[Trending News] Carlos Soria: “The next thing will be Manaslu, we want to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Spanish expedition”

Carlos Soria is an example of overcoming that shows us every day that age is just a number, this Wednesday at 86 years old reached the top of Aconcagua, the ceiling of America, with an altitude of 6961 meters. Carlos teaches us that in life there are no excuses to do what you like despite all the stones on the way.

He has a prosthesis in the left knee, two years ago he broke up his right leg in the Himalayas, he has osteoarthritis, and despite this, he continues to enjoy his passion: “They attack me everywhere but I defend myself as I can. I have always presumed that I have never had a freezing despite climbing for 70 years of 8000 meters. ”

“When the leg happened to me in the Himalayas, the first thing was to leave alive from there because it was very difficult, I could have bleeding. It has been a miracle that is alive here,” he says. From 4300 meters of altitude he talks to us and tells us that he feels “a happy person of what I do and a privileged for being at my age here.”

Soria has a very special challenge ahead since it will try to upload the Manaslu: “We want As I was at this altitude and also to get a sponsor because this has cost us our money.