Àlex Simón i Casanovas
| Àlex Simon i Casanovas | |
|---|---|
| Born |
8 November 1960 Barcelona, Catalonia |
| Occupation | Polar Guide and sport events organisation |
| Website | www.polarguide-logistics.com |
Àlex Simon i Casanovas (born 1960 in Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona) is a Catalonian mountain guide, climbing teacher, outdoor instructor and logistic. He has climbed in the Pyrenees, Alps and the Dolomite, as well as in U.S., Brazil, Guatemala, Indonesia, Australia and Antarctica, and crossed by bicycle sections of the Simpson Desert (Australia) and Atacama Desert (Chile).
Àlex Simon was the mountain guides team leader at the Spanish Antarctic base of Juan Carlos I in 2001–06, carrying out extensive field work on Hurd Peninsula, Huron Glacier area, Byers Peninsula, and Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Since 2007 he lives in Finland. Currently he organizes sports events and a different kind of polar traverses: ski, husky dogs, fatbike and snowmobile. Agreeing to these activities, he participated as a logistician and guide on the Professor Multanovskiy ship during the 2009–2010 Antarctic summer and, as well in Antarctica, on the Ocean Nova ship during the 2010–2011.
Since 2012 Àlex is organizing the Rovaniemi 150 Arctic Winter Race www.rovaniemi150.com. Rovaniemi150 (150 km) is the first, and still the only one (2017) polar winter ultramarathon in Europe which combines three categories: fatbike, ski and run.
Since 2014 he also organize the Lapland Extreme Challenge www.laplandextremechallenge.com, 1000 kilometers in Finnish Lapland in winter.
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