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ASEGUIM
[Asociacion Ecuatoriana de Guias de Montaña]
We are members of ASEGUIM, the Ecuadorian Association
of Mountain Guides. Back in 1990, when the demand for
guides was growing, the need to improve the standards
of local mountaineers became clear. As a result a group
of climbers created the Association of Mountain Guides.
The first courses were given by Instructors of the local
Climbing Federation, an amateur institution. Nowadays
they are given by professional instructors. ASEGUIM works
together with the National School of Guides in France
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WFR
[Wilderness First Responder]
Wilderness Medical Training is important for professionals,
active in the outdoor industry. WFR is a widely recognised
outdoor medical training qualification. Most of our guides
have followed the Wilderness First Responder course, which
is given in co-operation with SOLO from the US. |
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ENSA
[Ecole Nationale de Ski et d'Alpinisme]
Since 1994 the National School of Guides ENSA from Chamonix
in France has been providing training courses to Ecuadorian
guides. This has helped enormously to improve standards
of safety in the mountains of Ecuador.
Since 1995 ten Ecuadorian guides have been trained in
Chamonix to become Instructors of the local School of
Guides. Some of these instructors are currently guiding
for Andeanface. Nowadays our School of Guides qualifies
a group of new guides every 4 years. |
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IFMGA
[International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations]
Ecuador is now a new member of the IFMGA (International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations), formerly called UIAGM. There are actually twelve ecuadorian guides and aspirant guides who now hold the international guiding license. Some of them are currently working for Andeanface.
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| Who
Are We? |
Andeanface
is an Ecuadorian-Dutch climbing and trekking
company. As direct operators we specialise in
mountaineering & trekking in Ecuador. We
also provide logistic support for expeditions
in Ecuador. And we co-ordinate voluntary work
programs in order to help the street children
of our country.
Our name refers not only to the mountain faces,
but also to the faces of the children of the
Andes. Andeanface combines two meaningful realities
which are the driving forces of our lives: the
mountains and kids of the Andes.
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Our
Mission
To
provide reliable outdoor services to people
who love nature and to provide logistic support
for international outdoor organisations, while
making a contribution towards the development
of the local communities where we operate. We
strongly believe that tourism can help children
living in poverty in Ecuador. Therefore we support
the Daniëlle Children’s Fund and
develop voluntary work programs together.
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Our
commitment is to assure our clients satisfaction
in every aspect of their experience in Ecuador.
We achieve this by putting all our experience
and knowledge to serve our customers in the
way they expect from us.
As mountaineers and guides, we love to share
with our clients our love for the mountains
and what we have learned from them through the
years: freedom, camaraderie and teamwork. After
10 years organising expeditions to the Andes
of Ecuador, we know what makes a climbing and
trekking expedition different: maximum attention
to every detail, so none of the aspects we can
control are left to improvisation.
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| Our
Philosophy |
For us, mountaineering is not a sport in which the ideas of fearlessness determine who you are as a person. Records and competitiveness are irrelevant and "the fastest or the first ascents" are not always the most spectacular. The mountains help us to find other values that are more fulfilling.
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Javier
Herrera
The Director and Head Guide of Andeanface,
Javier has been climbing in Ecuador
for more than 17 years and organising
expeditions for ten. As a mountaineer
he has led many ascents in the Andes,
the Alps, the Karakorum and the Himalayas,
with eight expeditions to Nepal including
being the guide on two eight thousand
meter peaks.
He is one of the Instructors of the
Ecuadorian Association of Mountain
guides (ASEGUIM), and has completed
several courses with ENSA, the French
National School of Guides.
During his cycling career he won 7
times the National Road Racing Championship,
and also a gold and silver medals
in the Pan-American games of 1990,
for which he was awarded the Presidential
Medal of Honour for the highest merit
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Helma
van der Hoeven
Helma is the Director of the voluntary work
programs of Andeanface. She was born in
Holland and worked a few years in London
as a stockbroker, but decided to leave her
job in order to achieve her dream of helping
children in need. She left to Nepal to work
as a volunteer in a children's hospital
where she personally felt the reality of
life of poor kids in a Third World country.
She decided to create the Daniëlle
Children's Fund to provide assistance and
better opportunities for poor children of
Nepal, and later of Ecuador, her husband's
country of birth, and the place where both
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| The
Guides
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As
guides we are the pioneers of the new guiding
tradition that began in 1980, when the first
local guides started leading climbers to
the summits of Cotopaxi and Chimborazo.
Since then we have made many ascents in
the Andes, we have brought our professional
careers to a higher level by following training
courses in the European Alps and we have
led expeditions in other continents including
to some of the 8.000 m / 26,000 ft peaks
in Asia.
We have guided and instructed clients of
all ability levels within the Andes and
worldwide, to far away challenges as Everest,
Ama Dablam, Cho Oyu, Gasherbrun II, Aconcagua,
Huascaran, Illimani and many others. |
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Jose
Luis Peralvo
Jose Luis, besides climbing in Ecuador,
has guided in every country of the Andes
including five expeditions to Aconcagua.
He has led expeditions to Peru, Bolivia,
Argentina and to Nepal, where in 2002 he
became the first Ecuadorian guide to lead
clients to the summit of Everest,
and repeated this endeavour in 2005 and
2008. He has completed training courses
at the French School of Guides in Chamonix
and at DAV, the German Alpine Club in Munich.
From 1998 till 2002 he was Director of the
Mountain Guiding School ASEGUIM (Ecuadorian
Association of Mountain Guides). Jose Luis
is a very pleasant person to be with, a
fluent English speaker and one of our senior
guides. Holds a WFR wilderness medicine
certificate as well as IFMGA aspirant guide license |
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Jaime
Avila
Jaime Avila has successfully guided expeditions
in every country of the Andes for international
mountain guiding organizations including
ascents of Aconcahua through the polish
glacier route, several expedition in Bolivia,
successful ascents of Alpamayo and Huscaran
in Peru and several other less known peaks
in the Andes as well many expeditions in
Ecuador.
In 2003 he was the assistant leader of a
commercial expedition to Denali in Alaska
and after that he managed to develop his
professional career further afield out of
the Americas.
In 2004 he led a successful expedition to
Amadablam and to Island Peak located in
the heart of the Himalayas.
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Joshua Jarrín
Joshua Jarrín started to climb at age of ten with the San Gabriel
climbing club of Quito. His fist expedition outside of the country
was to Peru when he was sixteenth. In twelve years of
mountaineering he has climbed in Peru, Argentina, Bolivia,
Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Austria,
remarking the south face of Aconcagua (Argentina), a new route
in Huscaran Ulta´s face (Peru), the Frendo pillar in Aiguille du
Midi (France) to mention some of his career. As guide, he is
member of the Aseguim and also aspirant international mountain
guide (IFMG). He also holds a B.A. in Culinary Art, so when he
is not working as a guide, he enjoys spending time as a Chef.
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Benno
Schlauri
A swiss guide
living in Ecuador since 1994 happilly married
to Mariana a Ecuadorian National. Benno
started skiing at the early age of 4, since
he was 14 he was a member of the Swiss Alpine
Club where he did a extensive climbing career
in the Alps. He is one of the few ASEGUIM
guides who is qualified to lead ski descents
in Ecuador.
Since his arrival to South America he has
continuously been guiding in most
of the Andean countries of South Americas
specially in Ecuador. At the moment is one
of the Instructors of the Ecuadorian Association
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Felipe Jacome
An experienced high altitude climber and
a cheerful fellow, Felipe has been an instructor
of the local Mountaineering Federation (EPAM)
and a driving force of the Mountaineering
Club of the Catholic University of Quito.
His extensive climbing background include
most of the mountains of Ecuador with some
technical routes, several 6.000 meter peaks
in the rest of South America including some
expeditions to the highest peaks of Peru
and Bolivia, has also led a few ascents
in the European Alps. Felipe has completed
courses in Europe with the Spanish School
of Mountaineering and the French School
of Guides ENSA. Felipe holds a university
degree in Eco-tourism as well as a Wilderness
Emergency Medical qualification as a technician
given by WMI of NOLS (Wilderness Medicine
Institute of NOLS) from the US. At the moment
Felipe is the Director of Mingai
www.mingai.org
a center for medical outdoor training.
Felipe has become fully IFMGA certified in September 2009 |
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Nacho Espinosa
Has completed his studies of Anthropology
at the Catholic University of Quito and
has a good level of Kichwa, the native
language of the Incas. In 2005 took part
in a guiding course given by the French
School of Guides ENSA in Bolivia.
Nacho has taken part in many expeditions
to the southern Andes such as Alpamayo,
Artesunaraju, Cayesh and Chopicalqui en
Peru, the West face of Huayna Potosi, Sajama
and Hallomen in Bolivia. In Ecuador has
led many commercial expeditions to the main
peaks. Nacho has also attempted the mysterious
north face of Obispo “the hardest
climb in Ecuador” Holds a WFR
certification given by WMI of NOLS (Wilderness
Medicine Institute of NOLS) from he USA. Holds a IFMGA aspirant guide license |
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Edison
Oña
A keen Marathon runner
and a qualified mountain guide. Edison balances
his love for climbing in Ecuador with a
strong commitment to developing his photographic
skills. Has been guiding in Ecuador since
1994 with more than 100 successfu ascents
of Cotopaxi and Chimborazo. Among his accomplishemts
he led the first traverse of all the summits
of Altar, the hardest peaks in Ecuador.
Edison for the last 10 years has also been
leading expeditions to the southern Andes
of Peru, Bolivia and Argentina where he
has climbed several times Aconcahua, the
highest mountain of the Americas. He has
an outstanding reputation as a leader
and guide. He accomplished one of his dreams
of climbing in Nepal by being the driving
force of the 1st Ecuadorian expedition that
suceeded on Everest in 2006. In June 2009 he climbed Mount Denali in Alaska. Edison is a
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Gaspar
Navarrete
Gaspar is one of the most technically skilled
guides of Ecuador. Besides climbing in Ecuador
he has led trips to other Andean countries
and climbed many interesting routes in the
European Alps including the Eiger North
Wall. He has attended several training courses
with the French School of guides ENSA. His
enthusiasm for new routes in the mountains
of Ecuador is contagious and he enjoys sharing
it with others who have a similar love of
wild, remote places. Holds a WFR wilderness
medicine certificate. |
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Freddy
Tipan
Freddy
Tipan became the third Ecuadorian internationally
certified mountain guide IFMGA.
He has completed his guide's training at
ENSA l´ Ecole National de Ski et d´
Alpinisme de France. Freddy was born at
the foothills of Antisana volcano, since
his childhood he started hiking and climbing
around Antisana region. He
is currently the Director of the School
of Mountain Guides in Ecuador
During his
climbing career he has led many expeditions
in Ecuador and later to the southern Andes
of Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Freddy
has been climbing in Ecuador for more that
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Alejandro
Lazzati
Alejandro is a very talented mountaineer
and rock climber. He has extensive climbing
experience in all the mountains of Ecuador.
He is an instructor of the Association of
Guides ASEGUIM. In 2001 he led a successful
expedition to the highest mountain of Peru
and in 2008 was the leader of an american
expedition that succeeded on Aconcahua (the
highest peak of the Americas). He holds
a Wilderness Emergency Medical qualification
as a technician given by WMI of NOLS (Wilderness
Medicine Institute of NOLS) from the US.
He is the first Ecuadorian guide to become
fully IFMGA certified (www.ivbv.info).
Alejandro has a deep feeling for nature
and his passion for the mountains is truly
joyful. His attention to detail, sensitivity
to guest needs, and extensive knowledge
of the mountains and history of the Andes
of Ecuador is unrivalled. |
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Jose
Landazuri
Jose has been climbing in Ecuador and guiding
for more than 16 years with more than 200
ascents of Cotopaxi and around 50 of Chimborazo.
His hyperactive personality and his love
for the Ecuadorian mountains makes him one
of our most popular guides. He has completed
his training in the Oberland Section of
the DAV (German Alpine Club). Jose has done
sevaral dificult climbs in the European
Alps. He is one of the Instructors of our
School of Guides. Jose has been senior climbing
guide for many British expeditions which
have come to Ecuador during the last 10
years. We know his never-ceasing enthusiasm
and cheerful personality will always add
immeasurably to the enjoyment of the trips
he leads. His love for the mountains, his
capacity to share that with clients, and
his friendly rapport with all the people
along the trails, make him one of our best
known guides. Holds a WFR wilderness medicine
certificate. |
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Oswaldo
Freire
Oswaldo is a very experienced climber. He
has made many notable climbs, among them
the first traverse of all the summits of
El Altar, two expeditions to the South Face
of Aconcagua, the Eastern Face of Huayna
Potosi in Bolivia and a difficult route
up Peak Lenin. He has led many commercial
expeditions to the Andes of Bolivia, Peru
and Argentina.
"Ossy" as we call him, is well
informed about his country's culture, history,
and spectacular natural places, and loves
sharing his knowledge with our guests. His
spirit, enthusiasm, and knowledge extend
well beyond the borders of Ecuador.
Besides guiding he is running a unique restaurant
and lodge overlooking the city of Quito.
Take a look at www.rumilomalodge.com.
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Ramiro
Garrido
Ramiro Garrido is a former President of
the San Gabriel climbing club of Quito.
He has been mountaineering in Ecuador
since the age of 11, intensively climbed
almost all the mountains of Ecuador. During
the summer months July and August, he
has often spent time climbing in the southern
Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Among his notable
ascents he has climbed Aconcahua by the
Polish Glacier Route. He loves to share
with people his two main passions of life:
mountaineering and outdoor video filming.
He holds a WFR (Wilderness First Responder
certification) and he is an active member
of ASEGUIM.
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Sebastián
Carrasco
Sebastián
Carrasco, an Italian National resident
in Quito, has completed his studies at
the Thompson Rivers University of Canada.
He is a certified rock guide by the Canadian
Association of Mountain guides. Like most
of our guides his climbing experience
is in the southern Andes of South America.
In August 2007, he was the leader of the
first Ecuadorian ascent of East Chacraraju
(6001m) in Peru. Sebastian has done several
technical ascents in the Canadian rocky
mountains as well as in the European alps.
He has worked in the past in Argentina
monitoring avalanche conditions.
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Marco
Castillo
Marco is a keen runner and a qualified mountain
guide. Has closely work for the red cross
of Ecuador as part of their rescue team. During
the last 10 years has guided more that 200
ascents of Cotopaxi and no less that 40 of
Chimborazo. Happily married to Cecilia when
he is not climbing he is busy raising two
children. Marco is an ASEGUIM member.
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Henry Moya
An experienced high altitude mountaineer, Henry has been an instructor of the local Mountaineering Federation (EPAM). His extensive climbing background includes all of the mountains of Ecuador with some unusual routes, and several 6.000 meter peaks in the rest of South America including expeditions to the highest peaks of Peru and Bolivia. Henry has completed several courses of the National French School of Guides ENSA and is aspirant IFMGA certified since September 2008. His love for the Ecuadorian mountains and people, and his knowledge of the culture of Ecuador make him a good trip leader
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Javier
Mora
Javier has been climbing in Ecuador since
1999. A freelance outdoor photographer with
a university degree in business, he is a
member of our Association of Mountain Guides
and a very talented climber, who spends
part of the year leading expeditions in
Ecuador and Peru. One of his passions is
photography that has brought him to developed
his own web site where he shares some magic
moments of his profesion: www.javiermorateran.com
He is also a fluent German speaker. In addition
to being multilingual, he is extremely knowledgeable
about the flora, fauna, history, and customs
of the Andes. Holds a WFR wilderness medicine
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Daniel
Romagosa
Daniel is our head trekking guide. He combines
his job as a graphic designer with his interest
in nature. He currently leads most of our
treks and enthusiastically shares his open
personality with people of all ages, being
a naturalist with a deep appreciation and
extensive comprehension of Ecuadorian culture
as well. His passionate love of his country
and its people, and his knowledge of all
that is Ecuadorian make him a wonderful
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Pablo
Montalvo
His love and respect for his country is
conveyed with great enthusiasm. His knowledge
of Ecuadorian culture and history is prodigious,
combined with his love of the outdoors,
make him a great leader for this diverse
and fascinating country. Pablo is well versed
in the rich culture of Ecuador as well as
the classic trekking routes. His knowledge
of the country, its people, and traditions
will add immensely to your appreciation
of the trip, and he has a gift for instilling
confidence in every trekker. Pablo lived,
studied and worked in the United States
for 4 years. His ability to cross cultural
boundaries and forge relationships with
people from all over the world is his trademark. |
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Fabian
Freire
As a naturalist guide has explored and established
new hiking routes in the Ecuadorian central
Andes, cloud forests, visiting remote and
isolated native communities, settlements,
villages and highland remote Indian markets
Fabian has guided in the Ecuadorian upper
Amazon basin having visited Huao, Shuar,
Secoya, Siona, Cofàn and Quichua
tribes and territories.
During the last 10 years he has carried
out many acclimatization programs for mountaineers
wanting to climb the major peaks of Ecuador
For a few years he was working in Canada
as the Director of Food and Beverage of
Maitre d`Hotel. Fabian is a fluent English
speaker and has a midium level of French
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Pablo
Herrera
Pablo is our logistics manager. Before every
group of clients arrives he spends several
hours in front of his computer doing all
the logistic arrangements. He deals with
the organisation of all matters related
to planning menus, purchase of foods, and
camping facilities. He is a familiar and
friendly face in our camps that you will
always be glad to see after a long day of
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