Hi everyone! My name is Andrey Botnev, and I’m the CEO of AIBERICA™.

A few years ago, on the slope of #13 at the Zell am See ski resort, I tried not even to catch up but at least to keep up with the German in the red ski jacket. But it was a complete fiasco for me. It felt like I was just standing, and the German was moving away into the “horizon.”

I had met him ten minutes earlier. The two of us had gone up together on the cable car. I don’t remember his name now, but he was 73 at the time.

He had lived all his life in a small Austrian town near the resort. And he started skiing before the resort opened. He said that now he is retired and he skis only when the weather is really nice (the weather that day was great), that his girlfriend (wife) is always grumbling when he goes to the mountains for a whole day and many other little things like the fact that for the entire season skipass for him costs 70 or 80 euros (I paid something like 300 for five days :))).

This “old man?” was then and remains now the ideal of a HAPPY man to me! His tanned face was always smiling, and he had this energy that could make people around him happy just by his mere presence!

For 10-15 minutes that we spent together on the elevator, he smiled, laughed, joked, told me how he lived, and it was so alive and natural that I remembered it for many years!