About us

OUR HISTORY

Since the 1990’s

Pyrenees & More is the result of over 20 years of collaboration and friendship between Jeremy and David who first guided together in 1998 while working for one of the pioneer tour operators in soft adventure travel in Spain.

Not long after, Jeremy founded his own company in 2002, operating hiking trips throughout the Iberian Peninsula, attracting customers from around the globe.

Meanwhile, David kept busy guiding many Spanish and international clients for Jeremy and other travel agencies.

A shared love of mountains and the tour business kept them in touch over the years until the moment was right to launch Pyrenees & More…with the desire to take all their wealth of accumulated experience, knowledge and knowhow…and elevate it to a new level of excellence and synergy.

Happy customers

Our clients included many hundreds from USA’s iconic REI Adventures, for whom Jeremy created and operated their best selling Camino de Santiago as well as a Pyrenees & Costa Brava trip, until REI’s decision in early 2021 to stop operating internationally. As one of the lead guides for REI Adventure’s trips in Spain, David was a major contributor to that trip’s amazing success.

Over the years we’ve run trips for various international schools and universities as well as a wide range of other top-flight international agencies and mountain tour operators. We’ve also created memorable personalized adventure travel experiences for hundreds of private clients from around the world, including USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, and of course…. Spain!

Meet our team

Jeremy

Born in Venezuela, Jeremy is a world traveler, having lived in the UK, Philippines, Singapore, USA and Japan prior to moving to Spain in 1997. He has explored the length and breadth of the Iberian Peninsula, with a special interest in beautiful natural areas with historic towns and villages.

Nowadays he calls the magnificent Central Pyrenees his home, dividing his time between the Spanish and French sides of the range.

Formerly a professional translator & interpreter, Jeremy is a qualified Hiking Guide as well as being WFR certified. He has been designing and leading trips throughout the Iberian Peninsula since 1999. His passions include “tapas”, rock climbing, aikido and gardening.

David

David is a biologist, international UIMLA certified mountain guide as well as a paragliding and ski instructor, who has been leading outdoor adventure and cultural experience trips throughout Spain since the 1990’s.

Known for his irrepressible and sociable personality, positive energy and unfailing sense of humor, his passion for climbing, skiing and paragliding have taken him on journeys far and wide throughout Europe, the Himalaya and the Americas. He has authored numerous articles in Spanish outdoor and climbing magazines.

He loves history and gastronomy and is an increasingly successful watercolor artist under his colormountainart label. He lives both in the Sierra de Guadarrama near Madrid and the beautiful Benasque valley in the Central Pyrenees.

Alberto

Not only is Alberto an expert rock climber and alpinist, he is also a GAME/FEDME certified High Mountain Guide, paragliding instructor and ski instructor.

He lives in the Benasque valley of the Pyrenees, home to the greatest concentration of the highest summits in the range. He is known throughout Spain as a "guru" in the world of paragliding, being a pioneer of the sport and taking it to new levels in search of adventure and challenge.

In addition to having climbed several 8000 meter mountains in the Himalayas, he has flown his paraglider from takeoff points at over 8000 meters in the Himalayas and Karakorum. He has guided, climbed and flown all over Europe, Asia, North Africa, the Andes and Patagonia.

Jorge

Jorge is a native of Asturias, from the port city of Gijón. A certified mountain guide with a degree in Marine Science, he’s been leading outdoor adventure trips throughout the Iberian Peninsula since 2006.

His many passions include history and cooking – he’s a trained pastry chef, so if there's a picnic to be prepared on his trips, you're in luck!

In the off-season for guiding, he works in the high-risk profession of seafood harvesting – specializing in the local delicacy of gooseneck barnacles – on the wave-battered coastline of Asturias in northern Spain. Recently he got his small boat captain's license and now also operates a small fishing vessel for catching specialist items for high-end restaurants.

Beatriz

Beatriz was born and raised in Madrid. One of the first women in Spain to become a certified mountain guide and member of the Union of International Mountain Leader Associations (UIMLA), Beatriz founded her own guiding company in 2006.

Beatriz has a relentless desire to explore the world and has led trips for internationally prestigious clients and companies in such diverse environments as the inhospitable Tierra de Fuego (Patagonia), the mystical Boreal Lapland, the unforgiving Sahara desert, the glorious Alps, the beautiful Pyrenees, the breathtaking Lofoten Islands (Norway), wild Iceland or on magnificent Kilimanjaro.

Nowadays, Beatriz divides her time between Tuscany and her hometown of Madrid.

Javi

Javi grew up in Madrid and studied Agricultural Engineering, viticulture and enology. A certified UIMLA mountain guide he’s a great companion in the outdoors, with a seemingly inexhaustible wealth of stories to tell.

Notably, Javi's extensive experience in all phases of grape-growing and wine production make him the ideal person to order wine at dinner!

His passion for travel, mountaineering and skiing has led to a career combining guiding with continuing work as a professional wine maker, where he works as a consultant to important international wineries and produces excellent wine from old vines in a little known (but increasingly so) area in the mountains west of Madunder his 4 Monos label.

Camilo

Camilo is from Arriondas, the capital of kayaking in Asturias, in the foothills of the spectacular Picos de Europa mountains.

A Spanish TDM2 mountain guide with a degree in Accounting, he’s been leading trips throughout northern Spain since college and is a Camino specialist, where his skill as a great storyteller keeps his guests entertained!

He combines guiding with work as host of a local TV series on outdoor adventure exploration in Asturias, leading him to become a well-known personality throughout the region – so don’t be surprised when people come up and greet him effusively while on tour with you!

A craftsman at heart, he also earns an income as a skilled woodworker in the off-season.

Jaime

Jaime has been guiding since 2010. After studying Economics Business Administration and Marketing he worked for multinational companies, a valuable experience that has made him an expert at solving any problems that crop up during trips or activities.

However, heeding his inner voice to seek his true calling, he eventually quit the corporate lifestyle to live his two biggest passions: adventure sports & mountains. He has climbed, trekked and travelled around Spain, Europe and South America.

He also loves wildlife, slow good food and electronic music. In addition to Spanish TDM2 mountain guide certification, Jaime is also an international UIMLA certified guide, combing guiding with work for a major international bike manufacturer where his multiple language skills and corporate experience make him an invaluable asset.

Lisi

Born in Terrassa, near Barcelona, Lisi has spent the past 20 years living in small towns in various Pyrenean valleys enabling her to acquire a broad knowledge of her favorite natural environment – the Pyrenees mountains. She is a professional mountain leader, rock climbing guide and snowboard instructor.

Her long career in climbing has taken her to well-known rock faces around the world from Yosemite Valley in California to Wadi Rum in Jordan and many places in Europe.

In her spare time she enjoys spending time in the outdoors and exploring with her dog, bathing in river pools and sharing experiences in nature with her friends. Lisi is also a published artist, specializing in mountain- related drawings.