Speed Expeditions 2023

Chicago

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00:16My name is Benedikt Böhm and I'm a speed mountaineer.

00:21All the speed projects I'm doing are human powered and sometimes the bike is a great

00:27support because I make a lot of distance very fast.

00:32When I was a kid I had a strong relationship with my bike.

00:36I was going out anywhere with a bike and I think it was my ticket to freedom.

00:45However as a speed mountaineer I wouldn't say that cycling is an easy part for me because

00:49I never got used to sit on a bike for a long time.

01:00What's going on?

01:02Better than the Viking.

01:04The Viking killed me.

01:05Especially the last 1,000 meters.

01:08But really, there's the road with all the trucks, hardcore.

01:16And then I really thought I'm not going to make it up.

01:21It's really good to have no bike.

01:37I can't believe it.

01:42I can't believe it.

01:49So it took me a little bit less than 14 and a half hours to the top.

01:56I have to say it was really, really, really tough.

02:01I have to say it was really tough.

02:31Let's go.

03:00I have to say it was really tough for me, but you don't think it's the only thing it might

03:14I think this project was very special because it had two elements which were differentiating

03:20from any of the projects that I did before.

03:23It was all about the diversity of Nepal, first of all going to the jungle, so at the very

03:28south border of Nepal, together with the WWF, the one with the panther bear, where I'm

03:33an ambassador.

03:34I was agreeing with them that I have a look at one of the nature resorts, where we were

03:40looking at not only the protected animals, but also at the initiatives they are doing

03:45there.

03:45And then travel all the way to the Dipathian border, where we wanted to climb Himal-Himlung,

03:52a 7,000-meter peak in record time.

03:54This was our target, and all this together with Paka Sherpa, he's a Nepalese pro climber,

04:00he's an international certified mountain guide, and he's also a brand new Dynavet athlete.

04:07It's really amazing what kind of contrast you can have within a couple of kilometers, more

04:23less.

04:24Becoming a WWF ambassador was a big thing for me, because it's not a sprint, it's not

04:29something short term, it's not something which I just do and then that's over for me.

04:33It's something which I want to do for the rest of my life.

04:37We will take it up to the summit, no?

04:39Sure.

04:40Somehow felt inside of me I want to concentrate on one certain organization, action, and form

04:47a long-term partnership.

04:48That's how I am.

04:49Also in business, that's how I am in general, also in friendship.

04:52So having that said that the WWF is so diverse and has so many things and so many opportunities

04:57in worldwide initiatives.

04:59I look a little bit crazy, huh?

05:01Sorry.

05:02I had a bike, a little bike accident on the mountain training, but the doctor said I can

05:07fly.

05:08So I took the flight.

05:09So thank you very much for welcoming me here and all the friends.

05:13We are really looking forward to support the WWF and I think the most...

05:18One thing is clear.

05:18We are today 8 billion people on this planet.

05:21There will be more pressure on this planet, even more than there is already today.

05:25And I think to protect ourselves from ourselves is probably most of the efficient ways to

05:31keep our biodiversity.

05:33And if you had, for example, more marine resorts, the fish population could grow in a much more

05:37efficient way.

05:38And that's the same for, in the end, for these nature resorts or for the national park

05:42we've seen in Chitwan, where the big target is how do we keep that biodiversity, but also

05:50keep the humans next to each other.

05:51So the pictures have been incredible because you can really imagine there is this massive

05:57zoo.

05:59But right next to that national park, to the zoo, there are living more than 60,000 people

06:04at the border or in that zoo more or less.

06:07So it's really about how do we get the balance between protecting the nature and keeping humans

06:13happy as well.

06:14Good to see you.

06:15Hello.

06:17What I really learned while visiting the national park together with WWF was that you have to

06:23win the humans if you want to protect nature.

06:26...to inspire other people that how wildlife and humanity can...

06:31how can we build a paternities for all these people living there, that they make a living,

06:36that we improve their lives, that they don't have the motivation to get in conflict with

06:41the animals.

06:42The dung of cow and buffalo.

06:45And everyday morning they put it over here.

06:48Okay.

06:49And mix some water.

06:51Yeah.

06:52And they slur it and go from this hole.

06:57Where it goes?

06:58There is the one digester tank.

07:02There is the magic coming out.

07:04I guess.

07:05It comes out, everything in the tube.

07:07And you can cook.

07:08You can cook with your own pool.

07:11So the problem around here, you have around 300 household.

07:16And in most of the area, they have a problem with the lepers.

07:18So to mitigate that, we have been using different aspects.

07:23As you can see the coral.

07:24This is called the coral.

07:25Especially for the livestock.

07:28They are using over there as well.

07:30So it's more a livestock problem.

07:31Well, yeah.

07:32So because the leopard, you didn't take away the lifestyle.

07:35How big is the leopard?

07:38Big size.

07:39Yeah?

07:40Yeah.

07:45Here, over there, you see a big fence going through.

07:47And this is really where the national park starts again.

07:49It's a lot of different islands.

07:50This is the fence to prevent the big animals, you know, maybe the big five to come in

07:55and to go here into these fish farming, these fish archicultures.

07:58Where local people have solutions to not go out into the wilderness.

08:03Where there's animal-human conflict.

08:05And there's a lot of cool things we saw now in the past day and also today.

08:09Hiwan, welcome to you.

08:11Yeah.

08:12I'm most impressed by the people.

08:14And you meet people who've been attacked by wildlife maybe 20 years ago by a bear.

08:19And they still are champions for wildlife.

08:22And there is this large tolerance for living with wildlife and this willingness to coexist

08:27with it and saying, okay, we live in the space of nature.

08:30And globally, we need to realize that we need the nature for a safe and healthy life.

08:34But we need to be clear that right now we need sort of ambitious conservation like here,

08:38but we need more of it.

08:40But we also need to transform the whole way how we produce and how we consume.

08:44And that affects individual people.

08:47How we can choose what we buy.

08:48We can choose how we behave, what we eat.

08:50But it also affects entire systems.

08:53So if you're concerned, it's important that you speak to people who make the larger decisions.

08:57In the economy, in politics.

08:59So that they prioritize nature more.

09:02We are the reason for the species crisis, for the biodiversity crisis.

09:06It's very clear.

09:07Science says humans are the reason.

09:08So because we're doing it, we also can stop doing it.

09:15Local people that they understand actually with a life tag.

09:18It has a value for the entire area, for the entire environment.

09:21It makes it attractive.

09:22It's a, it's a, yeah, it's a, it's a gift.

09:24It's a diamond.

09:25It's a tourism attraction.

09:26I think these species are not only the property of Nepal.

09:32It's the property of earth.

09:35That's why everyone should be focused to preserve it.

09:40The illegal wildlife trade has a volume, yearly volume between 7 and 20 billion euro.

09:46So it's a huge business, which makes it very difficult to work with.

09:50And what we're trying in WWF is to work along the entire illegal value chain.

09:54So working against the poaching, working against the smuggling and working against the demand.

09:59But it's very hard to work against organized crime.

10:01But to be fair, not everything is organized crime.

10:04Local poaching may not be that organized.

10:13That's what I see.

10:14I mean, this needs money.

10:16And this was also a part which motivated me to create Helping Band.

10:21It's about a lot of small contributions, no matter how small they are,

10:25even if they're only five euros, make a big contribution.

10:28And I thought about, hey, so a bracelet could be a nice result of that.

10:32It could be a sign of linking people together, of uniting them and showing that you care.

10:38I think that's in the end it.

10:40A bracelet costs five euro, and Helping Band is donating exclusively to the WWF with regards to their profits.

10:52Namaste.

10:56Namaste.

10:58Namaste.

11:12Namaste.

11:13Namaste.

11:18Namaste.

11:19Namaste.

11:22Namaste.

11:24Namaste.

11:25Namaste.

11:26Namaste.

11:27Namaste.

11:28Namaste.

11:29Namaste.

11:32Namaste.

11:33Namaste.

11:34Namaste.

11:36Namaste.

11:37Namaste.

11:41Namaste.

11:43Namaste.

11:44Yes, you got it amazing. No, it feels much better when it's out because the whole face was so under

11:50pressure

11:57Got it. Yeah

12:01Yeah, buddy, dude, you're on. Yes, finish

12:08They need to buddy

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