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Jaime Vargas

Jaime

4.8

(57)

Mountain Guide

Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador

Certificates

ASEGUIM 

IFMGA 

Certified IFMGA - ASEGUIM Mountain Guide, National guide, Rescue Team Member GRA & Lawyer.

As passionate mountaineer and with almost 20 years of guiding experience, I worked with clients from all over the world. Each tour is a unique experience and I will pleased to guide you to the marvellous summits of Ecuador and South America. My journeys have allowed me to guide and summit several mountains in Peru, like Alpamayo, Chopicalqui & Tocllaraju amongst others and to experience some mountain climbing in the Alps of Austria and Italy.

I’m based in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador’s famous piece of heaven, where we run together with my Austrian girlfriend a small tour operator and a consulting office.

Continuous improvement and keeping up with the State of the Art is our mission:in 2017, I completed the IFMGA certification and, recently, in 2018, I received the National guide certification from the ministry of Tourism.

President of Baños Trail Running Club, I run every week with my team. My achievement of 2018 : Finishing 1st of my category for the 100km Ruco Ultra Trail.

I’m looking forward to exploring our beautiful mountains together with you.

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German, French, and English

Programs

 

Reviews with photos

Excellent guiding by Hugo. Experienced, safe and professional. Took me to the top of Cotopaxi. What more could you ask for. Highly recommended. 5
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What people are saying about Jaime

kathleen

Our guide was Marcial. He was incredible, and we truly felt so blessed to have him as our guide. He was fun, respectful, funny, patient, motivating and very caring. I would recommend him a million times to anyone. Although we did not make it tot he way too he was en encouraging through the whole process and still lifted our spirits.

Adam

Cristian Rivera was an amazing guide! I had a great time climbing Cayambe with him and would highly recommend him to anyone looking to climb Ecuadorian volcanos. I plan to book with him again when I come back in a few years.

Benoît

Fabian never explained how to use the material that we rent. So we discover at 5000 meter in a storm how to put ice crampon. We had ice pics but never knew what to do whit it. Zero explanation before the hike. And we told him it was the first time we do that kind of hike. We carried water , winter coat and all the gears recommended but never had time to use it. after 4 hours of hike whitout a drop of water my girlfriend had to stop. The guide was in a rush to leave in the morning and tell us that we don’t have time to loose. You should not put this guide whit less experimented person. He didn’t really care about us. Spending more time whit the orther guides that taking care of us. Not mentioning that every single time we had with him he was either talking to someone else or on his phone. He arrived 1h15 late on our first appointment having us lunch at 2pm and rushed us to have dinner at 5.

Martin

Sebastian was an amazing guide. Made the whole experience unique.

Javi

Good guide and he is able to adapt the climbing to the clients, very important


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