March is a month in which women’s work and struggle are recognized more than at other times of the year, because it is when the International Women’s Day. And this month, Virginia Staricopresident of LaNave Multimodal, Cargo Postal and Fundación La Nave, a woman who claims to have reached the top at a professional level will walk the base of the Mountain Everestas preparation to climb Aconcagua in 2024.
Staricco will travel at the end of the month and will follow the experience of the businesswoman Vanessa Estolthe first Uruguayan in doing this journey.
As Estol told The Observer, Staricco wants to climb three of the seven highest mountains on each continent in less than a year. In March 2023 he will travel to the Everest base. In September he will go to Kilimanjaro, in Africa. In January 2024 he will travel to Aconcagua, and in April 2024 he will travel to climb the summit of Everest.
“This trip is part of a challenge that I have as a woman, first, and as a businesswoman, later,” she said in dialogue with The Observer.
She’s not new to the business world, she’s been around her whole life. He grew up among trucks and at the age of 12 he began to accompany his father at work in the family trucking company. As a girl, her bedroom, instead of the typical artist posters, had images of trucks on the walls.
She went through various jobs, including working in bakeries and also taking care of children, but later returned to work in the transport sector.
Camilo dos Santos
The businesswoman has been linked to the transport sector since she was a child.
Woman, mother and businesswoman
In his business life he has had ups and downs, and now, this adventure “is like breaking a challenge, generating a connection, which at this stage of my life is very important,” he said.
As a mother, she passed “the challenge” of seeing her children grow and move on, and as the leader of a company she faced “storms and successes.”
One of the difficult moments was facing the divorce of her husband and partner in the company for 15 years, a division in the firm and “difficult gender situations”. She now finds herself “in a stage of balance, of maturity” that she faces with a different look and she affirmed that she is going through an emotional search “and to find myself,” she added.
For her, having a goal is key to any venture, and being clear that in order to achieve it, you must follow a path that will be made up of good and bad moments.
As a recommendation for women in the sector who are in moments of “storm”, she reflected: “The important thing is not to get out of the way, always look up. It is like a mountain to climb, in the middle there will be obstacles, but you have to know how to overcome them. You don’t have to stop following dreams, or block yourself from what they say. As a woman it is important to know that one can fulfill all the roles”.
Courtesy Virginia Staricco
Staricco has already climbed mountains in Austria and Germany.
always look up
Going to Everest arose as an initiative of Vanessa Estol, the first Uruguayan mountaineer to reach that summitwho contacted Staricco to invite her to a journey in which people from different countries will participate.
The businesswoman likes adventure and years ago he climbed mountains in Austria and Germany, but this will definitely be his biggest such challenge yet, he said. He overcame his fear of heights by parachuting, and this “is one more challenge,” he added.
The first time he climbed he climbed to 2,000 meters high. They told him that “it was a child’s thing”, and although it seemed risky, he was encouraged. “The only thing I did was look up as I do in all things in my life, climb and climb to the finish line. I never looked down. That speaks of my personality, I am a person who looks forward, and this is part of it, ”he highlighted.
He has been preparing physically to go to Everest for three months, with a training of three hours a day and a healthy diet. The journey will last 15 days, with six-hour journeys each day, in which the base camp of the mountain, which is 5,000 meters high, is covered, carrying different weights. Guides, doctors and nutritionists will accompany the group.
“I am dedicated like everything I do, thinking that I can reach the goal,” he added.
Courtesy Virginia Staricco
“I am dedicated like everything I do, thinking that I can reach the goal,” he added.
UN Representative
in dialogue with The Observer Staricco assured that he was very happy for the adventure that he will undertake. This is a new achievement that adds to a recent recognition, was chosen by the United Nations (UN) to represent Uruguay in America and the Caribbean in the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Within this framework, it will lead a network of companies that will articulate the issue together with the Presidency of the Republic, after having been chosen for this purpose by the National Emergency System (Sinae).
“I will be representing Uruguay in the world in what is such an important issue worldwide. For me it is a great pride, ”she concluded.
This Tuesday she was recognized by Mami Mizutori, Japanese diplomat and deputy secretary general and special representative of the UN General Secretariat, in Punta del Este.
Clarification: a previous version of this note said that the businesswoman will climb Everest, but in reality she will visit the base camp of the mountain, which is 5,000 meters high.
