Araceli Segarra (Lleida 1973) es conocida como la primera mujer española en coronar el techo del mundo, el mítico Everest. Y en esta ocasión debe ser conocida, además, por su colaboración con un proyecto que fomenta y facilita la adopción de animales de compañía abandonados.
A los 15 años Araceli se inició en la espeleología alcanzando su cota más baja (-1.070 metros) en la sima GSEM, Málaga. Tres años después escalaría su primer 3.000 y a los 21 realizaría su primera expedición al Himalaya. Kenia, Pakistán, Tibet, Marruecos, Estados Unidos, Francia, Italia, Canadá, Nepal, India, Mali, Líbano, China, México, Argentina… son muchas y muy distantes las montañas que ha escalado hasta el momento.
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Araceli, que se diplomó en Fisioterapia por la Universidad Blanquerna, ha colaborado en numerosos programas de radio y televisión, y ha escrito para periódicos y revistas. Participó en la realización del documental “Everest, Mountain without Mercy” de la Nacional Geographic y participó en el rodaje de la película “Siete años en el Tíbet” (de Brad Pitt) como ayudante de cámara. Igualmente fue protagonista del documental “Mujeres y K2” de la Nacional Geographic.
Back in the day, only a handful of American female climbers could boast this kind of buffed-out rip. Sharon was one of ‘em. After a steady, multi-year diet of 5.11 and 5.12 cracks, big walls, french limestone, alpine epics, hard bouldering, and multi-month road trips, she had some serious cut. Here she is in her prime, Spring 1987, warming up on some generic Jtree mega-classic…guess the route! (Photo by: Unknown)
From her bio at Kidzworld.com: “Tori Allen grew up climbing trees with monkeys in the jungles of Africa. She now lives in the United States - but she’s still one of the best climbers and she still hangs out with monkeys. When Tori Allen was four years old, she moved with her parents to Benin, a small country in Africa, because her parents were working in a Christian mission. While she was there, Tori began climbing trees and soon adopted a mona monkey named Georgie who followed her into the trees everywhere. Before Tori Allen and her family returned to the United States, Georgie was bitten by a snake and died. While Georgie went to monkey heaven, Tori went to Indiana and started climbing on climbing walls when she was 10. A month later Tori Allen entered her first wall climbing competition and won.”
Tori won the speed climbing title at the X games in 2002.
“”I learned to climb with my older brother, sister and her boyfriend in Southern California in 1975. I was 14 years old at the time and simply happy to tag along with them wherever they went climbing. Most weekends were spent in Joshua Tree or at Tahquitz and Suicide Rock, but occasionally we would go to a few local practice areas such as Big Rock, Stoney Point. My opportunities multiplied when I bought my first car and began traveling to new places on my own. I would sometimes venture out to more distant places like the Needles or Mount Woodson, and during my last years of high school, I spent my summers climbing in Yosemite for as long as my limited savings would allow.”
Araceli Segarra (Lleida 1973) es conocida como la primera mujer española en coronar el techo del mundo, el mítico Everest. Y en esta ocasión debe ser conocida, además, por su colaboración con un proyecto que fomenta y facilita la adopción de animales de compañía abandonados.
