Who is Yandy Núñez, the Cuban who is on his way to Everest?

Mexico City, Mexico.- Right now there is a man ascending the highest mountain in the world. his name is Yandy Nunez and was born in Calabazar, Cuba, 33 years ago.

“I am in the village of Lobuche now, my people, at 4,950 meters above sea level. I arrived around 2pm. Tomorrow we are going to the Everest Base Camp ”, Yandy wrote yesterday on his networks where he updates his followers on each progress of his trip.

To achieve it, would be the first Cuban that reaches the top of this mountain that has an altitude of 8,848 meters above sea level; located on the Asian continent, in the Himalayas.

Núñez left Reykjavik, Iceland, where he has lived since 2015, on April 3, heading to Nepal to begin his ascent from there. This isn’t the first time he’s tried. He had already done it in 2021, but then he had to give up his dream, when he had climbed approximately 8,848 meters of the mountain, because he caught Covid-19 in the middle of his journey and contracted pneumonia.

Two years later, with his personal savings and some donations, the Cuban tries again and brings with him the flags of his homelands: Cuba, where he was born, and Iceland, the country of his wife and son. His dream is to place them on top of the world.

A Cuban in the glory of mountaineering

While he lived on Yandy Island, he did not even climb Turquino Peak. He discovered that passion later when he arrived in the land of fire and ice, the youngest piece of the planet. It was his wife who encouraged him to climb small mountains and then he got caught up in the adrenaline rush of reaching the top.

The Cuban enlisted in the ranks of the Icelandic Rescue Team in 2017. There he learned rescue routines required for climbing and that are also useful in his work as a tour guide in Iceland.

His first great ascent was precisely in the country that welcomed him. Núñez set out to climb Hvannadalshnúkur, with a height of 2,109.6 meters above sea level, the highest elevation on the European island.

Currently Yandy Nuñez is not unknown. The habanero is known, the first Cuban who climbed the 5642 meters to the top of Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe located in southern Russia near the border with Georgia.

In a recent interview with Telemundo, the Cuban said “Don’t give up for something you really want. My message is to show that a free Cuban goes far.”

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