Manaslu 1975: 50 years of the first Spanish eight thousand

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Spain stepped on the Moon today 50 years ago. On April 26, 1975, Galician Jerónimo López and Madrid’s Gerardo Blázquez conquered Manaslu (8.163m) and became the first Spanish climbers to leave their mark on the summit of an eight thousand. Half a century later, turning the Himalaya into an amusement park instead of a land of adventure, the two climbers retain an indelible memory of those days. And both relive in EL PAÍS the gesture that then mea…