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SANTI PADROS

Having fun in the mountains with my family, friends, and clients, mountaineering as a way of thinking and living, is simply a smile!

Mountaineering and climbing on long and difficult walls are currently my main motivations, with a fast and clean style in doing so.

I started climbing at 16, and until 20 I focused my activities on skiing, ice climbing, mountaineering, and canyoning in the Pyrenees.

From 20 to 30, I broadened my horizons across Europe practicing mountaineering, ski mountaineering, and ice climbing, becoming the activities where I most challenge myself.

In 2003, I began traveling extensively, with a two-month "Yosemite trip" profoundly changing my approach to life. Later, Peru and many other destinations followed.

In 2006, I decided to move to live in the Dolomites, where my passion for ice climbing became almost an obsession!

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I have completed 5 expeditions in the Himalayas with 5 new routes opened on peaks up to 6950m; 4 expeditions in Patagonia with 2 new climbs in the Cerro Adela group (Cerro Torre area); 1 solo expedition in the Cordillera Blanca in Peru, where I made two extreme descents on skis; I climbed in Oman and Morocco, on Reunion Island, in Greece and the USA, climbing and practicing canyoning; in New Zealand I lived great adventures and in Kyrgyzstan I practiced ski mountaineering.

Since 1998, I have been a canyoning guide and became a Mountain Guide in 2001, initially in Spain! Since then, my work has encompassed all aspects of Mountain Guiding, practicing in various Alpine environments. I have guided clients on numerous ascents on foot and on skis including Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Eiger, Weishorn, Dent Blanche, Dom de Mischabel, Alphubel, Tour Ronde, Dent du Geant, Gran Paradiso, Monte Rosa (Tour), Jungfrau, Monch, Dent D’herens. I have guided canyoning clients in Spain, Maritime Alps, Canton Ticino, Dolomites, Corsica, Reunion Island, Greece, Slovenia, and the USA. Currently, most of my professional life is centered in the Dolomites.

I have collaborated as an instructor guide in various Spanish schools (Aragon, Catalonia, Basque Country). In October 2017, I became a Canyoning Guide Instructor in Italy.

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