Friday December 6 – 19:30 Euskalduna - Auditorio
In July 2024, a chapter on K2 came to an end. It was time to come to terms with the loss of Kazuya Hiraide and Kenro Nakajima on the western ridge of the Karakorum colossus.
‘Gora Mendi!’ “¡Arriba el Mendi!” exclaimed Kazuya Hiraide, full of enthusiasm, when he presented his fantasy, his project, to us here in Bilbao a year ago. As the roulette wheel would have it, the worst of the number came up, and an unparalleled career in the great mountains of Asia and the world was cutshort.
It was the second time that Kazuya visited the Mendi. He shone at the international premiere of the film “Rope” and was a “Ternua Friend”. He is one of us, and that is how he transmitted it too.
Kazuya and Kenro formed a team that we felt remarkably close to, both as a festival, as an International Alliance, and above all, as people.
