Leadership Expeditions Guide

Inés has been a guide at Vertical for the past 8 years. She works in leadership programs and expeditions in parallel with her research in Glaciology. With a Master’s degree obtained in France, she now works for the Laboratory of Spatial Geophysics and Oceanography (LEGOS) in Toulouse, working on a PhD thesis that aims to understand the recent behavior of Andean glaciers and their relationship with climate.

Inés has practiced mountaineering for the past 11 years developing high technical skills in alpinism, backcountry skiing, and big wall climbing. She has also been a national athlete of the mountain brand Marmot for the past 4 years. These skills have given her the ability to develop her own personal projects and participate in different mountain expeditions in the northern and central Andes, diverse Patagonian regions as Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Ice field, and also abroad in Siberia, The Alps, Tanzania, Kenya and Himalayas.

Meanwhile, living in Europe, she is focused on the Alps and the Northern Hemisphere where she has recently done many Alpine routes in the Mont Blanc Region, and two attempts of all-female expeditions to Mount Kenya in Tanzania, and Mount Logan in Canada. Some of her major accomplishments include the firsts ascents of Mount Aguilera, three other peaks in the Southern Ice Field, and the North Tower of Cochrane in Aysen.