Antonio Cortés

Antonio Cortes. Chemical Engineer, Professor of Physics and Chemistry in CUM, Oxford College and UNAM for 37 years. He began as a mountaineer in the Mountaineering Association of the UNAM. Pioneer of Mexican expeditions to the Himalaya and Karakorum mountains in Pakistan, from 1980 to 1996. As a runner, he has participated in 142 marathons to date; His personal record is 3 hours 6 minutes in the marathons of Houston and San Antonio, Texas. For the number of marathons he has ran, he has been a...See more

Antonio Cortes. Chemical Engineer, Professor of Physics and Chemistry in CUM, Oxford College and UNAM for 37 years. He began as a mountaineer in the Mountaineering Association of the UNAM. Pioneer of Mexican expeditions to the Himalaya and Karakorum mountains in Pakistan, from 1980 to 1996. As a runner, he has participated in 142 marathons to date; His personal record is 3 hours 6 minutes in the marathons of Houston and San Antonio, Texas. For the number of marathons he has ran, he has been a recipient of the Hemerodromos Trophy and the Boscar Trophy, the Nuevo Leon State Runners' Association and the Tlalpan Forest Runners' Association, respectively. He is a columnist for the Runners Club magazine, since 2009. See less