Leadership Expeditions Guide

Maria Paz has been mountaineering since her college years, where she graduated as a musicologist from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is a certified Wilderness First Responder (WFR). She has been on mountaineering expeditions in South America, Africa, the Himalayas and Europe, summiting many mountains and volcanoes such as Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro and Huascarán. She has not only trekked a lot in Southern Chile and Argentina but has also trekked all over the world. Maria Paz has been working with Vertical since its beginning. She has also been a guide on several Wharton Leadership Expeditions, namely Antarctica, Patagonia Navarino, Andes and San Pedro. She is currently working in America Solidaria helping to alleviate children’s poverty in Latin America. She loves nature, specially plants and flowers. She is also a proud mom of three daughters.