled with the inordinate amount of time they had expected because of the weather, the climbers had to give up the north side this year and try to at least reach the summit the southwest face.
Ortiz explains, "in three attempts we did not we could, then met with the first route in the second we were cut to 5,300 meters, and the third left us just 400 meters from the top, though as nearly night, we did not want to take risks and leave. "
Without doubt, Juan Carlos Ortiz, currently engaged in the development of a climbing guide on the coast of Murcia, attack Laila Peak again next year with teammate Ramon Portilla.
"I hope so," he admits, "because there's only a matter of desire, but also on budget, as to dive into an expedition of this nature requires a minimum of 3,500 euros per person and the support of sponsors."
III REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE FOR MOUNTAIN
Moreover, the Mountain Club Roller Masters Union organizes this Sunday, October 24, the III Championship Races Mountain Region of Murcia, a test that has exceeded all expectations by having 200 participants and had to leave out many applications.
The Trail Masters III Roller "Union City", considered the past year as the toughest test of the entire region in this mode, has an approximate distance of 26 kilometers and an accumulated slope near the 2,700-meter runs along the Sierra Minera unionense and Calblanque Regional Park, Ash and Peña del Águila.
So, after departure, to be held at 9.00 am from the station FEVE of La Union (after the Old Public Market), the participants will face a path consisting of 10.5 km of trails, 2 km from wadi , 1.6 km through Mount, 0.7 km from Roman Road, 0.8 miles of canyon, 3.8 km of track, 6.2 km of tracks are not passable by vehicles, and 0 , 4 km from asphalt.
In addition to 70 people responsible for organizing and five aid stations will be made on the same test a 'Regional Championship Clubs', which will provide even more if possible, of great interest to fans of the sport.
Source: Agencias
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