10°30'38.0"N 123°56'45.2"E — Climbing hasn’t been of great importance to me lately. For the past year, I have been mostly focused on getting to the world stage of adventure racing; contributing all of my time to team training. My climbing is, right now, put on the backburner. I miss climbing hard a whole…

Light At The End — March 5, 2022. Up to this day, several areas are still left without power. To provide light was another goal we had laid out as we started this journey of helping those in need. Literally provide some sort of illumination, preferably solar, so people could go about their night time…

Light, water, and comfort — If you haven’t read Part 2. Click here We had returned in January 2022 to bring some more goods: solar lanterns, water filters, and hammocks. The coverage for this operation was wider than the previous. From Maasin to Tomas Oppus.

If you haven’t read part 1. Link here On December 25, 2021, the rock climbers of Tacloban decided to help out with the relief efforts in the south We had summed up whatever we could, cash, food, water, and bring these to the victims

On December 17, 2021 a strong typhoon swept across the Visayan Islands and Northern Mindanao, Philippines Typhoon Rai, locally named Odette, quickly reached super typhoon status shortly after entering the Philippine Area of Responsibility I am all too familiar of the impacts of a super typhoon; having lived in this…

The day after the feast of the Sto. Niño, I brought Bragie and JV to see Tancaan Point and Maasin City. On the side, this was an excuse to catch up on my open water swim training

In an effort to not get burnt out of my training for the Adventure Race World Series, I try to mix a lot of fun into it, such as tagging friends along for a weekend of supposed training The weekend of November 27, I brought my friends to Malitbog —…

This past weekend my surf friends and I decided to head up to the small town of Leyte to try out a cogon-covered trail we saw from a friend’s (JV) Instagram story For safety reasons, Covid and security-wise, we wanted to be as separated from people as much as possible…