Posts by Alon Vainer

Merriam Webster dictionary definition of adventure *1 * a : an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks* * b : the encountering of risks 2 : _an exciting or remarkable experience _ 7:45 am, May 16. We are getting on a sled drawn by a snowmobile and riding on the sea ice in between…

I have been to Patagonia a few times in the past, but I always heard about Torres del Paine in Southern Chile , with the iconic towers. Located at the end of the world in the stunning Chilean Patagonia, Torres del Paine National Park, named a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO and the 8th Natural Wonder,…

-Kashmir Skiing 2023 It’s a sentence that my friend Lou always says when we start some exotic trip. For me this usually sounded funny, but this time -while driving in the Kasmir valley and passing military check point after check point and the sights around me look like what Pakistan or Afghanistan appear in a…

Lofoten, Norway – it’s all about location 68 degrees north in the Arctic Circle. This trip was supposed to take place in 2020. At that time, we (the BAM group) were due to go to Italy for a “chasing the snow†ski trip. But Covid had different plans. Italy was the first country affected. So…

1 pm . Feb 26 2022,  Tizi n ‘Likemt  mountain ,  altitude 10,229 ft.- location : Atlas Mountains -Morocco, North Africa . I change the  bindings on my Alpine Touring skis to “downhill  ski mode† from â€œtouring  mode”, remove the skins and started skiing down.  And so I completed skiing in all the seven continent_s. How and…

How did we get to go to Russia? By knowing someone  who know someone…Francis, one of our mountain guides knew Marco Gaiani, who is a French guide from Chamonix that  partially owns  Heli Ski Russia, the company that organized all those trips.Our Italian guide Alberto accompanied us in all those trips.  Kamachatka  April 2019Along with me, the participants of this…

August 2021 Whitney-looks daunting but the reality is different Garret and I climbed it , accompanied by 2 very experienced mountaineers .Todd Offenbacher and Abe Greenspan. One to one ratio on the rock climbing part makes it faster and more efficient. Whitney is the highest mountain in the lower 48 , at 14,505 feet. We…

This was my 2 second summer trip to Bariloche , on top of 3 winter trips there,and on top of another summer trip in central Patagonia ( El Chlaten ) and a spring trip to  Tierra del Fuego  in southern Patagonia.So this implies something… We went 4 couples .Lori and I , Abby and Rob ,…

Sep’ 2019 What a trip! After every BAM trip we say â€How can we top it?†This time will be actually hard to top it, having climbed quite high… We started 7, than 6, than 4-but it  was always a blast.  We have been in 3 countries, and have under our belt now three 4,000 m peaks -and…