Bestard Award FINALE 2025
‘BESTARD Award’ within the Luca Memorial Photo Contest
You can participate uploading your photos, until 11 January '26.
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ℹ️ Brand Awards
BESTARD Award 2025 'within the ‘Luca Memorial Contest FINALE’.
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One winner photo will be awarded the ‘BESTARD Award 2025’, consisting of the best sellers:
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🔹CANYON GUIDE high-cut (218EUR)
🔹WILDWATER PRO mid-cut (209EUR)
💵 set valued at approx. $500 USD
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The CANYON GUIDE – a classic model for swift water activities, and a favourite within the international canyonering community and also for tough&demanding activities such as complex expeditions, jungle treks etc.
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The WILDWATER PRO - a new very exciting mid-cut boot. Its special construction with one fix & one removable footbed allows for use with normal socks for the approach, and with neoprene socks after removing the footbed.
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Founded in 1940, BESTARD ( https://bestard.com ) is a small, specialized family company that has grown & evolved to an internationally recognized manufacturer of technical, high quality mountain footwear. Selling in more than 30 countries,is one of the few companies in this field manufacturing most of their boots, including the above mentioned canyoneering boots, in their own factory in Mallorca, Spain
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🗓️ Winner to be announced 24 February 2026.
(duties for delivery outside the EU to be covered by winner)
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🔥 ENTER THE CONTEST! You too can submit your photos! Open worldwide, free participation.
Deadline: 11 January 2026
BESTARD MOUNTAIN BOOTS
Announcements 20 FEB 2023:
in Paris Time:
10:00 Products & Company
12:00 Nominations
16:00 Winner
Announcements in progress TODAY:
Updates Central European Time:
12:00 Products & Company
15:00 Nominations
18:00 Winner
12:00 Products & Company
15:00 Nominations
18:00 Winner
NOMINATIONS:
TO BE ANNOUNCED 10 February 2026
BESTARD Award 2025 within the ‘Luca Memorial Contest ’.
The @bestardboots team has selected their TOP 5 photos from the 2025 finalist entries.
💬 BESTARD comments: "As always, it has been very difficult to choose only five among so many fantastic photographs, but in the end we are pleased to share our verdict with you."
🏅NOMINATED (in ascending photo Nº)
Nº 6019 Jason Nuñez Sanchez (COSTA RICA)
💬 The location itself, and the difficulty of capturing a sharp image under such extreme conditions.
Nº 6041 Steven Boisvert (CANADA)
💬 The new frontier between speleology and canyoning: descending ice canyons and exploring within glaciers.
Nº 6057 Steph Dumortier (FRANCE)
💬 The combination of water, the rainbow, and the descent into the unknown creates a truly special atmosphere.
Nº 6151 Israel Peña (SPAIN)
💬 Speleology: a vivid representation of the power of water, capable of carving this immense shaft.
Nº 6152 Arno Poppelaars (BELGIUM)
💬 Cave diving: one of the last human frontiers, considered among the most demanding and high-risk activities in existence.
🗓️ Winner announced 24 February
10 Feb'26
WINNER:
TO BE ANNOUNCED 24 February 2026
ANNOUNCEMENT IN PROGRESS
until 20th September
BESTARD Award 2024 'within the ‘Luca Memorial Contest 2024’.
Nº04206 : Thibaud Galai (FRANCE)
Instagram: @thib.mountain
📍 Location: FRANCE
🔗 https://LucaMemorial.Org/04206
💬 @bestardboots : "'Cold Fragility': We find this to be one of the most interesting images, representing the fragility of ice and the multitude of shapes that can be found in such a constantly changing environment as a glacier."
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Congratulations Thibaud!
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🏅 VERY HONORABLE MENTIONS!!:
👏🏻👏🏻Congratulations also to Abel, Pedro, Alex and Adrián, for their magnificent photographs and impressive sporting achievements. Well done!
Nº00744 : Abel Ibáñez (SPAIN)
Nº00749 : Pedro Diniz Fram Ferraz Henriques (BRAZIL)
Nº02274 : Alex Cantrell (UNITED STATES)
Nº03731 : Adrián Román Trejo (MEXICO)
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🔥🏆🔥The Winner prize consisting of @bestardboots best-selling products:
🔹CANYON GUIDE high-cut (218EUR)
🔹WILDWATER PRO mid-cut (209EUR)
💵 set valued $450 USD
18 Feb 2025
You can participate uploading your photos
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BESTARD Award 2022 'within the ‘Luca Memorial Contest 2022’.
In January 2023 an internal Bestard Mountain Boots team will pick by their own criteria which are the BEST PHOTOS among the resulting finalists in Luca Memorial Contest 2022.
The winner photo will be awarded the ‘BESTARD Award 2022’ consisting of the best sellers of the brand:
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CANYON GUIDE high-cut WILDWATER PRO mid-cut 
pack valued at aprox. 430USD (407EUR)
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The CANYON GUIDE – already a classic model designed for swift water activities. Its stability, ruggedness, low weight, confort, durability, built in gravel-gater etc. has made it a favourite within the international canyonering community, not the least for tough and demanding activities such as expeditions to remote and complicated canyons including long approach marches and jungle treks; for sea- and mountain rescue teams; subacuatic caving etc.
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The WILDWATER PRO is a new very exciting mid-cut boot for activities such as canyoneering, backrafting, swift water kayaking, caving etc. Its special construction with one fix and one removable footbed allows for use with normal socks for the approach, and with neoprene socks after removing the footbed.
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Founded in 1940, BESTARD (https://bestard.com) is a small, specialized family company that has grown and evolved to an internationally recognized manufacturer of technical, high quality mountain footwear. It is now selling in more than 30 countries around the world, and is one of the few companies in this field still manufacturing most of their boots in their own factory in Mallorca, Spain.
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The winner will be announced at the beginning of February 2023. (duties for delivery outside the EU to be covered by winners)
ENTER THE CONTEST! You too can submit your photos!
Open worldwide, free participation. Closing on 31 December 2022.
Visit https://CONTEST.LucaMemorial.Org
30 Jan 2023
ANNOUNCEMENT
OUTEX AWARD 2021
TUTORIAL
'How to Submit Photos'
English
TUTORIAL
'Cómo enviar fotos'
🇪🇸 Español
OUTEX brand has been invited to pick by their own criteria which are the BEST PHOTOS among the resulting finalists in Luca Memorial Contest 2022.
OUTEX Award announcement (link in bio)
valued at 435USD<<OUTEX
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#1 OUTEX WINNER, Photo of the Year 2021Xabier Garcia (SPAIN)
Number 2!, Honorable Mention!!Matthias Holzinger (SWITZERLAND)
Number 3!, Honorable Mention!!Guillermo Sánchez (SPAIN)
Want more photos?View FINALIST 2021 GALLEY (the 90 Best photos of 2021):
️ The Luca Memorial photo contest is the only annual international contest focused exclusively on photos of Caves & Canyons. Luca Chiarabini
MEMORIAL
Photo Contest
2026
Worldwide Edition
(Free participation)
THANK YOU BESTARD!
For your great support and cooperation with Luca Memorial Contest.
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