In Latin America, I have received only love and positivity from people. It is a great honor and responsibility to be the first woman from the Americas to accomplish this. You are the first woman from the Americas to climb both Everest and K2 with no Os. “I felt like the mountain received us with open arms,” recalls Perez.Ī Cleanup Operation Has Removed Tons of Trash and Dead Bodies From Mount Everest Read article The team got lucky when a wind event cleared the snow en route to the summit. Perez, who was climbing with Adrian Ballinger and supported by her life partner Esteban “Topo” Mena, Palden Namgye, and Pemba Gelje Sherpa (all on oxygen), waited out the weather. Ninety percent of the teams turned around due to record snowfall causing high avalanche danger. This year was a difficult season on K2, the second-tallest mountain in the world. Nearly 9,000 people have summited Everest, yet only seven have been women without supplemental oxygen. A guide for Tahoe-based AlpenGlow Expeditions, Perez climbed Everest without supplemental oxygen in 2016 and summited on the same day as Melissa Arnot, from the United States, who also climbed without oxygen. Perez has achieved what only three other women in the world have done-Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Italian Nives Meroi, and Brit Alison Hargreaves, who died on her way down from the summit of K2. I can feel their energy and strength transfer to me and discover other sides of myself.On July 24, 2019, when Ecuadorian climber Carla Perez stood on K2’s 28,251-foot summit, she became the first woman from the Americas to climb both K2 and Everest without supplemental oxygen. I’m also inspired by words, I love reading autobiographies because I do the exercise of imagining how their lives were and I put myself in it for a few days. Sometimes I’m walking on the streets and I see an image that leads me to write a song or inspires me to recreate that image in a picture. Where do you draw inspiration from for your work? I see it as when you cook a great meal for your friends you have to dedicate time and little by little you’re building the dish. The patience and effort that it requires is incredible. I am definitely inspired by handcrafting. I’m from a little village near Barcelona, it’s called Argentona and it’s known for its ceramic history. Fighting and working little by little on my purpose.Īuprès is much inspired by the art of handcrafting. What’s your relationship with handwork? When you play an instrument that relationship is quite evident, but would love to know more from your personal experience. I am a strong person and that definitely comes from my upbringing. The way I was raised has always been acknowledging where we come from and sometimes with limits of what I’ve been able to do. I come from a very humble family from different parts of Spain. How do you think your upbringing influenced what you do today? Both are storytellers for me, a way to document my journey. Photography is a moment to meditate, to create without limits, and to express myself through other people and objects. Playing live music is a huge cleanse of my dark thoughts and negative ideas. Music gives me freedom and the sense of exploring and learning about myself. I got into music by dancing and photography because my dad had an old Nikon at home that I used without permission and burnt a lot of film. How did you get into working with these two mediums? And what do they appeal to you? You have a multidisciplinary practice as a musician and photographer. I chose a creative pathway because it is the language I speak and it’s the only way I understand progress and life. I am a very restless person, always trying new things, exploring mountains, and redistributing my room. There is this thing I love about taking pictures that I can do by myself and in my mind everything makes sense. Later on, I met Jazz Rodríguez and we started the post punk-band MOURN that has been my job for 7 years now. I used to watch video tutorials online and sing covers all day. I found myself singing all the time and making up songs in my head so I decided to learn guitar by myself. I was a happy kid enjoying sounds, movements and expression. I started my creative trajectory when I was 4 years old and I started dancing Jazz and Ballet. Could you tell me a little about you and your trajectory? What made you choose a creative pathway?
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