Quick Facts
Biography
Maximo Kausch (Argentina, March 1981) is the current world record holder with the most 6000 metre peaks climbed. He’s a professional mountaineer and expedition leader. As a teenager Maximo moved to Brazil where he lived for 8 years and later for other 10 years in the United Kingdom.
He later specialised in climbing high altitude mountains and travelled to over 25 countries and mountain ranges such as Himalayas, Karakoram, Alps, Pamir and Andes.
As expedition leader Maximo led dozens of expeditions all over the Andes and 11 expeditions to 8000 metre peaks in Nepal, Tibet and Pakistan. He's a trained rescuer and took part in many high altitude rescues in many mountain ranges. He has knowledge in high altitude medicine and wrote on subjects ranging from medicine, cartography or even climatology.
During his most notable project - Andes' all 6000m peaks - he aims to climb all the 104 x 6000 metre peaks in the Andes. He maps all peaks using GPS units and publishes all his work for free in the hope that more climbers might attempt the project. The whole project Andes 6k+ (name given by himself) hasn’t been tried before by other mountaineers.
Awards
- World Record: He recently became the world record holder with the most 6000 metre peaks and so far (Jan 2017) reached the summit of 83 absolute 6000 mountains (not counting secondary peaks).
Guinness certificade
Work
- Andes-Specialists.com - owner and expedition leader
- GentedeMontanha.com - owner and expedition leader
- SummitClimb.com - expedition leader
Projects
- Andes 6000+ 83 peaks climbed by the date (Jan 2017) and 11 secondary 6000m peaks in the Andes alone. His total number of high altitude climbed mountains is unknown and is probably near to 180. The project started in 2012.
- 30 x 6000ers in 2 months Maximo climbed 30 peaks in 60 days in late 2012. This great achievement was done alone and approaching the mountains on a 250cc motorbike. He covered 7000 km from the Atacama all the way to the Central Andes.
- Bolivia’s all 6000ers Maximo has concluded the project in August 2014
- Andes unclimbed 5000ers He has successfully climbed 5 unclimbed 5000 peaks in the Andes including the highest of them all, Mt Parofes 5845m
- Argentina’s all 6000ers He hopes to finish the total of 43 peaks in 2017 as he has a total of 02 peaks left: Cerro Alto 6130m and Pabellón 6060m
- Chile’s all 6000ers Maximo hopes to climb his last Chilean 6000m peak (total of 39) in October 2017: Cerro Alto 6130m