Posts by Alon Vainer

Sep’ 2019 What a trip! After every BAM trip we say ”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…

What can you do in 103 hours? Apparently a lot… Fly from Atlanta to Santiago, Chile (1,706 ft) at 10 pm. Drive from Santiago(1,706 ft)  to Portillo (9,450 ft) and ski up to 10,860 ft , than have a Pisco at the Hotel.  Than drive to Los Andes(2,687 ft), and  after a shower driving  to have have dinner at  La Ruca restaurant in the…

, April 22-28, 2018 April 23, 9:00 am . Altitude 9,500ft.  *I just climbed with skins on my skis 1,500 ft, from the Argentiere glacier. I asked myself   _*”What am I doing here?”_*. **I felt weak, tired-and +*I am not+* used to feel like this. It was hard to catch my breath.*Francis, my guide-looks…

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 ,…

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 “touring mode”, remove the skins and started skiing down.  _And so I completed skiing in all the seven continent_s. How and when did it…

Lofoten ,Norway – it’s all about location 68 degrees north  in the Arctic Circle. This trip was suppose 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 first.  So I l searched…

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…