Scale the 16 highest peaks in Spain with diabetes

Barbastro Arturo Carvajal mountaineer completed his challenge with the ascent to Aneto on the weekend.

Having diabetes is not an impediment to practicing sports and much less mountaineering, although you have to be aware of the limitations it entails and be cautious.

That is the message that Montañero Barbastrense Arturo Carvajal has wanted to launch to society with his challenge ’16 tops with diabetes ’with which he has crowned the highest summits of each autonomous community.

The challenge began last year and after an injury that took it for a few months, it was resumed in summer to finish this weekend at home, making Aneto, (3,404m), the highest peak in Aragon.

He was accompanied by his friends Alberto, Andrés, Alex and Claudia in a marked deed of symbolism, without pretending, since his ascension occurs a few days before the 75th anniversary of the Foundation his club, mountaineers of Aragon Barbastro (MAB), on the 25th ofJuly.

To celebrate this event, MAB will celebrate on Saturday 27 a meal to which the most veteran partners will go.

The ascension occurred on Friday.At 2,500 m they made a vivac and with the first lights they faced the rise to the summit, which today at 8.30."The glucose sensor did not work due to low temperature." We all melt into a celebration hug and we started the descent.

The blood glucose remained very constant during the two days, in figures around 100. I was not the only one with this condition: Ángel and Alex also have diabetes and both carried very good blood glucose control, ”explained Arturo Carvajal, happy for the featAnd grateful for the presence of his classmates and up to thirty friends, some also with diabetes, which he has met when facing this challenge throughout Spain.Acknowledgments also to Montañeros de Barbastro, Aragón Office, Optics San Ramón, Iramar Energía, Gluco Up, and the media for giving visibility to diabetes.

"I feel a lot of joy, it has been very exciting to travel throughout the year all the spikes of Spain and with so many people, it still costs me to assimilate it," he explains.