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Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Climber Dies Performing Stunt in Film Documentary — About His Life
Well-known Spanish climber Carlos Suarez, 52, died yesterday in a wingsuit accident. He was performing a stunt for a film about his own life of solo climbing and extreme BASE jumping. The film La Fiera ("The Wild Beast"), directed by Salvador Calvo, was also supposed to document the adventurous lives and premature deaths of a group of close friends of Suarez: Spanish BASE jumping pioneers Dario Barrio, Alvaro Bulto, and Manolo Chana. Improbably, they became a famous chef, a TV anchor, and a successful entrepreneur before all dying in wingsuit accidents. In a further irony, Barrio died jumping at an event that paid tribute to Bulto, who had recently perished. Suarez himself miraculously survived a BASE jumping accident in Galayos in central Spain that nearly cost him his life. He was seriously injured. That, and the trauma of seeing his friends die one after another, finally made him quit BASE jumping and wingsuit flying. He kept rock and ice climbing, paragliding, and participating in expeditions, but also focused on writing, speaking, and photography. Some weeks ago, Suarez admitted he was going to wingsuit again, and for a good reason: "I am going to pay tribute to several of the friends gone some years ago," he wrote. "We are carefully preparing to make sure everything will be safe." The tribute he was referring to was the film La Fiera. Something clearly went wrong with the safety procedures. The accident took place during the pre-production phase while Suarez and other wingsuit pilots were filming some scenes. Details are still sketchy, but they reportedly made a group jump from a hot-air balloon. Three to five people jumped, depending on the source. For some reason, Suarez's parachute and his reserve didn't open properly, and he crashed to the ground. Surprisingly, no one noticed his fatal fall. The alarm only sounded as the film crew drove around to pick up the pilots and discovered that one was missing. They found Suarez's body after a short search. An investigation into the accident is ongoing. The production was scheduled to start in May, and Disney was to distribute it in 2026, El Pais reported. During an interview last year, Suarez described a near miss he had while testing a new model of wingsuit. While in the air, he couldn't find the ring to pull in order to open the chute. He described the moment as total stress but saved the situation by relaxing and carefully groping behind himself to find the ring, which had become lodged in a fold in the suit. Check a clip of the interview in Spanish below. Suarez's death has shocked the Spanish climbing community. Alex Txikon was among the first to share the sad news on Instagram. The Pou brothers also weighed in. "Carlos [Suarez] was a reference for us during the 1990s," they wrote. "We were about the same age, but he was extremely precocious on his solo climbs, on sport-climbing routes, trad, big walls, and alpine routes." Both Txikon and the Pous noted that Suarez had spoken to them last weekend. Suarez had apparently just ended his relationship with a long-time sponsor. Suarez embraced extreme challenges from a very young age. At 17, he soloed the Walker Spur of the Grandes Jorasses and then did the first solo of one of Spain's most iconic trad wall climbs, the Rabada-Navarro to Pico Urriello. He was the Spanish sport climbing champion for three years. Eventually, he became interested in paragliding and then BASE jumping. He especially enjoyed solo climbing + BASE jumping, as he did from Uriellu in the Asturias and from the sandstone walls of Riglos in the Pyrenees. Below, a video of him and Leo Houlding climbing and BASE jumping. His yearly expeditions combined all disciplines of climbing and paragliding. In his books, such as Morir por la Cima ("To Die for the Summit") and the documentary Obsession Patagonia, he often reflected on risk. Suarez planned to climb Saula Peak in the Manaslu region of the Himalaya this year with two companions. Carlos Suarez leaves a wife and a two-year-old daughter.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Yahoo
Springfield police seeks help to find homeless man who may need medical aid
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The Springfield Youth Aid Bureau is seeking the public's assistance in locating a man who may need medical help. Two suspects arrested in Springfield for alleged cocaine trafficking, loaded firearm Carlos Suarez, 29, is described as being 5'6″ and approximately 120 pounds. Carlos is currently homeless, has not been in touch with family members, and may need medication. If you see Carlos or know where he may be, contact Springfield Detectives at 413-787-6360 or the non-emergency line at 413-787-6300. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Miami Herald
18-02-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
One of New York's popular Italian restaurants just opened in Miami with a stunning garden
Carlos Suarez, founder of the popular New York restaurant Rosemary's, grew up in Coral Gables in the 1990s, but after college gravitated to the northeast. And when it came time to open his first restaurant — named for his mother — he opened it in the West Village, then went on to expand in Tokyo, the East Village and Midtown Manhattan. Now, 13 years later, Rosemary's has finally made it to Miami. The Italian restaurant from Suarez's Casa Nela hospitality group is now open in Wynwood. Though he took his time, Suarez said that he has been working to expand south for awhile. 'I've been back here many times since I moved away, but I've always been checking in with Miami, because I have such fond memories of growing up here,' he says. 'But in the past, I always recognized that Miami was probably more interested in flashy, big ticket, big night out stuff that we don't do.' Miami, of course, has changed dramatically recently, a shift fueled at first by the pandemic and an influx of new residents, then by the arrival of the Michelin Guide in 2022, followed by an explosion of development, particularly in Wynwood. But Suarez first started paying closer attention as early as 2007, when Michael's Genuine opened in the Design District, and 2009, when Mandolin Aegean Bistro joined it on the other side of the soon-to-be upscale neighborhood. 'Seeing the success of Michael's and Mandolin started to plant the seed that maybe the market would mature to a place where quality neighborhood restaurants would be celebrated,' Suarez says. By 2014, he was looking at possible spaces for a Miami Rosemary's. Built on the site of a former shoe warehouse and empty lot on Northwest 25th Street, the 7,000-square foot restaurant has an airy indoor dining room with high ceilings with lights strung from them and homey touches like a brick wall and a display of copper pans, an homage to Suarez's Cuban father Raul, who loved his own copper cookware. There's greenery on the indoor tables and everywhere in the outdoor dining area. Designed by New York firm Dekar Design, the entrance welcomes diners with sculpted bougainvillea, and small garden beds are scattered throughout the space. Created with Little River Cooperative's help, the beds of greens, vegetables, herbs and edible flowers are used in several dishes. The gardens are a nod to Suarez's English mother and her vegetable garden in Lucca, Italy (the Suarezes spent about 20 years in South Florida as a family but also lived in Asia and Europe). The New York locations of Rosemary have rooftop gardens, too. Having lived in South Florida, Suarez is well aware of Miami's wet summers, and his team will be installing retractable awnings over much of the outdoor dining area and the outdoor bar. 'There's the success of Mandolin to point to as a restaurant that's thrived despite being 90 percent outside,' Suarez says. 'But we are taking steps to enclose when necessary.' The kitchen is helmed by executive chef Craig Giunta, a former chef at Miami Beach's beloved Macchialina who also worked at Mother Wolf and Concours Club. Rosemary, obviously, is a special theme on the menu: Don't skip the rosemary foccaccia or spectacular rosemary potatoes, and note that the water is also infused with fresh sprigs of the herb. The menu leans toward pasta and seafood , with a few specialties only available in Miami, like the bluefin tuna crudo with citrus, coriander, basil and fennel from the garden; linguini with Florida rock shrimp, lemon bomba chilis and garlic; and Heritage porchetta with zucchini salad and Calabrian date hot sauce. Other choices include orecchiette with sausage, broccoli rabe, Fresno chili and Parmigiano and pappardelle verde with veal Bolognese, a white Bolognese sauce. Dessert options include an olive oil cake draped in blueberry compote, and hot, crispy Bombolini, Italian doughnuts served with a Nutella sauce. Suarez says that despite the number of Italian restaurants in the area — the swanky, nightclub-esque Sparrow Italia just down the street, and Pasta and Otto & Pepe not far away, for example — thanks to Miami diners' passion for food, the neighborhood can sustain multiple restaurants and that the gorgeous outdoor area sets Rosemary's apart. 'The menu is probably similar to places like Pasta and Otto & Pepe, but we brought a garden. We're really trying to lean into local sourcing and growing our produce,' he says. 'We're low key, high quality. We want to prove great dining experiences don't need to be expensive or flashy, and they definitely don't need to be expensive.' Rosemary's Where: 322 NW 25th St., Miami Hours: 5-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday; 5-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday Reservations: Resy More information: or 305-486-2424
