Michał Woroch is a traveller, photographer and motivational speaker. He has visited Mongolia, India, Spitsbergen, and driven from South America to Alaska in an off-road car. Currently, he is preparing for a trekking trip to the Himalayas. Michał suffers from spinal muscular atrophy and is a wheelchair user.

Wojtek Antonów: You have recently returned from Zakopane, where you tested an all-terrain vehicle, designed especially for your trek ‘Wheelchairtrip Himalayas Challenge 2020’. How did it go?

Michał Woroch: I went there with my heart in my throat. I have been thinking about this expedition for a long time, and I wasn’t sure if I would really be able to use this kind of vehicle. But after having spent all day out there, driving on the uneven terrain, hills and fields around Zakopane, I felt confident that the vehicle is reliable enough to make a trip possible like the one I’m planning! The vehicle opens up completely new possibilities of independent movement for disabled people in the mountainous terrain, making our plan actually feasible.

The vehicles we have been testing are prototypes. The machines we will take for the Himalayan trip will be based on them. The construction was designed by Bartosz Mrozek from Zakopane, who wants to use electric