Gabriel Pinto

09/17/2026

09/14/2026

Has elimination been more important to you than accumulation? Michael Smoak

09/10/2026

This was absolutely the craziest trip I’ve ever been on in my life.

The question - “when is the last time you did something for the first time?” was answered pretty much every single day on this trip.

First time I:
✅ Traveled to Europe
✅ Experienced The Blue Mosque, Basilica Cistern, and The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul 🇹🇷
✅ Climbed a mountain via ferrata
✅ Sparred jujitsu with the best fighters in the world
✅ Summited the highest and most intense mountain in my life (one of the tallest in Dagestan)
✅ Saw and rode a camel
✅ Killed and ate a sheep (not pictured because I don’t know if social media would let me)
✅ Rode a horse
✅ Camped out in the mountains for a multiple days

Shoutout to Keyen Lage for such an epic experience and bringing together some of the greatest people out there.

*Picture #1 and #5 was in Istanbul before I went to Dagestan, Russia. Russia is currently a level 4 Do Not Travel Advisory country so you can’t fly their direct from most countries so I spend a day in Istanbul before*