Hello! My name is Gabe and I live in New Jersey. I'm currently 19 years old. I love to watch movies, travel, play FIFA, and hang out with my friends. I'm currently on a gap year. I spent 3 months in Nepal and 4 months in Argentina. In Nepal I spent my time volunteering at a school in a small village, hiking in the Everest and Annapurna Regions, and traveling around with people I met. I love to rock climb and mountaineer. I went to school in Switzerland in 2014 and fell in love with the sport. I have climbed all over the United States, the Swiss Alps, and the Argentinian Andes. I've climbed the Matterhorn in Zermatt, Switzerland, and I got up to 6500m on Aconcagua before a storm forced me to turn around. Next year I will attend Dartmouth College (an Ivy League University in New Hampshire).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have always wanted to travel around different countries and meet local people.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Pink Floyd
Colony House
James Taylor
Simon & Garfunkel
The Eagles
The Beatles
The Kinks
Chance the Rapper

Movies:
Superbad
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Young Frankenstein

Books:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Into Thin Air
Fathers and Sons
Hamlet
The Shining
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I was 17, I travelled to Switzerland with my friend to climb the Matterhorn. I paid for the entire trip myself.

I sacrificed a chicken in the Nepalese Jungle

I got frostbite while climbing in a storm on Aconcagua (the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States