Simón Elías
Protagonist in the Panel Talk about mountain guides
Simon Elias was born on October 9, 1975 in La Rioja. He grew up in the mountains since his parents worked in Hermitage of Lomos de Orio, inhabited highest point of the province under the peaks of Onion. Mountain professionally dedicated since 1995, when he won the gold ax award for his ascension wall 2000 meters North of Meru in the Himalayas Gharwald also knows Yosemite and Patagonia. Currently he works as a mountain guide independent in the massifs of the peninsula, especially in the Pyrenees and the Alps. He also teaches at the School mountain of Benasque. He educates Sports technicians in high mountain, and since 2005, leads the national team of young climbers, the group of high-performance mountaineering federation of Spanish mountain sports and climbing.
Simon arrives at Bilbao Mendi Film Festival to participate in and Panel Talk about mountain guides that will take place in Sala BBK on December 15, at 7:30pm.
