In conversation with | Tobias Renggli

Beyond Limits: 35 countries, 35 summits, 100 % human powered

Tobias Renggli is 23, from Switzerland, and happiest outdoors – on foot, on the bike, in the mountains. At 16 he became Swiss mountain running champion. At 18 he cycled alone through all 44 countries of Europe, visiting every capital city and climbing every highest peak: seven months, an average of 180 kilometres and 2,000 metres of elevation gain per day, entirely unmotorized. In between he studied at ETH Zurich. In 2024 he climbed the highest points of all 26 Swiss cantons in just three weeks – the film was shown in 15 countries already.

Since April 2026 he has been on his biggest project so far. "Beyond Limits" takes him from Alaska to Patagonis over roughly two years: 40,000 kilometres through all 35 countries of North, Central and South America, only by bike, on foot and by sailing boat. In every country he climbs the highest mountain. It started in May 2026 with Denali (6,190 m), the coldest mountain in the world. Next come the rarely climbed Mount Logan in Canada, the volcanoes of Central America, 15 Caribbean islands by sailing boat, expeditions deep in the Amazon rainforest, and finally the almost 7,000-metre Andean peaks all the way down to Patagonia.