Remembering a
person
His name's Josep Manel Anglada, and he has been a famous climber
in the world of mountain climbing. He was born in Barcelona in 1932, and his father
was a small industrial. I don't know anything about his parents, and he didn't
speak about them. He has a brother too, and he is a nephew of the painter, her
name was Lola Anglada Sarriera.
Between the years 1955 and 2000 he was the most
famous Catalan climber. When he was 6 years old, he studied the Liceu francès in Barcelona. Afterwards, he moved to France with his parents until the Spanish Civil War was over. At the age of 14 years old, in 1947, he continued his studies at the
college in Didsbury, England, to learn the English language, and a year later,
at the French college in Loreburne, France, but every summer, he spent his
holidays in El Figaró.
He was known by his friends for travelling around the world, and he began to climb his first mountains with them.
He holds the Gold Medal of the city of Barcelona for having reached the top of the highest mountains in the world.
He also worked as a technician manager of one of the Spanish expeditions to the Himalayas. He has climbed the Andes, Alps, in Africa
and all other continents, too.
He's not married, and he doesn't have any children as far as I know,
because we have never spoken about them.
At the age of 65 years old, he climed the Everest, and now at the age of 82 years old, he continues walking in our mountains.
Note:
Now, I want tell a personal story: One day, I needed his help to get to the top of a mountain top. If it had not been for him, perhaps today I might not be here.
I will always have a fragment of those good memories on my mind.
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