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A world and Paralympic swimming champion has won a prestigious Spanish prize. Spain s own Teresa Perales has won Spain’s annual Princess of Asturias award for sports. On announcing the prize Wednesday, the judges who awarded her said that the Spanish athlete had become “an example for millions of disabled people of how to overcome difficulties and an icon of international paralympics.” Perales, 45, lost the use of her legs at 19 due to neuropathy became a swimmer when she could not do karate. She has won numerous medals at the Paralympic Games over the past two decades, and is a motivational speaker and physiotherapist. ....
May 22, 2021 Only 44 people have reached the summit of all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks, according to the people who chronicle such things. Or, they now say, maybe no one has. The difference rides on a timeless question getting a fresh look: What is a summit? Ed Viesturs believes he knows. He is one of the 44, the fifth to do it without supplemental oxygen, the only American on the list. In 1993, climbing alone and without supplemental oxygen or ropes, Viesturs reached the “central summit” of Shishapangma, the world’s 14th-highest mountain. Most climbers turn around there, calling it good enough. ....
Ueli Steck ascending Annapurna in the Himalayan mountains. In 1990, Slovenian mountaineer Tomo Äesen claimed to have scaled the south face of Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world. It was declared the greatest feat ever seen in Himalayan mountaineering, but he warned that he had no photos to prove it. Soon afterward, however, he provided some snapshots â stolen from fellow climbers who had tried to conquer this slope years earlier. In 2015, French researcher Rodolphe Popier managed to reveal a second lie by the Slovenian: photos taken with a telephoto lens by a friend of Äesenâs were not shot at base camp on the south face of Lhotse but elsewhere. ....
Babsi Zangerl and Jacopo Larcherâs first date was going surprisingly well. It was looking like they were going to spend the night together â albeit rappelling 28 rope lengths down a sheer rock face. The cable car had shut down hours ago, and the pair were still climbing, off route and hopelessly behind schedule, hundreds of feet off the deck on the south face of Marmolada, the highest peak in northeast Italyâs Dolomites. âMy German was really bad at that time,â said Larcher, who is Italian, âand we couldnât really communicate because we were both tired.â The plan had been to top out the route at 2 p.m. and take a leisurely ride back down the mountain to Malga Ciapela among the sightseers and tourists. Instead, the sun was sinking below the horizon and they were lost in a sea of dolostone. To make matters worse, they had only one headlamp between them. ....