Spanish mountaineer Carlos Soria, 84, He was evacuated to a hospital in Kathmandu this Thursday after the accident. dhaulagiri summit forcing him to leave The last attempt to reach one of the remaining two eight thousand to become the longest-lived person to crown the fourteen highest peaks on the planet.
mountain climber from Avila Fell on the way to the top of Dhaulagirihe has since been waiting at Camp II after being knocked down from the mountaintop by the Sherpas and other teammates.
The mountaineer team posted on their social networks today, “Carlos Soria is in Kathmandu. He was transferred by helicopter from Dhaulagiri CII this morning. He was in the hospital in the Nepali capital to receive initial treatments and diagnosis.” “When Carlos was almost at 8,000 meters, he slipped and fell a few meters below,” Karma Gyalje Sherpa, operations manager for Seven Summit Treks, told EFE.
Soria this week reached Dhaulagiri Camp III (7,200 meters) at the foot of the last section before the summit and made the final push to crown the seventh highest mountain on the planet at 8,167 meters.
Reaching Annapurna at the age of 77, the athlete underwent surgery for a total knee implantation in 2018 due to severe osteoarthritis that causes severe pain. Although Dhaulagiri Not the most dangerous mountain you’ve climbedthis has been particularly difficult.
This season was Soria’s fourteenth attempt to rise to the top of Dhaulagiri. A plan he had to abandon after his first attempt in 1998, twice in 2021, and again in the spring of 2022 due to bad weather.
Soria, who has been climbing mountains since the age of 14, After reaching the age of sixty, he is the only mountaineer in the world who has managed to climb eighteen thousand so far, and his last challenge is to reach 14 in eight thousand.
Dhaulagiri and Shisha Pangma Mountain in Tibet remained for Soria to become the oldest climber to reach the summit of the 14-eight thousand mountain.