SANTI PADROS
Having fun in the mountains, with my family, with my friends, with my clients, mountaineering as a form of thinking and living, simply a smile! Mountaineering and climbing in long and difficult walls are at this moment my main motivations, a fast and clean style the form of doing it. I start climbing when I was 16, and until I was 20 I concentrate my activities with skis, climbing on ice and doing Mountaineering and canyoning in the Pyrenees. From the age of 20 to 30 my horizons expand to Europe practicing Mountaineering, ski mountaineering and ice climbing, becoming the activities in which I most engage. It was in 2003 that I began to travel further, it was a two-month "Yosemite trip" that profoundly changed my approach to life. After that came Peru and so much more. In 2006 I decide to move to live in the Dolomites, where my passion for ice climbing grew to become almost obsession! I made 5 expeditions to the Himalayas with 5 new routes opened on massifs up to 6950m high; 4 expeditions to Patagonia with 2 new ascents in the Cerro Adela group (Cerro Torre area); 1 solo expedition to the Cordillera Blanca in Peru, where with skis I made two new extreme descents; I have traveled to Oman and Morocco climbing, to Reunion Island, to Greece and USA climbing and canyoning, to New Zealand experiencing adventure and to Kyrgystan through ski mountaineering. I have been a Canyoning Guide since 1998 and became a Mountain Guide in 2001, in Spain! Since then, my work embraces all the activities of Mountain Guide, practicing it in different alpine environments. I climb with clients several times on foot and on skis; 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. Canyoning with clients in Spain, Maritime Alps, Canton Ticino, Dolomites, Corsica, Reunion Island, Greece, Slovenja, USA. Currently center most of my professional life in the Dolomites. Several collaborations as driving instructor in different Spanish schools (Aragon and Catalonia, Vasco country). In October 2017, I become Canyoning Guide Instructor in Italy.
