Puri Almansa Arribas

Puri was born in the nearby University town of Salamanca, where she graduated in Biology. She achieved a master's degree in tree ecophysiology in that university, and then travelled to the Isle of Man to work in environmental impact assessments in marine habitats. More recently she has done some work for the European Environment Commission researching the quality of environmental impact studies. She is completely fluent in English and Spanish. In the early nineties she learnt to fly paragliders, and she has been involved with every aspect of the sport ever since. As a member of the Spanish paragliding team she has flown in both the World and European championships events. Puri was the ladies Spanish champion in 1998, and was amongst the top ten overall ranked Spanish pilots in 1997. A licensed instructor, she has been a key member in all the important international events held in Piedrahita.

She has spent the last 13 years exploring every corner of this region, both from the air and on land, and knows its wildlife very well.

In 2001 her first child was born and she decided to dedicate most of her time to her family and running the business. However, now that the children are a bit older she wants to fulfil an old dream: spending the day walking on the hills and showing visitors that there is one Spain which is not in the tourists leaflets and has a lot to offer.