Great power = great responsibility

Today is the International Volunteer Day and a very special day also for me, because Fortis, the world leader in Swiss watch making, chose me to be their Brand Ambassador. That forges our partnership and we can shape the future of vertical and aerial rescue by communicating the new concepts vertical rescue and vertical reference on super high rise buildings.

Fortis has over 100 year history and is an inventor of the very first alarm chronograph and has supported many world records, like the highest helicopter flight above mount Everest in 2002 and the highest record with a jet fighter in 1995.

For my brand Ivan Kristoff®, today is history, but with Fortis I promises you we will make history….

“I appreciate this honor more as a credit for the innovative concepts that I have to do for the rope access and aviation industry globally in the future, but also as an amazing recognition for Bulgaria, for my partners and friends”

As a teenager I found new areas and the Big gallery at the Big Balabanova Cave in Bulgaria. That was a very special emotion and experience as a young explorer and shaped my passion to explore new exciting domains that involve action. As a student at the University of Toronto, I stepped again when no man has stepped before, on the exterior of the top of the World’s Tallest Structure in 2003. Later I found the very first of its kind Highrise Emergency Aerial Response Team. Now I developed the concept for a new type of rescue and with Fortis watch on my hand, I plan to introduce it to the world.

I grew up with the excitement of watching my homeland to be the sixth nation in the world to send a two cosmonauts to space and later watched the Fortis involvement and support of space expeditions and world records in the aviation.

Hello fans of extreme sports. This year we initiated an experimental project – The Fortis Experience. With fans and owners of Fortis watches, we flew over the Mountains in Bulgaria and we will invite you for the next flights as guests. During these events, whether it is flying with hot air balloons or hanging on the top of high vertical rocks, you are invited to participate in new ways for training of Air and Ground SAR (Search and Rescue) personnel.

Helicopter operations are quite expensive. Especially with external human hoist system and specialized training for aerial rescue. That is why Ivan Kristoff have initiated a specialized program for Heli Rope Access and a Charity.ForBulgaria with Fortis Swiss Watches that will subsidize the project

The Fortis Experience with Scuba Diving

Our next filming will be with an Underwater and Underground Scuba Diving Exploration team and showcase how they provide a multidisciplinary training for rope access at extreme heights and depths.

With a young scuba diver Simeon Penev, we had an exciting experience on his yacht and underwater with the Forits Diver watch and Fortis Flieger Pro Chronograph (with the stainless steel bracelet). The purpose of the trip among the Halkidiki Islands was to check out some of the new scuba gear and Fortis Swiss watches, so that we are fully prepared for an exercise in the freezing water of the Seven Rila Lakes. Mony, as I nicknamed Simeon, showed a courage and stamina that I have not seen even in experienced mountain climbers who have climbed the highest peaks on Earth.

Simeon Penev is a 15 year old student in London, who dreams to study in Cambridge.

Това е часовника, който пристигна в България с една от култовите световни марки куриери, още преди Коледните празници, но както е нормално – българския им партньор тук, чак днес евентуално ще ми го докара, въпреки, че всички документации по митници, такси и други са платени и предоставени още миналата година…

 

Затова нека другите българи, като отидат навън поне да се научат как се работи експедитивно…