Why we're doing this
This is not a camp.
It's an adventure you take with a group of 15 kids your age.
How it started
When we were seventeen, we spent two weeks in Guatemala and two weeks in Colombia. Over that time we hiked three volcanoes, traveled with locals, and had some of the best Shabbosim of our lives.
Somewhere in there we looked at each other and knew we'd be doing this for a long time. It didn't feel like much of a choice.
Since then
Thank God, we've had the chance to make good on that promise. Between the two of us, we've since spent summers across Europe and winters in Banff, trekked Morocco and Colombia, and stood on top of Kilimanjaro.
Some of the closest friends we have, we met on these trips. There's a kind of friendship that only gets made through shared adventure: the kind that's seen what you look like after a four-hour hike, and knows how to get you to finish it.
What we believe
Our mission is to spread this message. We believe in something so simple, yet it seems so forgotten: if you want to grow, you have to put yourself in new environments. Ones that challenge you, and show you there's more to life than you thought. Sometimes it takes standing on top of a mountain to remember Who made it.
We believe a great way to do that is through travel. It sounds like something we've all heard before: "As a young person, you need to travel." That's not our message.
Our message is"As a young person, you need adventure."
We always knew we'd do this every year for the rest of our lives. What we didn't expect was how many guys our age were hungry for the same thing. So this summer, we decided to bring others along for the ride.
Mendel & Avi
