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| Since its creation, in 1989, our team at AZIMUT 360 has been dedicated 365 days of the year to sharing their passion for Patagonia. Everyone has their own dream summit to reach and AZIMUT 360's goal is to help our guests reach their own goals and realize their own dreams, whatever they may be. With AZIMUT 360 you can count on a high level partner, a professional team at your service to discover CHILE off the beaten track. A Frenchman and mountaineer extraordinaire, Philippe Reuter
has arms like pipe wrenches, and holds the Guinness world record for
climbing up and skiing down the world's ten highest volcanoes. A multi-faceted
athlete, Philippe has over 25 years experience climbing and skiing
in the European Alps and Chilean Andes. In addition to climbing Mt.
Everest, he has climbed to over 30 summits at 20,000' and higher in
South America.As an experienced guide and program director for adventure travel outfitters based in Chile, he has led backcountry ski excursions, overland trips, trekking, mountaineering and climbing expeditions throughout Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. He is founding director of adventure travel outfitter Azimut360 based in Santiago and owner and operator of Terra Luna Lodge on Lago General Carrera in southern Patagonia, Chile. A Wisconsin native, Mark Kniprath is the consummate outdoorsman
with 15 years and over 3,000 hours of flying experience in Alaska and
Chilean Patagonia. He is considered the best in the business, specializing
in remote fly-fishing excursions. In 1984, he became an adventure travel
professional guiding adventure excursions and managing wilderness lodges.
Mark has the unique ability to navigate high mountain peaks, glacial
lakes, narrow fiords, ice fields, glaciers and rivers. As for experience
in the outdoors, he's just about done just about everything including
spending two winters alone on a remote island in Prince William Sound,
Alaska, ""just to see if I could survive like the mountain men did 200
years ago. Piece of cake."
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