Pico Island · Mount Pico · Alps · Andes · Atlas
Built over time.
Not performance. Not content.
This is not an adventure project. Not content.
Not a challenge to complete.
It is an ongoing practice.
A way of orienting life around the mountain.
Its rhythms. Its demands.
Its refusal to negotiate with ego or urgency.
The mountain is not a backdrop.
It is the condition under which everything else is understood.
Long-term and deliberate.
Not peak-bagging. Not performance.
What matters is the return.
Without expectation. Moving with the terrain, not against it.
Consistency over intensity.
The summit, when it comes, is incidental.
Professional Mountain Guide · Pico Island
Born in Angola to an Italian mother and a Portuguese father, Matteo developed an early relationship with the mountains through time spent in the Italian Alps with his grandfather. At the same time, summers on Pico Island created a lasting connection with the Azores.
After studying Tourism, he moved permanently to Pico in 2014. In 2015, he founded Tripix Azores and began building his professional life around Mount Pico.
Based on Pico Island, Matteo has worked professionally on Mount Pico since 2015, across conditions and seasons. He has completed more than 1,060 climbs of Portugal's highest mountain and accumulated thousands of hours guiding on its terrain.
Experience is not accumulation. It is attention, responsibility, and the ability to read situations clearly.
His mountain experience extends beyond Pico to different environments and altitudes, including the Alps, the Atlas Mountains, the Andes and the Iberian Peninsula. Technical development has included ice climbing in Südtirol, rock climbing and high-altitude expeditions.
In 2015, Matteo founded Tripix Azores — a Pico Island-based company specialising in professionally guided Mount Pico climbs. Through Tripix, the team has guided more than 10,000 participants on the mountain. Matteo continues to lead the company while working actively as a professional mountain guide.
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The mountain sets the terms.
Everything else follows.
Base
Pico Island, Azores
Role
Professional Mountain Guide
Founder & CEO, Tripix Azores
Since
2015
Mountains
Pico · Alps · Andes
Atlas · Iberian
Founded
Tripix Azores (2015)