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This isn’t a goodbye, it’s a “see you later”. Everest hasn’t wanted this year to conquire its heart, but what I do appreciate clearly is that it has stolen my heart. I dream, every day, since we left our home on December 25 that we reach the 8848 meters that separate us from the sky,

In that moment of happiness in which I thought that the greatest experience of my life couldn’t be overcome, Reinhold Messner my greatest idol and inspiration, comes to the Base Camp, to support me in my challenge of trying to ascend Everest in winter and without bottled oxygen. “The god of the mountains” was the

We have renewed 60% of the previous equipment affected by the hard weather conditions of the last weeks. It has been a laborious work in which we have retrofitted the complicated Khumbu Icefall located in the route between the Base Camp and the First Altitude Camp. Besides, I show you our previous days in a

Yesterday, on the 25th, we went up by helicopter to the Base Camp. In one hour we went from being at 1000 meters, compared to 5,250 meters of the Base Camp. The truth was that I was afraid: I thought that I could be affected by altitude sickness, due to the change of being in

And then they say that dreams do not come true … Ha ha! A few days away in the direction of what is my second home, Nepal, Alex calls me on the phone and says “Enara, I have a surprise for you ..” This simple phrase was the beginning of what has been a great adventure.

They give us good part of meteo for the 14, we go for it. We left on the 10th, not too early, Norbu, Chhepal and me. No major problems than solving the icefall. We reach the 2C, 6.350 mt. In about 8 hours. Between Norbu and I we rode the 2C again; Chhepal arrives somewhat

We start from the base camp on Thursday, February 2, not very early as ascending to the C2 (6350 m), has become a mere process (although very dangerous). We enter into the waterfall of the Khumbu that makes waters on all sides; Dangerous sections increase. I thought it would be safer in winter, but every

If we really want to go up there, we have to act when life dies. It is then, when we must be the good team that we are and only then will we know if we are sufficiently prepared and if we will measure up, will we be able to overcome our fears? 7.30 in

After two days rest in the base camp, there are changes in the starting grid. Even assimilating what has been lived up there, it is too early to draw conclusions and still less to make decisions. There should be no rush; we have just started; we need to keep a cool head and try to

After 6 days away from home (CB), it is time to reflect. The accumulated fatigue and extreme situations have taken a toll on me and make my rest difficult. Therefore, at this time of the morning, I wanted to take everything I have inside and make you participate in what has been lived during these

From the C3 of Everest I send all my strength to Carlos Rubio great companion and friend who has had to be evacuated to a hospital in Kathmandu because of a lung inflammatory process. He is stable and I know he is fine, but from here we miss him a lot, since he has worked

We are working hard and today we will spend the night around 7000 m. Yesterday we reached the Second Field of Height to start equipping as much as possible until the end of the week. Do you want to know what it feels like to have to go through the complicated “Death Runner” again? Here

After four stages of work equipping The Khumbu icefall yesterday that the wind gave us a window of good conditions, we ascended and spent the night at 5870 meters, in a provisional field, but as it is not the best place, today we have climbed to 6050 meters to build the C1. At the moment,

We continue to work hard on the Khumbu icefall. At the moment, we have carried four stairs carrying more than 30 kg each. There are very dangerous sections and we have to be very careful. Enjoy these beautiful images that perfectly reflect the labyrinth of ice chaos. Enjoy it! Here you have a beautiful montage

We spent two days equipping the Khumbu Icefall – between Base Camp and Camp 1-. Honestly, it’s what I’m afraid of climbing Everest, I do not want us to get stuck and we’re equipping it for a month. We are working hard, we have to climb a lot of stairs. In short, we have to

The Base Camp (5,250 m). Our house for the next few weeks. It is a real luxury to be the only expedition in the CB; Since during the year, it is usually overcrowded. But, fortunately, in winter, we are the only inhabitants under the highest summit in the world.   January 5, first day at

Happy new year to you all, I send you all my strength from Everest, Nepal. I hope you have a year full of dreams and good times. Let’s leave behind all the problems and live this 2017 with energy and positivity. I wish you all the best in this new adventure. I will take you with

Here you have the summary of these last days: December 27: The Everest from the air Bouddhanath Temple, Kathmandu December 29: Kathmandu-Namche Bazaar (3.404 m)   December 30: Khunde, Khumbu (3.900 m) December 31: (During the day) (At night, at the last dinner of the year) We say goodbye to this 2016 with this great

The adventure has begun; we are already in Kathmandu. We had a hard time getting here, winter expeditions are very hard and require an excess effort, but this is our dream and we will give everything to take advantage of this opportunity that our sponsors have given us, without them this would not be possible,

It’s been three or four days since I chained ‘El Ruido y La Furia’ 7c+/8a in Araotz, Oñati, Gipuzkoa. One of the great achievements of my sport career being as it comes at a difficult time in my life: in the last few weeks I have been busier than ever, I have given a couple of

My new adventure it is undoubtedly the most extreme challenge of my career. Even the most ambitious challenge in the world of mountaineering. Human being has been conquering little by little every the most terminal points on earth: the poles, deserts, the 14 mountains of 8,000-meter-peak. One of the major challenges today in the world of adventure,

The 26th February of 2016 is already part of the alpinism history. At 15:37 (in Pakistan), Alex Txikon, Ali ‘Sadpara’ and Simone Moro reached the top of Nanga Parbat (8.126m). The ‘killer mountain’ was at last conquered in winter.     After 24 hours they were back in BC, together with Tamara Lunger, who was

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 25/02/2016 At 18:30 (in Pakistan) Alex Txikon has just contacted this BC for informing they’re already resting and hidrating inside their sleeping bags in C4 (7.200m). Optimum wind conditions are expected for 26th night and will remain throughout 27th, but waiting until then would suppose to spend one ‘extra’

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 15/02/2016 They couldn’t make it. A new meteo change, one of those we are so afraid of, brought clouds and strong wind that forced four climbers to descend from C1. Nanga reminds us this is winter. Tomorrow they’ll try again. It was about 2:00pm when yesterday they reached C1

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 05/02/2016 It seems that the short window will reach a few hours later. They are being fairly nice days here in Base Camp (some sunnier than others, so does the temperature), but every day we hear and observe frustrated that the wind blows very hard up there, aborting any

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 05/02/2016 Indeed, as Tamara Lunger published on her Facebook account some days ago, the team leaded by Simone Moro has joined Alex Txikon and Ali ‘Sadpara’ in the Kinshofer route. The two italians have decided to close their attempt in the Messner-Eisendle route due to its bad conditions –“the

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 29/01/2016 This morning Alex Txikon and Ali ‘Sadpara’ set off from Base Camp for opening the track one more time, because hard wind has moved snow these days, covering the way. They had on mind to reach no further than C1 (4.800m), because meteo conditions do not give chance

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 26/01/2016 Bleak weather today in this Diamir valley. However, shouldn’t accommodate too much in Base Camp, and that’s why Alex Txikon and Ali ‘Sadpara’ have spent the morning marking with bamboos the traverse that goes from Base Camp to the morraine (where large accumulations of snow are very usual)

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 25/01/2016 Twelve days of hard work in mountain, three nights in C1 (4.800m), other four nights on the small and unconfortable platform in C2 (6.100m) and more than 2.500 meters of rope (almos 200 kilos) carried up and fixed along the route, up to its C3 (6.700m). Twenty five

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 23/01/2016 The team leaded by Alex Txikon has achieved an important goal: They’ve equipped the route up to C3 (6.700m). They’ve rejected the idea of spending the night at that altitude, though. According to the last meteo forecasts, hard winds (160km/h) are coming in less than 24 hours, and

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 22/01/2016 Txikon, ‘Sadpara’ and Nardi have started a new rotation today morning. Let’s see what they can do over this new window. It’s been a long, hard but eficient day: The three climbers got up at 3:00am (11:00pm at home), had breakfast at 3:30am and at 4:00am set off

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 17/01/2016 At 8am we received in BC the first call from the two climbers: “The night’s been freezing, –30ºC, but we are ready to start”. Indeed, with binoculars we were able to notice how they left C2 and advanced along the first snow ridge. At 4pm they contacted again

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 13/01/2016 Brilliant work and qualitatively very important step made today by Txikon and ‘Sadpara’: have managed to equip the route up to the base of the rocky Kinshofer Wall (6.050m aprox.), and deposit there one tent, food and material. It was 7:30am when set off from C1 (4.800m) under

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 11th January, 2016 Line ready up to 5.700m, and 700 meters of rope deposited at this same altitude; one lower deposit with 1.000 meters of rope at 5.300m; and 600 meters more of rope in C1 (4.800m), plus some other material and food. That’s how it is going after

8th January, 2016.Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) After hours of doubts and discussion, the team leaded by Alex Txikon has finally decided to hold the initial plan and attempt Nanga Parbat from its normal route, Kinshofer route. From tomorrow on, four days of good weather are coming, and so they’ll work and climb for

Text: Igone Mariezkurrena (Nanga Parbat BC) 2nd January, 2016 Today was the first working day for Alex Txikon, Daniele Nardi and Ali ‘Sadpara’ in Nanga Parbat, and it’s been really satisfactory. Two days after reaching and establishing BC (4.200m), the three climbers have reached which is going to be their first altitude camp (C1, 4.850m)

After long days of journey, at last we could reach ‘The Cerro’ that we met in July for the first time. We are in Catamarca northern area, almost in the border to Chile. Believe me this is really the Paradise for those who love mountaineering, the view is completely wild, masive, and five of the

Tomorrow, 2nd December, I will present the inminent ‘Nanga Parbat Winter Expedition 2016’ for medias and, by the way, will announce I’ve just joined Trangoworld team with great enthusiasm and desire to work. Trangoworld brand will support me from now on: for this great winter challenge at Nanga Parbat I completelly trust Trangoworld’s TRX2 textil

Since my toes got frozen during that fatidic GI (8.080m) 2012 Winter Expedition, even putting on my climbing shoes’s become a real torture, and that’s distanced me from rock climbing for a long time. To long. That’s why having achieved ‘Sonata’ (7c) in Korea (Araotz) is for me a kind of culmination of my overcoming

Just a few lines to update you about my aim for this winter: want to try again in Nanga Parbat (8.126m) and improve the job done there last year. As well as Ali ‘Sadpara’ (Pakistan) and Daniele Nardi (Italy), both of them partners last year, Janusz Golab (Poland) and Ferran Latorre (Catalunya) will climb together

El equipo formado por Txus Lizarraga, Adrian Legarra, Ekaitz Maiz, Felix Criado, Daniele Nardi y Alex Txikon ha dado por finalizada la expedición ‘Thalay Sagar 2015’. Dado que no han hecho cumbre, tampoco dan por cumplido su objetivo, pero se muestran satisfechos con el trabajo realizado: una nueva vía en el Pilar Noroeste, a la

Despite progressing slower than expected, the team led by Alex Txikon has at last come to the base of the imposing 300-metre rock pillar that guards the northwestern edge of Thalay Sagar (6.904m). Up to this point, they have followed the route opened in this same pillar by the team led by the german Stephan

It was SUNDAY (23th AUGUST) when expedition members left the always busy and noisy New Delhi and started the long uncomfortable trip by road: 16 hours almost non-stop inside a minibus to complete the 400 kilometres that separated them from Uttarkhasi, the National Park entrance and inescapable police check point. On the banks of Bhagirathi

The goal of the expedition leadered by Alex Txikon is to climb Thalay Sagar’s north face in capsule style, carrying up every rope, material, food and clothes they’ll need for climbing and surviving while hanging on the wall for 10-12 days. Thalay Sagar (6.904m) is the second higgest peak (after Kedarnath, 6.940m) in the Western

We were definitelly looking forward to changing the scenary. Finally in “el cerro”. As we didn’t have too many days, we chose a plan that at first seemed to be simple and feasible: we thought of the double ascent to San Francisco (6.016m) and Incahuasi (6.638m). The firs peak is easy and very frequented by

After leaving Fiambala, crossing Saujil and Medanitos, we again go through the north-west argentinean desert, but this time on wheels, and that’s why we look for farther and higher dunes that shoul put it more difficult.  The feeling of driving a motorcycle in a place like this is certainly brutal, the weather is not good

I would like to share with you some pictures taken during a recent trip to Catamarca province in Argentina, specifically to the Fiambala region, a really wonderful place for all those who love mountains and wildest natural environment. Located in the northwest of the country, this province’s 102,000 square metres and limits the west with

My first left toe looks much better now! And I hope the frozen area to regenerate over the coming weeks. The improvement was thanks, first, to the surgery performed by Dr. Iñaki Ituarte, and thanks as well to the innovative treatment developed by Dr. Alberto Gorrochategui of the Ercilla Dermatology Clinic.

We continue along the east coast of South Africa and arrive in Plettenberg Bay, about six hours by road from the starting point (Cape Town). We’ve crossed several villages, some isolated farms and long stretches through the thick vegetation that characterizes this region up to a kind of ‘bubble’ where second homes abound; impressive mansions

One of the thousands of exciting activities that South Africa and ist wildlife offer is the shark diving: we dive into the Indian Ocean to meet the Great White Shark. The day starts early, very early. At 5:00 in the morning we leave Cape Town, and after a two-hour drive, we reach Gansbaai, the seemingly