In an incomparable natural setting, on the banks of the Garonne River and overlooking the green forested mountains where zinc was once mined and where brown bones now live, one of the most unique teams in Catalan football plays: Union Esportiva Bossòst. "We are the most international club in Spain," proclaims its president, Miguel Almansa, who is also the Bossòst pharmacist. a town in the Aran Valley, in the terçó de Quate Lòcs, with just over a thousand inhabitants. This small Aranese municipality is located in the northwest of Catalonia, but its life has been focused on France, in the Occitania region, rather than Lleida, of which it is a part of the province.

Aymar Navarro has made history by achieving an almost impossible feat. freerider Aranese He managed to ski down the Tuc des Hemnes channel, an impressive slope that has become one of the most difficult mountains in the Vall d'Aran, both because of its altitude (2,359 metres) and because of the gradient and weather conditions, which make it one of the most difficult in the world.