DENIS URUBKO LA ELEGANCIA DE LA EFICIENCIA

Denis Urubko, one of the great references in world mountaineering, a freelance journalist, writer and speaker at conferences, has treasured an extraordinary sports record in his thirty years of activity. He climbed the fourteen highest peaks on the planet in nine seasons and without additional oxygen. Some of them, moreover, along new routes or carrying out first winter ones. Among his great achievements is the ascent of three eight-thousanders with barely eleven days apart, without oxygen, without rope partners or the assistance of Sherpas or porters, and in alpine style.

But in his career, above all, his supportive facet and his intervention in dozens of rescues in the Death Zone stand out. In one of them, in May 2008, a call woke him up while he was sleeping in his Kathmandu hotel. He did not hesitate, he went straight towards one of the most demanding walls of the Himalayas, the south face of Annapurna, to help his friend Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, trapped at 7400 m. Or years later he came to give up trying the winter ascent to K2 to rescue Élisabeth Revol on Nanga Parbat. This book describes these and many other episodes in which Denis Urubko has had the opportunity to help in the Himalayas and in the Karakoram. Extraordinary survival stories told in an intimate way but at the same time sprinkled with humor, irony and a critical spirit, in which they make us reflect on the essence of mountaineering, or the legitimacy of knowing how to take risks to save the life of another human being. But as its author says: «The mountains will always captivate by their beauty and their adventures. And there will be people who come to help when trouble comes."