Personal credentials
Xavi Llongueras Orriols (Terrassa, 1963). Actually living in Prullans.
UIAGM High Mountain Guide (EEAMB 1996-2006).
During several years he has been practising his two big passions, mountaineering and photography as hobbies. He actually is a High Mountain Guide and photographer in outdoor BTT races, mountaineering marathons or climbing competitions.
He has also been working as High Mountain Guide for NKBV (Alpine dutch team) since 1998 and is an Asociación Profesional Aragonesa de Guías de Montaña member.
After working 6 winters as a lifeguard pister in a catalan ski station, he spent a few seasons of the southern summer working as a High Mountain Guide for Azimut 360 and Chilemontaña, two agencies located in Chile, leading clients through the Patagonia and into America's highest, the Aconcagua.
Since 2005 he leads his own clients to the Cerro Plomo and the Aconcagua as a freelancer in its own agency. From September 2007 he is the CEO of the Companhia de Guies de Montanha agency, bound to Carros de Foc.
He has taken part in many expeditions to Andes in South America and Himalaya, Karakorum and Hindu Kush in Asia.
Within his trips you can count the second Himalaya's crossing in BTT in 1987; the ascent to the Ararat peak (5,165 meters) in Turkey in 1989, with the downhill from 4400 metres by practising BTT; the solo ascent of the Huayna Potosí in Bolivia or three ascents to Aconcagua's peak 6959m, Elbrus 5642m or Ararat 5137m, and others acting as a High Mountain Guide.
With his camera in his hands, he visited Vietnam, Brazil, Jordan, Egypt, India or Laos, among other countries in Europe and America.
