Home Tags Basque mountain

Tag: basque mountain

Basque mountaineers to the rescue, yet again

El Montañero vasco Alex Txikon y su equipo de rescate.
This article was translated by John R. Bopp The love of the Basques for the mountains is undeniable.  The mountains of our country are always full...

Lehendakari Aguirre’s first tour of the Americas: 76 years of a...

El Lehendakari Aguirre
This article was translated by John R. Bopp When Lehendakari Aguirre started his tour of Latin America in 1942, it was hard to imagine a worse...

An Italian mountain climber, abandoned by his companions at 7,100m (23,300ft),...

Valerio Annovazzi, el alpinista italiano salvado por los montañeros vascos
This article was translated by John R. Bopp This is going to be one of those stories that gets people talking.  Valerio Annovazzi, after summiting Gasherbrum...

Agapito Palacios, from the Alavan Rioja region, who baptized a mountain...

Agapito Palacios, y otros vascos en la cima del "Cerro Euzkadi" en el momento de su "bautizo"
This article was translated by John R. Bopp We’ve said that our blog oftentimes serves as a way to discover new things, and learn much more...

The highest Basque peak is 11,860ft/3,615m tall and is in…the Andes

This article was translated by John R. Bopp (Extended information) All our lives, we’ve always believe that the tallest Basque mountain, at 7,966ft/3,615m, is the Mesa de...