Eñaut Izagirre

Originally from Elgoibar, near the Basque coast, Eñaut grew up in the Rocky Mountains of the Basque Country and the Pyrenees, where his fascination for the landscape and the magnificent mountains led him to study Geography at the University of the Basque Country. He then continued his studies in Punta Arenas in Chilean Patagonia, where he lived from 2013 to 2016 to complete a master's degree in Glaciology and work as a researcher at the Universidad de Magallanes. He completed his master's thesis on the neoglacial advances of the Marinelli glacier in the Cordillera Darwin and participated in numerous sailing, kayaking, and climbing expeditions in this remote mountain range and the Patagonian channels and fjords.

In 2015, Eñaut received support from the National Geographic Society to conduct research in the southernmost unknown icefield in South America. He and the rest of the Incognita Patagonia team returned from Tierra del Fuego with an enhanced understanding of the region's glacial history and an appreciation for adventure "in terra incognita’ having traversed the Cloue Icefield and climbed two previously unclimbed peaks.

Today he is back in the Pyrenees, working at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology while completing his PhD at the University of the Basque Country. His project focuses on the evolution of the Cordillera Darwin Icefield (Tierra del Fuego) and he is involved in numerous other glacier projects in Peru, Svalbard and regularly in the Pyrenees.