One of the founders of the Chiruca hiking boot brand, Joan Fontfreda, has died. He was 92. Mr Fontfreda founded Chiruca with his brother, Lluís, in the years following the Spanish Civil War and World War II. They set out to make rubber-soled boots suitable for use in the high mountains of the Pyrenees, close to their home in Catalonia. Chiruca...

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