On September 14, 1985, thousands of Catalans gathered at El Prat airport to welcome the expedition that was returning home after reaching the summit. For the first time, the Catalan flag had flown atop the highest mountain in the world, Everest. Two weeks earlier, Òscar Cadiach, Toni Sors, and Carles Vallès had made history, and Cadiach had been responsible for delivering the good news via a precarious radio connection: “Catalonia has reached the roof of the world”. Curiously, many people still believe that the words were "We have reached the summit", but that was not the case. The Tarragona native, who had climbed without the help of oxygen bottles, arrived with so much energy at the top of Everest that he had time to read the Sextine Ode to some intrepid Catalans that the poet Joan Brossa had dedicated to those brave men.

Sergi Unanue (Banyoles, 1993) couldn't complain about the life he had. He worked as a journalist at Betevé, had friends, lived in an apartment in Barcelona... but something wasn't quite right. "I had always wanted to tell stories and that's why I had studied journalism. As a young man, I wanted to do radio and I ended up in television. I had a good time. In the news section, every day is different. I was one step away from having job and financial stability, but I dreamed of taking a big trip. I had to decide whether to leave the stable life I was building and take the big leap. And I did it without a return ticket." It was the year 2018 and an adventure was beginning that would lead him to walk across the whole of Nepal.

The Earth's roof is rising by two millimeters every year. Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth, has grown between 15 and 50 meters in the last 89,000 years, much more than the other eight-thousanders that make up the Himalayas. This is a geological anomalySince the altitudes of mountains in the same mountain range should be similar, researchers from University College London and the China University of Geosciences may have solved this problem. In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience They have shown that erosion of the Arun Gorge, a river near Everest, is pushing the mountain's summit upward. The summit already measures 8,849 meters (28,500 feet) high, some 250 meters (860 feet) above the next highest peak, K2. According to the researchers, the Arun has carved a significant gorge over millennia, carrying billions of tons of soil and sediment from the base of Everest. This has caused the pressure exerted on the mountain from beneath the Earth's crust, as a result of this constant erosion, to be greater than the force of gravity. This is a phenomenon called isostatic reboundThis occurs when the crust loses too much material and deforms, and the liquid mantle inside the Earth sends great pressure upwards. This would explain why Everest is noticeably taller than the other eight-thousanders in the Himalayas.

A landslide caused by torrential rains left at least five dead and more than a hundred missing yesterday in the Indian Himalayas. A phenomenon called cloud burst It brought intense rainfall in a short period of time to the state of Uttarakhand, where the flash floods devastated a small village.