EXPEDITION MEMBERS
OSCAR SOLSONA MARTÍNEZ
CONQUERED SUMMITS
Born in Barcelona in 1978, I have known Andreu for a few years now, I knew him as a roommate, in a shared flat with Jordi for 3 years.
My time in sports has always been sporadic, short periods of time and many types of sports (taekwondo, soccer, chess, swimming, capoeira…)
My passion for the mountains came to me late, it was not until I finished my studies that I began to go on a trip to the mountains of Catalonia.
But my definitive step was after a knee injury in a ski accident in 2016. From that moment on, I set myself the goal of recovering completely to achieve the first important challenge with Andreu’s company, the GR-20 of Córcega. A long and demanding journey, with high mountain passes, where we suffered and enjoyed the route very much in the company of Daria.
From this challenge, I have been Andreu’s partner in various summits of the project as well as great routes around the world such as the great journey through the Reunion Island.
A project that has allowed me to travel to many countries in the world with different cultures, where I have been able to meet and enjoy many peaks, each one a unique experience where I have met people with the same passion and overcome increasingly important challenges such as Kilimanjaro.
I hope I can continue accompanying you in more summits and enjoy together new challenges within this wonderful Top Summits of the World project.
Health and mountains!!
ÀLEX QUIROGA GUIMERA
CONQUERED SUMMITS
By way of introduction, I consider myself a person with a competitive spirit and a strong connection to self-improvement, who is stimulated by challenges as well as new experiences outside of one’s comfort zone.
Chance wanted me to meet the head of the expedition (Andreu) as a result of a series of nightlife outings in the Barcelona area, where I was fortunate to meet a group of people who, to this day, are part of the best group of friends you can have. 
. With them I have experienced hilarious situations that push me to follow them to the highest points, and months far away, on the planet.
In this sense, in addition to the encouragement that I already project it by itself, I joined the “Top Summits” project precisely because of the challenge that, for me, we have posed based on previous experiences to the expeditions:
- Camino de Santiago
- Backcountry Highlands in Scotland
- Ascent to the peak of Palas. (Lo Portalet, Aragon)
Since I was 10 years old, sport has been a fundamental piece, if not the axis of my life, being the sports practiced the following:
- Basketball
- Dumbbells
- Boxing
- Archery
- Others: Swimming, futsal, tennis, taekwondo, cycling.
Some things I like: reading, beer, music.
Things I don’t like: discos, crowds, reggeton.
JORDI DUQUE GONZÁLEZ
CONQUERED SUMMITS
Born in Igualada in 1982. I met Andreu and I don’t even remember him. They are one of those friends that you have known for so long that you do not remember the first time you saw them, but does it matter?
We had already met in other times and more “partying” places, but where we really had the opportunity to get to know each other more intensely was when life brought us together with another participatory member of the Top Summits (Oscar) to share a flat in Barcelona for 3 years.
A time that despite all the personal changes I experienced I remember as one of the most beautiful of my life and of course this is thanks to Andreu and Oscar.
I have always considered myself a very restless person, especially internally, where I cannot stop wondering what we are doing here and if we are making the most of the time we are living in with dignity.
This makes me have many concerns and hobbies and I try not to abandon myself to monotony.
I don’t have enough space in this section to describe all the good things that accompanying Andreu in this crazy project brings me, but I will try to summarize them: sharing time with good friends, traveling and seeing new places, playing sports, improving myself, participating in a great project, generating quality memories, creating space for me as an individual person that will make me a better partner and father later, sharing experiences, disconnecting from everyday life, and above all having done something that adds to life in general.
I wish Andreu the best in this great project, I don’t know if he will be able to complete it 100%, but I am sure that he will reach the maximum that his body and mind give him. I will accompany him whenever I can. Thanks Andreu for creating this opportunity for everyone.
BERNAT TORT BISBAL
CONQUERED SUMMITS
From Tous, as the protagonist of the project, we have known each other since kindergarten, where we began to be linked to sport by hitting the ball, more or less unfortunately, in the Cérvola Blanca courtyard. After a successful second position in school games, we went on to play in CF Igualada as a teenager, to end up coinciding again in our beloved UE Tous with a mythical promotion to Second Regional. As there is more variety in the world of sports, Andreu turns to foot races, and I do more towards two wheels.
He is passionate about cycling, especially on the road, but he cannot say no to his love of hiking, especially in the mountains. That is why, coinciding with a summer vacation in my second home, Andorra, I accompanied him precisely with Mireia and Oriol, also a friend from my youth, to make the roof of the Principality, the Comapedrosa, for me the first roof of the Top Summits, but we hope that not the last.
Firm step, and fits very high. And good luck in this innovative, original and encouraging project.
JORDI GIRONA
CONQUERED SUMMITS
The constant contact with nature and rural environments is what opened the doors to hiking for me and this to mountaineering and mountaineering.
I am Jordi Girona, trained as an industrial technical engineer, born in 1979 and resident in the Selva del Camp (Baix Camp) and when I was very little, my parents took me and my brother to the mountains: the Pyrenees, Pre-Pyrenees, Els Ports or the Apujarras were common places where we camped, visited lakes, towns and abandoned hermitages or collected mushrooms. For many years of my childhood, I was a regular attendee of the recreation and camps that were organized in my town, these all had a hiking aspect as a canonical basis. Contact with nature, then, was daily and habitual, therefore, and without any doubt, this has become a key fact in my life.
During a somewhat hectic and somewhat turbulent puberty and adolescence, I was away from the mountains and nature for about 5 or 6 years, and finally a tragic event made me return. With the hand of my older brother, at the age of 22 I crowned the roof of Catalonia: the Pica. That mountain that does not leave anyone who steps on it indifferent. Since then there has been no pause and with some ups and downs, my contact with the mountains has been constant.
The mountains themselves have given me some of the most rewarding experiences of my life, but they have also brought me new hobbies such as cycling, wildlife photography and ornithology, while at the same time making me meet new friends.
We met Andreu during the preparations for the ascent of Kilimanjaro, which we did satisfactorily. He told me about his spectacular life project: TOP SUMMITS OF THE WORLD. Having been impressed by the magnitude of the project, I decided to accompany him on some of these summits, the ones I have always wanted to do and now two have been achieved (Kilimanjaro and Moldoveanu) and I have some more already scheduled.
No one knows the summits we will do together, but I hope there are many, because mountaineering is not just any hobby, sometimes I am not sure it is even a hobby, it is philosophy, it is perseverance, it is passion and intrinsically it is environmentalism and love for nature and wild spaces and as free as possible from human manipulations, in short, it is everything that any human being can do much better.
At a time in my life when I was looking for answers, the mountain gave them to me and they were so simple that I would never have found them anywhere else. The answers were: contemplate the world, admire it and enjoy it but do so with the respect it deserves, as if it were a part of you.
