We are brothers from the diminutive mountains of the Czech Republic, in the heart of Europe. As identical twins, we grew up in a highly competitive environment, literally from the womb. In our youth, all it took was a moment’s hesitation, and one ate the food off the other’s plate or took the best seat.
When one set a record of thirty in a primary school pull-up competition, the other wrung out thirty-one. There was always someone to compete with and something to improve on.
Such an environment shapes, sometimes even deforms a person in childhood and adolescence. Over the years, open minds and clear thinking have transformed competition into partnership and understanding, leaving us with a (hopefully) healthy level of competitiveness, drive and motivation for years of adventure to come.
We don’t compete with anyone in the mountains
As fathers, husbands and senior corporate executives, we approach the mountains with humility and no ambition to compare ourselves to anyone else.
The ultimate challenge for us is to produce the maximum possible sporting performance we can and to safely recognize the limits of our current capabilities. And whenever we come close to the edge, we try to learn from those situations. For us, it’s not about climbing the world’s hardest routes. It’s about having the best time with the right people.
Long-term consistency in training is the key
As the time we have available usually allows us to favour shorter intensive trips to the mountains, we have adapted our year-round training regime accordingly to focus on maintaining a higher level of overall physical fitness and endurance with an emphasis on specific training according to the current season and our particular climbing goals.
Long-term consistency in our approach allows us to plan operatively and set off to the mountains for projects that would otherwise require lengthy preparation and allows us to join with various elite athletes for our endeavours.
Dismanteam – Some of our references so far
- Alps, Dolomites, Hight Tatras – technical rock, ice and mixed climbing in short intensive trips
- Other mountains and rocks around the world (Jordan, Namibia, Kyrgyzstan, Peru, Georgia and many other countries…) – multi-day intensive climbing trips across the globe
- Gasherbrum II (8035m, Pakistan) – summiting without bottled oxygen and support in 9 days after reaching BC
- Denali (6190 m, Alaska) – summiting in 5 days after reaching BC
- Elbrus (5642 m, Russia) – 4 days from the Czech Republic to the summit and back to the Czech Republic
- Aconcagua (6961 m, Argentina) – summiting in 4 days after reaching the Vacas Valley BC
- Damavánd (5671 m, Iran) – summiting in 4 days after arrival to Iran, descending on skis
For us it's not about climbing the world's hardest routes. It's about having the best time with the right people.