There was another woman from Mendoza, Nancy Silvestrini, who was the first Argentine to overcome and reach the summit in an eight thousand, but unfortunately she died on the descent, on July 5, 2003, at the age of 31, in Gasherbrum I -also known as Hidden Peak (Hidden Peak) -, 8,068 meters.
Laura Horta reached the long-awaited summit last Wednesday, at 11:45 Nepalese time, and already in full descent, at camp 3, today she made contact with Télam via satellite phone: “I am immensely happy! I lived the summit of Manaslu with so much joy! There are endless deep emotions, which day by day will pass through my heart and I will share them,” he said.
Regarding her goal, by reaching the summit of the eighth highest mountain in the world and becoming an “eight-miler”, the athlete from Mendoza said: “I took education to the top, to the top of one of the highest mountains in the world, to the rights of all women and to the flag of my country, Argentina”.
“This 8,000 is in Nepal, in the Himalayan chain. There are 14 mountains above 8,000 meters on the entire planet, and I have decided to go for the Manaslu summit, which I was finally able to reach. Manaslu means the ‘mountain of the spirits’, and his name won me over. It is one of the most technical hills,” the mountaineer told Télam.
Manaslu is a very dangerous climb and according to statistics it is the sixth deadliest mountain of the 14 ‘eight thousand’.
Laura is the mother of three children, ages 30, 25 and 23. 11 years ago, with her children coming out of their teens, she put on a jogging tracksuit and went back to doing sports, and soon she was already running very long races, like “La Misión”, 200 kilometers and 160 in the mountains, in the who participated five times.
The university professor started mountaineering 6 years ago and her first summit was none other than Aconcagua, at 6,956 meters, the highest in America.
Horta is part of a running team, Team Aventura, and her coach, Sergio Furlan, motivated her to face this “eight thousand”.
This expedition has a very high cost, 25 thousand dollars, so he sold a truck to pay for a trip to the base of Everest 6 months ago. There he hired the Dream Carrier Trek expedition and met Pasham, who is the Sherpa who speaks Spanish and who is his guide.
They had days of anxiety and a lot of anguish, because once in camp 3, at 6,800 meters, they had to descend because there were several days of rain and danger of snow avalanches, but finally on Wednesday they had a window of benign weather and decided attack the summit.
The university dean, who carried an 8-kilo oxygen tube on her back, assured: “Being an ‘echo-miler’ is a very difficult undertaking and more so for a woman, and on top of that, as is my case, I am not a mountaineer. various sides conquering this summit has been a great challenge, and what I wanted to show is that you can, and you can continue to be a mother, continue to be a housewife, and continue to be a teacher and dean”.
“I have always liked challenges, and being able to show that we have a special strength, although I had to start from scratch, but when we have conviction and commitment to something that one wants to achieve, for our ideals and our purposes, we must not leave aside things even though they may seem impossible”, closed Laura Horta from the Himalayas, in Nepal.
Source: Ambito
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