メキシコ最高峰で３２日間　下山開始

【メキシコ市ＡＦＰ＝時事】「メキシコの屋根」と呼ばれる火山としては北米最高峰のオリサバ山（標高５，６３６メートル）で３２日間を過ごした登山家が２０日、下山を開始した。（写真はオリサバ山の山頂でメキシコの登山家ペルラ・ ティヘリナさんが撮影した自撮り写真。）
　メキシコの登山家、ペルラ・ティヘリナさん（３１）はインスタグラムに投稿した動画で下山開始を報告した。
　その数時間前にＡＦＰに寄せたメッセージでは、女性が「並外れたことをできる」と示すための「個人的な挑戦」だったと述べた。
　ティヘリナさんは携帯電話とソーラー充電器、他の登山家が山頂に持ち込んだバッテリーを使い、ソーシャルメディアへの投稿で挑戦を記録。雪に覆われた山頂、晴天の日の出、荘厳な月夜の写真などに加え、調理に苦労する様子や嵐で揺れるテントの動画なども投稿した。
　「自然、神、自分自身と向き合った。ここは魔法のような場所だ」と述べた。
　登山界では初登頂者や最速・最多登頂者、新ルートを発見した登山家などが有名だが、高所での長期滞在記録は少ない。
　登山専門誌によると、スペインの登山家フェルナンド・ガリードさんが１９８６年、アルゼンチンにある米州最高峰アコンカグア（標高６９６１メートル）に６２日間滞在した世界記録を保持している。
　ティヘリナさんは年内にボリビア、ペルー、チリでのトレーニング遠征を計画している。夢は世界の８０００メートル峰１４座のいずれかに無酸素登頂を果たすことだ。特に世界で２番目に高いパキスタンのＫ２（標高８６１１メートル）制覇は「一番の夢」だという。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/04/21-16:41）

A Mexican mountaineer has spent 32 days living at 5,636 meters (18,491 feet) above sea level on North America's tallest volcano, known as the roof of Mexico.
Perla Tijerina, 31, left the summit on Thursday and began descending Pico de Orizaba, the country's highest peak, according to a video posted on her Instagram account.
The feat was a personal challenge to show that women can do extraordinary things, Tijerina said in messages to AFP hours before going down the volcano, which is also known as Citlaltepetl.
Tijerina documented the challenge on her social media accounts using her cellphone, solar chargers and batteries brought up the peak by other climbers.
She posted majestic images of the snow-covered summit, sunrise on a clear day, the moonlit night, as well as her difficulties cooking and her tent shaking in a storm.
I've been with nature, with God, with myself. This place is magical, she said.
Before attacking the summit of Pico de Orizaba, Tijerina spent a week acclimatizing at altitudes of 3,000 and 5,000 meters.
The world of mountaineering is dominated by those who climbed a peak first, fastest, the most times or found a new route up, but records of staying at height are scarce.
According to specialized publications, Spanish mountaineer Fernando Garrido holds the world record for spending 62 days at 6,961 meters on Argentina's Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, in 1986.
Tijerina is now planning training expeditions in Bolivia, Peru and Chile later this year.
Her dream is to summit one of the world's 14 mountains taller than 8,000 meters without supplementary oxygen.
Pakistan's 8,611-meter K2, the world's second-highest mountain, is my biggest dream, Tijerina said.
She spent eight months in Ecuador preparing to climb the 8,201-meter Cho Oyu in the Himalayas, but hypoxia -- low blood oxygen levels -- forced her to return home.
Mexico has a history of producing great mountaineers.
Carlos Carsolio was the fourth person -- and first non-European -- to climb the 14 eight-thousand-meter peaks between 1985 and 1996, while Elsa Avila became the first Latin American woman to summit Everest in 1999.