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The Mountain Club 'Roller Masters' today unveiled the third week of Mountain' City of Union, an initiative to be held in the town unionense 5 to 8 May and seeks to promote contact with nature through audiovisual conferencing and alternative leisure to sporting.
The third edition of this project, included in the "Spring Arts IV 'of La Union, was presented by the Mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, and the local sportsman and climber Juan Carlos Ortiz, who has called mass participation, particularly among young people, which he described as "perhaps the sector most in need of healthy alternatives and promoting sports in their leisure time."
"The high level of sedentary living modern society makes us think that the third week of Mountain 'Union City' can be a turning point in education that will allow, wherever possible, to bring the activities in the natural environment to all the municipality's citizens, "said Ortiz in the premises of the City unionense.
Thus, began presenting the conference to be held in the Consistory Hall from 20.00, as of May 5, entitled "Karakorum Expedition 2010", where Ortiz himself speak of Laila Peak, a summit of 6,096 meters of altitude in the rugged Himalayas he tried to climb last year along with Ramon Portilla, TVE program associate at the Edge of the Impossible. "
The conference Friday, May 6, entitled "Paragliding, paramotor: Another way to experience the mountain" This Ramón López, who since the late 90s is responsible for the national team as team leader paramotor, a athlete who holds the record keeping high paragliders at the base camp of Nanga Parbat (Pakistan) to 4,100 meters.
Finally, on Saturday, May 7, will present the conference "Great wall of Greenland", an audiovisual presentation starring Miguel Angel García Gallego, one of the leading specialists in climbing difficulty and end the artificial addition of an expert diver, who was a pioneer in the winter ascent of the west face of the legendary Naranjo de Bulnes, Asturias.
Parallel to the audiovisual conference, the third week of Mountain 'Union City' will offer those interested a number of leisure and free time that sought to promote the values ​​of respect for the natural environment and interest in sports.
So, next Saturday, May 7 from 9:00 to 13:30 pm, Sports Hall The Union will host a "Workshop on Mountain Race ', an activity that will include a talk on nutrition aimed at runners and mountain Trail back output.
Interested parties may pre-register at the address rollermasters@hotmail.com.
Also, that Saturday, starting at 9.00 pm, there will be an exit path from the Plaza Joaquín Costa de La Union, an activity of about 12 km and little difficulty will pass through the Sierra Minera and will last about 3 or 4 hours.
For its part, Sunday, at 9.00 pm, the Plaza Joaquín Costa de La Union will become a starting point for a new activity, this time a Mountain Bike Quedada consisting of a tour between 30 and 40 kilometers will end up in the town unionense.
As pointed out by the president of the Roller Masters Mountain Club of La Union, Francisco Soler, the activities taking place these days "will serve to promote the sport of mountain and adventure through alternative closer to nature and the presence of athletes high level ", with also" want to prove that mountain sports are not reserved to a few, but it is accessible to all sporting options, people of every age and condition. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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