Àlex Simon i Casanovas (born 1960 in Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona) is a Catalonianmountain guide, climbing teacher, outdoor instructor and logistic. He has climbed in the Pyrenees, Alps and the Dolomites, as well as in the United States, Brazil, Guatemala, Indonesia, Australia and Antarctica, and crossed by bicycle sections of the Simpson Desert (Australia) and Atacama Desert (Chile).
Since 2012, Simon I Casanovas has organized the Rovaniemi 150 Arctic Winter Race. Rovaniemi150 (150 km [93 mi]) is the first, and still the only one (2017) polar winter ultramarathon in Europe which combines three categories: fatbike, ski and run.
Since 2014, he also organize the Lapland Extreme Challenge (1,000 km [620 mi]) in Finnish Lapland in winter.
Since 2015, Rovaniemi150 have two more different challenges: Rovaniemi66 (66 km [41 mi]) and Rovaniemi300 (300 km [190 mi]).
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