Hans Rey made his name showcasing supreme bike handling skills in locations not usually associated with mountain biking. These days he's still making the most of those legendary skills, but is more focussed on finding new two-wheeled adventures around the world, partly to explore different cultures and landscapes but also to promote and meet up with people who have benefitted from his Wheels 4 Life charity.
His most recent trip took him to Guatemala City in Central America where he met up with Austrian photographer Stefan Voitl, Austrian trials rider Tom Oehler and local tour operator, Matt, from Oldtown Outfitters who suggested they go on a unique and remote hut-to-hut tour in the area's Highlands, with extreme high altitudes of 3000 meters.
Here's what Hans had to say about his exciting adventure….
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Austrian photographer Stefan Voitl approached me a few months ago and asked whether I would like to join him and fellow Austrian trials rider Tom Oehler on a high altitude bike adventure – we all met in Guatemala City with local tour operator, Matt, from Oldtown Outfitters. He had suggested a unique and remote hut-to-hut tour in the Highlands at an extreme high altitude of 3000 meters.
We had all brought full suspension mountain bikes, except Matt who was rocking his hardtail. During the first few days we rode locally around the picturesque and colonial cobblestoned city of Antigua, surrounded by several active, spewing and fuming volcanoes. We also got to ride the first bike park in Guatemala - El Zur. After a 45 minutes bumpy truck shuttle we were offloaded half way up the Volcan de Agua to embrace a 20km downhill ride through lush cloud-forest with loose, dusty volcanic soil.
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