ed. tushita Tormenta en el Manaslu

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TORMENTA EN EL MANASLU 1972-2022 - 50 ANIVERSARIO DE LA EXPEDICIÓN

STORM IN THE MANASLU. 1972-2022 - 50th Anniversary of the Expedition.

“Dejected, we headed back. I was terribly thirsty, even beginning to hallucinate with water. I saw a lake that had neither beginning nor end, I saw water gushing from a fountain, I saw water in pots and jugs. We walked in the direction of the store, found a deep ditch in the snow, and sat down.

I lay down in the snow and caught my breath. So I got up, took a deep breath and started walking. I took two, three steps. We would walk a bit and sit down, and then we would walk again. I swung my legs forward and held my balance with the ice ax. I couldn't see my boots, because they were totally covered with snow. A thick crust of snow had also formed on top of my pants…”

“As part of a zip line expedition Reinhold Messner confronted Manaslu for the first time along the southern slope, in those years still one of the great “unsolved problems” of the Himalayas. Messner reaches the summit. However, during the descent the weather conditions suddenly worsen. A terrifying snowstorm breaks out. For Messner and his companions, a dramatic race between life and death begins.”