In 2025, we launched the very first Alpine Edge program: The Founders’ Edition. This wasn’t just a pilot, it was the moment Alpine Edge came to life. The program was built around my vision and created to challenge both body and mind, combining mountaineering activities with professional coaching and guided reflection.
Our professional mountain guides and executive coaches brought essential expertise. They guided the program and kept everything flowing smoothly. At times, they also stepped into the program as participants themselves, experiencing it from the inside. This gave us valuable insights into how the physical challenges, reflection sessions, and coaching actually reinforced one another.
Over the course of five days, we moved through alpine terrain: hiking, practicing yoga, completing rescue exercises, and even doing a via ferrata. Alongside these physical challenges, participants explored their personal strengths, limiting beliefs, and recurring patterns. From day one, a safe environment emerged where openness, vulnerability, and honesty felt natural. This created space for deep reflection and meaningful conversations.
The impact was immediate and tangible. Stepping away from daily routines gave participants the space to see what really mattered, make deliberate choices, and focus their time and energy more intentionally. Many discovered they could achieve more by doing less and that trusting themselves and others helped them act with greater impact, focus and integrity.
Often, the insight was already there. The program simply gave them the clarity and courage to act on it.
The Founders’ Edition gave us clarity too. It sharpened our judgment and showed us what Alpine Edge truly stands for: finding clarity in uncertainty, taking responsibility, making sound decisions, acting with integrity, and having the courage to move forward together. That experience continues to shape every program we design.
