Josep Manuel Anglada
WOP Foundation Award 2015
Josep Manuel Anglada, born in Barcelona in 1933, is one of the most emblematic climbers in Spain. He has been an instigator of the first expeditions and also the first Spanish climbing seven thousand and eight thousand mountains. He studied in Manchester, where he began doing spelology and climbing. He is one of the pioneer providing audiovisuals of his climbs and expeditions. He is the inventor of the tanca with Jordi Pons and both possess the operating license. He has received numerous awards, medals and honors in his life.
His route, history and his way of doing things led him on this occasion to received the WOP award, which acknowledges the defence and transmission of the social values of mountaineering. Values such as improvement, effort, and teamwork; loyalty and optimism as force for change; knowing how to combine every activity related to mountaineering, climbing or extreme sports with family life... In short, it somehow rewards the vital passion for the mountain. Bilbao Mendi Film Festival will pay him a warm tribute in the Sala BBK, on December 19 at 7:30pm.
