It’s not a common story, but Eider Elizegi felt so deeply connected to the environment and nature that she gave up everything—work, her apartment, and so on—to fully immerse herself in her passion: the mountains. After completing her doctorate in 2003 doctorate the department Histology and Anatomy , under the supervision of Luis Montuenga, with degree scroll Expression and biological activity of proadrenomedulin-derived peptides in lung tumors. New Neuroendocrine Markers," Elizegi has already climbed several peaks in the Pyrenees, the Alps, and even the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, gaining personal experiences that led her to enter publishing house world publishing house publish her novel*Mi Montaña*, for which she won the2010award for Literature, Mountains, Travel, and Adventure.

His passion for the mountains came late in life, coincidentally while he was preparing his thesis at the School of Science the University of Navarra. “While I was working on thesis I liked running and started participating in long-distance races. And practically at the same time, I began climbing mountains in the Pyrenees, took a course in winter mountaineering, and my brother taught me how to rock climb. But the thesis the research so all-consuming that they left me no room to pursue these other interests, such as mountaineering and literature. That’s why, when I finished it, I set this field aside,” she says.

The topic her thesis and mountaineering are unrelated, but Elizegi does see a common thread. "The thesis work an exhausting work that thesis taught thesis a lot about myself: how to cope with stressful situations, how to work as part of a team, how to solve seemingly unsolvable problems... and I think all that experience is useful to me now when I’m mountaineering, and, at least sometimes, the mountains put me in difficult situations," she emphasizes.

In addition, she considers that her status staff , for which she had to face the university programs of study thanks to the scholarships, was good for her to adapt to more complicated situations: "I was able to finish degree program and thesis thanks to the scholarships partnership and research that they gave me. I lived with very little money, and that helped me learn to get by with the minimum, to be very austere and not to spend any money. Now that I'm a vagamontañas and live in a van, that learning comes in handy. Needing few things and little money to live financial aid me to be more free".

Future linked to literature?
Her love for telling her experiences began with the blog'vagamontanyas.blogspot.com'. But he has also decided to tell his experience in a book, 'Mi Montaña', which narrates the four months that Elizegi lived in the refuge of Goûter, at 3,817 meters above sea level, on the highest mountain in Europe, Mont Blanc.

According to Edurne Pasabán, member of the jury of the award he has obtained, "it is not a story of great mountains or great adventures, it is an intimate and close adventure", with which Elizegi tries to make readers feel identified. In the words of the book's publishing house "that is one of the great contributions of this novel, its enormous empathy, the simple ease with which it introduces us to the everyday to get from there to the transcendent".

Looking to the future, Elizegi already has in hand "several literary projects that I want to try to publish. I am also working on other ideas with my sister and brother-in-law, who are illustrators and graphic designers. I would very much like these works to see the light of day", she confirms.

In any case, she does not hesitate in wanting to continue living "very close to the Earth, to eliminate at least a part of the superfluous needs that this society imposes on us, to value the little things that we have forgotten to value (like the water we drink or with which we wash ourselves, the food we eat, the heat that sweetens us or the cold that numbs us, the air we can breathe...) and to live a simple life....) and lead a simple and mineral life very close to the Earth, to the changes in the weather, to the grass, the rocks and the mountains...", he concludes.