Sunday December 14 – 12:00 Euskalduna Bilbao
LLucía Guichot and Nieves Gil, rope teammates since joining the Spanish FEDM Mountaineering Team in 2018, will tell us about their careers as mountaineers and, more specifically, their latest ascent of the ‘Eternal Flame’ route in the Trango Towers, in Pakistan’s Karakorum. In August 2024, they climbed this legendary 800m 7c+ A2 M6 route, opened in 1989 by the Germans Kurt Albert, Wolfgang Güllich, Christof Stiegler and Milan Sykora. The route is rated as one of the most beautiful and difficult at high altitude in the world at its 6,250 metres and takes its name from a beautiful song by The Bangles.
Nieves and Lucía live in the Aragonese Pyrenees and work in nature (a forest ranger and a mountain guide). Whenever possible, they maintain their commitment to undertake one expedition per year, which has led them to explore different mountain ranges around the world: Patagonia, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Peru.