Regardless of how hard it was, I always believed and kept moving forward with adamant resolve, stronger than the challenge I was facing. This journey received its deserving exposure in the media locally and globally. The videos that I have filmed while on my journey have been watched by hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world. Since then, I have returned to Israel and begun writing a book which chronicles my journey. I searched for a new challenge and found it.For three years I have been training for a powerful and historic journey: crossing North America in a kayak and breaking the Guinness world record for the longest journey in a kayak. This journey is expected to be the first of its kind in North America: The first person to paddle from Alaska to San Diego is expected to break a Guinness world record.
This is a roughly 5,000 kilometer maritime journey in which I will paddle along the Western coast of North America through formidable icebergs, cliffs that break into the sea, astonishing beaches, endless nature and central cities like Juneau (capital of Alaska), Port Williams, Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
This journey is, for me, first and foremost a human one, in which man both struggles and connects with the wilderness and its many challenges, the wonderful people on the sides of the paths, and the eternal war on the physical and mental aspects of the mission.
What is survival- yet this time, from a different perspective. From a different angle of the mountain.
In between training sessions for this journey, I left for a bicycle journey in the North of India to cross the highest path in the world- a path whose height peaks at a record 5,600 meters above sea level.
After finishing the ride, I set out to climb the Himalaya mountain range, to reach the highest peak in the Ladakh range, 6,500 meters high. The climbing lasted for three days, at the end of which we reached the mountain peak (09/08).
We began our descent. A few minutes later, I tripped and rolled through roughly 500 meters along the mountain. I lost consciousness and was saved by my climbing companions who called for help.
I was evacuated by a helicopter of the Indian military to the nearby city of Leh. The evacuation lasted for 6 hours in harsh weather conditions and limited access for landing. The route and the high altitude made it difficult to land.
After being hospitalized in Leh for a day, I was transferred by another plane to a hospital in Delhi in a comatose state which I only awoke from three weeks later in Israel. As part of the rehabilitation program that persists even outside the confines of the hospital, I constructed a lecture (which I gave on the TEDxTel Aviv stage) which tells of the current journey. The lecture explores a journey that caught me off-hand, a journey which I did not choose to set out for, a journey that can happen to anyone.
I'm not used to leaving for a journey which I did not pack for. I learned with my own flesh and bones that well-known cliché, "life is an unplanned journey." Dealing with this struggle, however, is not at all different from the challenges which I chose on my own; look fear straight in the eye, believe, and never give up.

And most importantly- dream, even when your eyes are closed.