El guardià de l'estany Negre

Miquel Sánchez is one of the most veteran guards in the Pyrenees, if not the most. Forty years after arriving at Ventosa i Calvell, the watchtower of Estany Negre, the illusion remains intact to continue guarding this refuge in the Aigüestortes and Estany de Sant Maurici National Park, on the route of the popular crossing. Fire trucks. This mountaineer, who was part of the first Catalan expeditions to Everest, is a witness to the constant transformation of the mountain. Now, with the company of Belén Ortiz, the coward for more than two decades, receives hundreds of hikers every week of the high season, and being nostalgic for the beginnings, when living in isolation overlooking the Besiberri massif was a stimulating adventure. In the eighties, hardly anyone climbed it, and this gave Miquel a free way to go out every day to open climbing routes on virgin walls and, in winter, to ski in corners unknown to most mortals.