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Mónica and Nuno love to hike and since 2005 they have been doing it regularly, starting with different tracks across Portugal and deciding in 2012 to embark on a two-year backpacking adventure, "walking through" all the countries of South America, such as Monte Roraima in Venezuela, the Lost City in Colombia, the Galapagos in Ecuador, the White Mountain Range and Machu Picchu in Peru, Salar Uyuni in Bolivia, the various Andean Cordillera Parks between Chile and Argentina, such as Torres del Paine and Glaciers. In 2014 they return to Pico Island where they seek to create and live in an environmentally sustainable space, in harmony with Nature, which they love to explore, especially the climb to the highest point of Portugal, where they will be pleased to guide you in a different experience. Daniel has discover his passion for hiking and climbing mountains when he moved from Lisbon to the Azores back in 2009, when he climbed Pico mountain for the first time. In 2016 he decided to quit his old jobs has a developer and music teacher to volunteer in communities and sustainable projects around South America for more than 2 years. During this period he did a lot of trekking and climbing in several Natural Parks and mountains al over the continent like Roraima (Venezuela), Chapada Diamantina, Aparados da Serra (Brazil), Machu Picchu (Perú), Salar Uyuni (Bolivia), San Pedro de Atacama desert, Torres del Paine, Vale de Cochamó (Chile), Ushuaia, Peninsula Valdez, El Bolsón, Bariloche, El Chaltén (Argentina), Tayrona (Colombia) and more. He came back to Pico island in 2019 to start a sustainable and ecological project choosing to go back to be a music teacher and to became a mountain guide joining atiPICO team and provide you an atypical experience climbing the highest point of Portugal.