Cyril Delafosse-Guiramand
Co-Founder, CEOCyril doesn't fit stereotypes. He has heard all his life that he is a “Frog” or to explain his unconventional attitude: “that’s because he is french”. “Throw it back to the caricature!” he would say. But the truth is, born french outside of France, he grew up mostly abroad and by the time he was 18 he had lived in almost 10 countries and had no intention to settle. Now in his early 40ies he has trouble filling out the police clearance form as he cant remember the chronology of all the places he lived in. Negative to Positive: he now speaks fluently 4 languages. Business school was his saviour! He’s been in Marketing and Adventure ever since.
By the time he met Pavel in 2008, he had learnt to fly airplanes, sail boats and undertaken long distance walking expeditions totalling more than 30,000km (notably Siberia to Laos, black sea to baltic sea, or across the ‘Stans). As an inquisitive mind, he loves history and has a strong interest in geopolitics. The deep connection he has to nature combined with the ‘back to basics’ attitude, lead him to formalise a specific approach to survival. It is based on technics learnt during light weight expeditions (thanks to specific local survival knowhow and mistake made!). He shares this knowledge in outdoors survival and resilience training and has been a technical advisor on movie productions.
He knows very well what he is talking about when it comes to isolation and its management. And obviously he could not keep secret the importance of experiencing solitude to live better.
He owns No Limit Journeys, a worldwide adventure travel agency, and implements most of the extreme stuff portfolio of Solitaree. Cyril looks after Oceania and the Pacific.
Pavel Ageychenko
Co-founder, CMOWhen talking about Russia, stereotypes remain strong and fear of the nation high! Well, then you should meet Pavel. Pavel is the antinomy of those perilous ideas. Pavel is why we want you to discover Russia: young, smart, multilingual, creative, adventurous, modern and free! He is a product of soviet education, grown in perestroika and developed under the ‘new order’: born in Irkutsk in the early 80ies, Siberia, he studied foreign languages, with international exchanges, did the usual conscription stint in the army and deployed his adventure entrepreneurial wings never to close them. With over 13 years of running his Inbound adventure Siberian travel agency, BaikalNature, his knowledge of the this continent is un-paralleled. Saying that he has criss-crossed Eastern Siberia is wrong: he knowns every single corners of it - and though he has been exposed to many dangers, his excellent risk mitigation skill has kept him alive all along.
And this is the point, he is the best of our two worlds: very Russian in that there never is a problem or an adventure that can not be undertaken; he can live with fermented milk and Dosharak, can weigh 70kg wet and resist the harshest of colds, has an indestructible Cartesian spirit but at the same time can appreciate the Western mind, speaks better French than a French, remains very clear minded, understands what customers need. He is a spirit boiling with life, energy and ideas, coupled with a great sense of things and a deep photographic eye.
Based now in Saint-Petersburg, Pavel looks after the European Market, our marketing and the back office systems. He continues to be the Siberia adventure specialist for us.
After the war in Ukraine started in 2022, Pavel moved to Georgia where he runs a Georgia Travel Company.
