Juanito Oiarzabal, Mountaineer, 69 Years Old: “I Am a Survivor, I Would Have to Be Dead a Long Time Ago; I Have Managed My Life, but I Have Been Very Lucky”

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Juanito Oiarzabal was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, but he has spent his whole life searching the world for the highest peaks and the most unthinkable adventures. Gestas as being the sixth person in the world to crown the fourteen eight thousand of the planet —and to have achieved it, moreover, without suppletory oxygen—or the first to climb twice the three highest peaks in the world have made him an authentic legend of Spanish and world mountaineeri…