Àlex Simón i Casanovas
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Àlex Simon i Casanovas | |
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| Born | 8 November 1960 Barcelona, Catalonia |
| Occupation | Polar Guide and sport events organisation |
| Website | www |
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 Dolomites, as well as in the United States, Brazil, Guatemala, Indonesia, Australia and Antarctica, and crossed by bicycle sections of the Simpson Desert (Australia) and Atacama Desert (Chile).
Sport events organisation
[edit]Since 2012, Simon i Casanovas has organized the Rovaniemi 150 Arctic Winter Race. Rovaniemi150 (150 km [93 mi]) 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 (1,000 km [620 mi]) in Finnish Lapland in winter.
Since 2015, Rovaniemi150 have two more different challenges: Rovaniemi66 (66 km [41 mi]) and Rovaniemi300 (300 km [190 mi]).
Work in Antarctica
[edit]Simon i Casanovas 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.
Climbs
[edit]- First ascent of Mount Bowles (839 m [2,753 ft]), Livingston Island on 5 January 2003.[1]
- First ascent of Burdick East Peak (735 m [2,411 ft]), Livingston Island on 20 November 2003.
Honour
[edit]Casanovas Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Àlex Simon i Casanovas.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Since 2007, he lives in Finland.
Publications
[edit]- Article "Bajo el sol del desierto". Solo Bici nº7. Dec. 1991.
- Article "La motoneige et moi-une expérience en Antarctique". Motoneige Quebec. Dec 2009.
- Article "Sueños gélidos, sacos para frio extremo". Desnivel. Dec 2002.
- Àlex S. Casanovas. [The Snowmobile Bible: Progressive safety over dangerous terrain]. Lulu Inc., 2008. 112 pp. ISBN 978-1-4092-2363-4