CURRENT MISSION

After 2 years in Asia, mostly in Nepal’s high mountains, I’m on a new adventure:
I climb 100 peaks o Pakistan www.peaks-to-pakistan.com

ABOUT ME

Instead of writing a long text, I decided to upload some pictures that should give a good idea of what I really like doing and what I am interested in :)
A lot more and current updates on Instagram, visible also to non-Insta people: @juliantothewild (https://www.instagram.com/juliantothewild/ )

PHILOSOPHY

"Auf den Gipfeln wohnt der größte Optimismus: Der Glaube an sich selber."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I think couchsurfing should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Price. It connects individuals from across the globe and fosters intercultural understanding and friendships.
I lived almost 8 month in the houses of couchsurfers in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Panamá. I made so many amazing experiences and became good friends with some of the Couchsurfers. Whenever I couchsurfed at a place I have the feeling that I got a much deeper understanding and most of the times also a better experience than staying elsewhere. For me, traveling always includes couchsurfing.

Trying to host as many people as possible to give back what I experienced, but I’m mostly traveling myself 😅

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only the best! Since now the hosts have been very nice and I spent awesome times together. They allways showed the best parts of their city and I enjoy the contact with local people - so I am very happy that Couchsurfing makes those meetings possible!

Interests

* Outdoor sports: Hiking, mountaineering, climbing, cycling, kayaking, paragliding
* Music: I play the piano since I am 7 years old. Favourite composers: Giovanni Alevi, Debussy, Beethoven, Mozart, Ludovico Einaudi. I like going on festivals and dancing until the sun comes up again. I like music that combines various styles or recombines and interprets songs in new ways.
* People: I like to understand why people do what they do. I am interested in your motivations to (not) do certain things. I am interested how people achieve “flow” moments of perfect focus and well-being.
* Business: I like to start new things. My team and I grew FLIO into the most used airport app in the world. I founded a software company with a friend from uni early in 2020.
* Ecology: Renewable Energies (worked in renewables for some years; helped building the first wind-solar-hybrid park in Europe), cultivated meat (wrote my master thesis with Mosa Meat, the “inventors” of cultivated beef)
* Sleep Research: For many years I considered sleep to be the “wasted” life time. After reading a lot of books and papers about sleep, I am amazed of what amazing processes happen when we are unconscious (:

• animals
• walking
• bouldering
• piano
• mountaineering
• rock climbing
• handball
• ecology
• entrepreneurship
• languages
• hitchhiking
• mountains
• nature
• sleep
• climbing
• bicycle
• environmentalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Rock, Metal, Ska, Indie, Folk, Reggae, Pop, Electro, Rap, Jazz, Funk, classical music, any music played on the piano. Used to play all kinds of music in different bands.

I read a book every other week.

I don’t watch TV/netflix as it feels to me like wasting time.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I think I have an more than average exciting life, but one thing I will never forget is the attempt to climb Mount Manaslu (8,163m) in Nepal. The conditions were horrible and I didn’t even get to do a summit attempt, but by climbing, I managed to raise >16,000€ for school children in Nepal. Visiting the school and village after the climb was very special.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Monaco, Montenegro, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Hong Kong, Netherlands, United Kingdom

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