Passion, friendship, safety and a melting pot of different cultures!

The origin of this adventure started in the Caucasus mountains, where 4 passionated skiers from 2 very different cultures met during the first European Freeride Cup organized in Russia and became friends about 10 years ago.This was the beginning of a long story!

Since that time our dreams and ideas became a clear shape and we start to be a big family. But our inital ideas which drives all this project remain still the same: passion, friendship and safety but also a melting pot of different cultures!

Nikolay Veselovskiy and Vitaly Ilinykh

Nikolay Veselovskiy and Vitaly Ilinykh — are the shareholders of «Vertikalny Mir».

Since more than 20 years, they began to explore different areas of the ex-Soviet Union: Caucasus, Khibiny, Ural, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Baikal, Siberia, Kamchatka. During this time they explored thousands of kilometers for virgin powder runs in 1/6 part of our Planet!

These two passionate skiers have been the first Russians to organize and commercially run helicopter skiing in Russia

 

Bernd Schulke

«Bernie» lived in Chamonix, he was a personality in this small world of alpinists and skiers and known much further than only the limits of the valley he lived. He met Nikolay and Vitaly during a Freeride competition in the Caucasus which was the beginning of a long friendship but also of new projects — to establish and promote Heliskiing for European customers.

Bernie died in an avalanche on the south slopes of the Mt. Blanc area in April 2003.

 

 

 

Daniela Schmied

Daniela Schmied loves skiing, which she practiced in several disciplines at its high level and she loves the mountains around the Chamonix valley where she lives since many years.

Since those first meeting in Caucasus mountains, she dedicated quite some energy and time to help getting established and promoted Russian Heliskiing on the European market.