Pablo
Ruiz Seco

Pablo comes from Reinosa in Cantabria, a small powder corner of northern Spain, and he has been on skis since he was 14. He has skied just about every kind of snow there is, from backcountry powder hunting and tree skiing to big alpine descents and the occasional snowpark session. These days his heart belongs to the steep and deep.

As a UIAGM / IFMGA mountain guide, Pablo works in the Alps through winter and summer, using Chamonix as his base. In winter that means ski touring and freeride across the Mont Blanc massif and beyond, and he has skied and guided across Italy, Austria, France, the UK and Slovenia. Back home he leads ski tours on the 3,000-metre peaks of the Pyrenees and in Picos de Europa, and runs glacier travel and crevasse self-rescue courses in Alto Campoo, skills every ski tourer heading to the Alps should have.

With Snowbusters, Pablo guides our ski touring course, the Chamonix to Zermatt Haute Route, the Silvretta ski tour and freeride touring in Lyngen and Lofoten in Norway.

Away from skiing, Pablo is a seasoned alpinist and a former member of the Spanish National Alpinism Team, with ascents in the Himalaya, Patagonia, Yosemite and the Alps. He has summited Cervino, the Aiguille Verte and the Aiguille d'Argentière, climbed the Comici route on the Cima Grande di Lavaredo in the Dolomites and the east face of Naranjo de Bulnes in Picos de Europa, and together with fellow Snowbusters guide Roberto Muñoz he climbed Eternal Flame on the Nameless Tower in Pakistan's Trango Towers. That mountaineering depth is what makes him so solid on glaciated ski tours and ski mountaineering objectives.