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Fernando
Gonzalez-Rubio on the Summit K2 |
Fernando
Gonzalez is going after his 4th eight-thousand
Colombian
climber Fernando González Rubio Polanco started last Monday, June 13, his
adventure in Pakistan, where he will climb Nanga Parbat, 8,125 m, the
ninth highest mountain of the world.
This time
Fernando will be a team for Colombia, his next expedition which will start on
June 13, Nanga Parbat, called the Naked Mountain, has big altitude differences
an all its faces, especially by the Rupal Face, 4,500 m, the highest wall on
Earth. Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain of the world with 8,125 m,
and is located in Pakistan.
His
schedule starts on Monday, June 13, leaving from Bogota to Paris, London,
Islamabad and Gilgit, where he will start a trek to the base camp of the
mountain.
Fernando
wants to climb the 14 highest mountains of the world, of over eight thousand
meters of altitude, located all of them in the mountain system of the
Himalayas.
Fercho
wants to send a message to Colombians with this project, to make a national
effort, beyond the expected to recover the union among us. His is a message
of peace.
Translated
from Spanish by Jorge Rivera
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