Last week we went in Port la Nouvele (south of France) for a training day. We sailed 4h23min. Here is the video of the day :

Entrainement PLN_ Avril2012 from Bering Aventure on Vimeo.

Next July, we have the crazy project to cross with windsurf gear the Bering Strait separating Alaska from Siberia.

In order to make the crossing safely, we need you, your support.

This is why we set up a fundraising via the website www.kisskissbankbank.com

You can find our donations page via the following link: http://5P1.r.mailjet.com/1QnQ3zFV/x8jCT/1E7Q5k/www.kisskissbankbank.com/profil/blog/bering-aventure

In return for your donations or you will leave with the counterparties of your choice.

We hope this summer to walk in the footsteps of Arnaud de Rosnay is the only one so far to have make this crossing in 1979.

If you want more information about our project, you can visit our website www.beringaventure.com

Thank you for your help.

The team Bering Adventure

This month, our partner Planchemag published a double page on our tests session in the Lake of Laffrey.

In January, Alain & Michel went to the Lac Laffrey in order to test the Wetsuit their partner NPX sent them few days ago.

You will find through this video the result of the tests session. Sorry but it’s in French Language.

Bering Aventure 2012 _ Session Lac de Lafrrey from Bering Aventure on Vimeo.

Bering Aventure 2012. Presentation du projet from Bering Aventure on Vimeo.

Click on the photo to view windsurf pictures gallery at Lake Laffrey, Tuesday, January 17th.

This day allowed us to test our new suits, gloves, boots, boards and sails which will be used for the crossing.

At 2011 Boat Show, while we were there searching potential partners, we have met Antoine Albeau, David Garrel and Alexandre Caizergues.

These three greats windsurfers and kite surfer are supporting us in this magnificent project.

It’s early December that everything is confirmed when we got home the JP Australia boards which we will use during the crossing.

Beginning of January arrived sails, masts, booms

Neil Pryde and part of the NPX Neoprene in Voreppe.

Equipped from head to feet, it was time to make a first test session for all new materials.

The appointment was given at Lake Laffrey, 900m above sea level.

Is it legitimate to live a passion that involves accepting a major risk?
In history and practice of extreme sports, we are constantly facing  disappearance drama,  accident and death.

One must distinguish the quest and its efforts ???. We are not looking for danger. We seek
alliance with nature forces and nature itself.

Nature is what we cannot control.

Nature is primarily this non-developed, unorganized, uncontrolled by man area .

It is an inexhaustible source of gross pleasure and oversized emotions.

Nature is sending in tune with our wild feelings, it is close to love.

We know how vulnerable we are when we sail on seas, tiny dots disappearing on the horizon. It’s a chance, it is a challenge. That’s a lot of humility and pride.

It is the pleasure of briefly transcend human condition to better understand it.

The right to risk, is now more than ever, an important claim. It must be preserved.

It is, like poetry, the last field of etiquette, or even excellence, taste of happiness, love of nature and life itself.

Through our adventures, we just accept nature within us.

We engage ourselves on a quest that apparently weakens life, but actually sharpens it.

« Most greatest satisfactions come at the cost of some pain»

Alain Gabet