Published by DEIA, Nov. 17, 2011
Rightly or wrongly we all try to stretch the most of our youth. Health, energy and, above all, the illusion that surrounds us are the hallmarks of it. Not many years ago a 60 year-old person was considered old and was beginning to cease certain daily activities. Today, I guess it could be because of our way of living but also for other reasons, the elderly have to face an abrupt cessation of activity. And as it is, reading a very surprising article I found about a mountaineer.
Carlos Soria was born in Avila in 1939, which lived through the war, and since then he has never stopped dreaming of the mountains, one of his great passions in life. This upholsterer worker, always linked to mountaineering, ascended his first eight thousand at 51 and since then has carried out a series of expeditions until this spring, and with his 72 years, has been able to crown thttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhe Lohtse. Next March he wants to try the Kanchenjunga, Annapurna and then finally closing the Dhaulagiri mountains.
Anyone who reads this article would think Carlos is a lucky man, and yes it is true, it is. But also we must make a second reading of history, Carlos’s knees hurt, his back bothers much, and until he retired he couldn’t live intensity his passion.
To carry out his Everest expedition he had to borrow money from the bank, demonstrating a strong personal involvement in what he wanted. A friend of mine says "do not look at my achievements, let’s analyze my efforts." We usually always stay with the outcome of things without realizing what the person betted and lost on the way. Every dream, every achievement carries a price we have to pay and are the ones who decide to go ahead with it or not. Moreover, in the case of Carlos, this is all possible by keeping your mind young, as I have always said, it is there, where things are born, die and coexist all that we can do or not.
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