My name is María. I am from Barcelona and I live in the city of Barcelona.

I am 37 years old and for more than 17 I have spent all my free time climbing mountains. I started to get into this world when I realized that the city wasn't for me, that I needed to breathe fresh air and be in constant contact with nature, and if I could climb very high walls, even better. By the age of 20 I had already climbed several 3,000-metre peaks in the Pyrenees and had travelled to Africa in search of my first mountain over 4,000 metres. A couple of years ago I discovered ice climbing, and today I train my body and mind to be able to climb frozen waterfalls in the cold winters all over the world.

I love cold countries, like Canada, where I often travel to find the best ice in the world. In our country the cold is rare, so I combine my training with drytooling, a climbing discipline that has only recently arrived in my country.

Mixed climbing is my passion.

My passion is the mountains a child might draw, the solitary and sharp mountains. I have climbed Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, the Eiger, Elbrus, and I twice came close to the summit of Alpamayo, as well as other beautiful sharp mountains. I had the opportunity to join a charity expedition and to climb the Khumbu Icefall, reaching Camp 1 on the route to Everest. And I organized an adventure with minimal resources, without sherpas or outside help, to climb Ama Dablam. I will continue my search for those great, beautiful and sharp mountains of the world.