De Sus was founded by a community of friends, Andrei, Alex, Nicu and George, who share the passion of living in the mountains: guides, sportsmen, adventurers, amateur or professional researchers, all aiming to know better and also to share the know-how of living freely in Romania’s mountains with anyone else.
Our main focus is on rock climbing and off piste skiing but we also bike our way around and always search for new passages by “random trekking” and scrambling in this such familiar yet immensily wild landscape that our Carpathians prove to be.
Also, one of the highlights of exploring our mountains is the everpresent encounters we make on the way, be it wildlife and its ubiquitos traces, or the vigorous presence of the people of the mountains in their natural home.
We can be your guides on organised endeavours, provide you with roadbooks, or make suggestions for selfguided tours of our country.
Our services are entirely custom made, so feel free to contact us.
Nicolae Durnac
Born on the 12th of March 1983 in Campulung Moldovenesc, currently living in Gura Humorului, Suceava County.
From the 1st of May 2003 to present, member of Suceava County Mountain Rescue Service. National Tourist Guide and Ski and Climbing Instructor since 2006.Graduated at Geography and Geology Faculty of Iasi University in 2006. UIAGM Guide and paramedic level 1 since 2018.
Nicolae enjoys sport climbing and offpiste skiing the most, but also trekking, mountaineering and mountainbiking. Just like all the other membres of DeSus, he is also a devoted mushroom forager. He is defined by curiosity and perfectionism and also by a relentless quest for new ways of looking at things, be it mountains or people.
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Alexandru Olteanu
Born in Bicaz, Neamt County on the 15th of June 2000, currently living in Brasov, Transylvania.
Graduated highschool in 2019, member of AGMR (Association of Mountain Guides of Romania) since April 2022 and ski instructor since December 2021. Currently preparing to go to the Faculty of Medicine at Bucharest Unversity.
His strongest passions are climbing and skiing and he enjoys them because they make him feel healthy. As these sports are complex outdoors activities, involving both physical and mental strength, they keep him grounded and balanced.
His involvement in extreme sports since childhood made him start skiing thinking that it is the best replacement for inline skating during winter. He learned how to ski and progress came fast considering his mindset to push his limits. Later he discovered the poetic part in ski touring in which making his own path and doing turns in fresh powder snow is a way for him to unwind.
The desire to share the joy of skiing and climbing in a safe environment made him join AGMR (Mountain Guides Association of Romania). Thanks to his drive and involvement he became an instructor for the beginner mountain guides before his graduation. This made him realise how important it is to maintain strong communication skills amongst a team when being a leader and to stay calm and aware in dangerous situations.
George Bouros
George Bouros was born on the 9th of February 1988 in Focsani. He graduated from Gheorghe Tattarascu Arts Highschool in Focsani in 2005 and The Faculty of Geography of the Bucharest University in 2009.
George Bouroș became a tourist guide in 2014 and specializes in wildlife observation and being a nature interpreter. He is fluent in English, German and French.
Currently he collaborates with ACDB (Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity), based in Vrancea County, in the Eastern Carpathians of Romania.
George is a biogeographer, with a PHD degree in biology and carying out research and conservation projects on various subjects like natural protected areas, environmental awareness, geoinformatics (GIS), the predators’ ecology in particular and the study of mammals in general, rescue and rehabilitation of wild species. Since 2013 he is a member of the Internation Union for the Conservation of Nature(IUCN), the Otter Specialist Group, and since 2019 he is a National Geographic Explorer.
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Andrei Nuțu-Manea
Born in Piatra-Neamt on the 5th of October 1979, in the Eastern Carpathians of Romania.
Andrei was a member of Neamt County Mountain Rescue Team between 1996 and 2000.
National Tourist Guide since 2002, he graduated from the Law School at Bucharest University in 2003.
He has been a sport climbing coach since 2008 and a Mountain Guide since 2014.
Andrei’s biggest interest lies in developing rock climbing first ascents, an activity to which he is profoundly dedicated since the end of 1990’s.
The second most important for him comes the offpiste skiing, a passion that has constantly grown in the last ten years, especially since teaming with and learning a lot from Nicolae Durnac, also part of De Sus.
Trekking and MTB are filling the rest of the picture, while wandering through uncharted forest, peaks and valleys, quite often in search of mushrooms, is a constant thread in his everyday life.