Leadership Expeditions Guide

Gabriel Becker currently serves as Expeditions & Operations Director at Vertical, a Chilean Outdoor Education and Leadership Development Organization founded in 1992. For more than 25 years, he has been responsible for designing and operating leadership expeditions, field courses, and experiential learning programs for universities, corporations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations throughout Chile and internationally.

As part of Vertical’s leadership expeditions, Gabriel oversees expedition planning, logistics, risk management, guide training, and field operations. He works closely with participants, faculty, and leadership teams to create experiences that strengthen resilience, collaboration, adaptability, and decision-making under uncertainty. Throughout his career, he has supported programs for organizations including Wharton, MIT, Bayes Business School, UNC Charlotte, Anglo American, Teck, LATAM Airlines, Copec, Kimberly-Clark, CONAF, Amigos de los Parques, and Alerce 3000.

A mountaineer since the age of 13 and a professional mountain guide, Gabriel has participated in and led expeditions across the Himalayas, Antarctica, Patagonia, and many of the world’s most remote mountain regions. He has successfully summited Mount Everest three times and completed the first Chilean ascent of Mount Lhotse, the fourth-highest mountain in the world.

Gabriel has also guided successful ascents of the highest peaks on each of the seven continents, including Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson Massif, Carstensz Pyramid, and Everest. His expedition experience includes scientific and exploratory projects throughout the Southern Patagonia Ice Field and the Antarctic Peninsula.

Between 2005 and 2010, Gabriel worked extensively in Antarctica as Logistics Manager and Expedition Guide for Antarctica XXI Air-Cruises, leading operations and supporting expeditions in one of the most remote regions on Earth.

In addition to his mountaineering career, Gabriel is the creator and developer of the first and longest Via Ferrata in Patagonia, located on Mount Douglas Point in Vodudahue, within Pumalín Douglas Tompkins National Park. He also trained as a commercial pilot and remains active in aviation and aerial imaging through his company Steadyviews Drones.

Gabriel holds a Wilderness First Responder (WFR) certification from the Wilderness Medicine Institute and has maintained this qualification since 2004.