page_title: Arturo Montero
section_title: Exploration period: mountains and caves
hierarchical_section_title: Arturo Montero / Biography / Exploration period: mountains and caves
caption_attribution_description: Español: Iztaccíhuatl y Popocatépetl muestran sus glaciares desde el campamento arqueológico, en la cima de la Iztaccíhuatl en 1985. Izquierda Arturo Montero, derecha Stanislaw Iwaniszewski.
context_page_description: Ismael Arturo Montero García is considered a prominent mountaineer and speleologist due to his archaeological researches in high mountains and caves of Mesoamerica. In 2009, he led the expedition which discovered the world's highest place in the Earth's Equator path. Recently, he has concentrated his efforts on archaeoastronomy, proposing orientation models that have been published in many different academic media. He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Level 1.
context_section_description: Arturo Montero's career began in 1985 with an excavation in the most elevated archaeological site in North America, the Iztaccihuatl volcano at 5,260 meters above sea level. Since then, he has been involved in High Mountain and speleology archaeological-historic research, and also in exploration of rough terrain, diving and river navigation. He is considered by the “Wielka Encyklopedia Gór o Alpinizmu” a great mountaineer in history in order to recognize his input to the mountaineering knowledge in the world.
  He has led expeditions to the most important tops and chasm in Mexico, the Amazon, the Andes, the Polynesian, the Alps, Cuba, the Cascade Range, the Atacama Desert and the Galapagos Islands. Due to his research and documentation experience, he has been professor-researcher in the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, he also has worked as a teacher at Universidad del Tepeyac, Universidad del Valle de México, Universidad Iberoamericana and Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Furthermore, he was invited as a teacher by the Universidad Nacional de Salta, in Argentina. He was vice president of the Unión Mexicana de Agrupaciones Espeleológicas (2002-2004). In 2007, he was  co-director of the Subaquatic Archaeological Project in the Nevado de Toluca volcano. Now he is adjudicating to Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Moreover, he is an honorary member of the Comité Asesor para la Conservación de Materiales Arqueológicos de Santuarios Incaicos de Altura in Argentina, and member force of the CONACYT assessors’ registration.
  Researching, documenting, and cultural and natural heritage preserving activities have taken him to be a member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística; the Asociación Mexicana de Mastozoología; the Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; the National Cave Rescue Commission of the National Speleological Society; the Society for American Archaeology; and the Comité Asesor para la Conservación de Materiales Arqueológicos de Santuarios Incaicos de Altura. He is, also a member of the Consejo Asesor Académico del Parque Nacional Izta-Popo, Zoquiapan.
caption: Iztaccihuatl and Popocatepetl show their glaciers, from the archaeological camp, on the top of Iztaccihuatl in 1985. Left Arturo Montero, right Stanislaw Iwaniszewski.
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