Companies & Teams
Team Events, Leadership Trips, Keynotes & Video
Guided team events and leadership trips for companies, from an afternoon in the mountains above Salt Lake City to a private company climb of Kilimanjaro. Add a keynote from two Everest guides, or a film of your team’s trip by our own production company. You tell us your dates, your group and your goal; we plan everything around it.
Choose Your Event
2 · Team day in MoabA guided day on Moab’s red sandstone, for first-timers and experienced climbers together.
3 · Leadership or incentive tripA private company climb of Kilimanjaro, or anywhere we guide.
4 · Keynote or workshopWillie and Damian Benegas on decisions, risk and leadership at altitude.
5 · Video productionA film of your team’s event or trip, or a company film shot in the mountains.
Quick Facts for Planners
Salt Lake City team days take up to 12 people. Trips and talks are planned for your group; ask us about your numbers.
A half or full day in Salt Lake City, one day or more in Moab, ten days on Kilimanjaro. Talks run from a short keynote to a workshop.
Team days are matched to mixed fitness and experience. Kilimanjaro needs no climbing skills, just 8–12 weeks of training.
WMG guides, all climbing gear and instruction, hotel or downtown pickup, lunch or snacks, and photos of the day.
We plan around your offsite, conference or event dates.
Every event is quoted for your group, your format and what you want included.
Built by Willie & Damian Benegas
Benegas Brothers Expeditions was founded in 1992 by twin brothers Willie and Damian Benegas, who grew up exploring the coast of Patagonia and went on to climb and guide in the Andes, Alaska, Yosemite and the Himalaya: 20 Everest summits between them, and a new route on Nuptse that won Climbing magazine’s Golden Piton Award. What they bring to a company is not only mountain experience. It is how they lead people when it matters.
In 2011 Damian climbed the Lhotse Face to help seven Spanish climbers in trouble, an effort that lasted eighteen hours and was recognized by the Argentine Olympic Committee’s Heroic Athlete Award and the International Fair Play Committee. After the 2014 Khumbu Icefall avalanche, he led the team’s rescue operations.
After the 2015 Nepal earthquake they built Nepal Relief, paying local porters a fair wage to carry supplies into villages that roads and helicopters could not reach. The UN World Food Programme funded the operation, BBE ran the logistics, and WFP recognized the work with a humanitarian award.
Local guides, Sherpa teams, cooks, muleteers and drivers, across countries and languages, some working with BBE since the 1990s. In their words: an itinerary can be copied and equipment can be purchased, but trust cannot be created at the last minute.
In 2018 Willie climbed Everest while Damian, his identical twin, served as the control for NASA’s Everest Twins multi-omics study.
Through Benegas Brothers Productions, Damian ran the Andes unit for J. A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow.
Utah team days are guided by WMG guides; Willie or Damian can lead your trip or speak at your event on request, confirmed in writing. Read their full story.
1 · Team Day in Salt Lake City
The Wasatch Mountains start 20 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City, which makes a guided team day easy to add to an offsite or a conference. In summer the group rock climbs with guides; in winter we can plan snow and ice days. Everyone climbs with a rope above them and a guide beside them, at their own level, so first-timers and experienced people share the same day.
Half day or full day, up to 12 people, with hotel or downtown pickup, lunch or snacks, and photos of the day included. See Salt Lake City Guided Days for what a day looks like.
2 · Team Day in Moab
A guided day on the red sandstone around Moab, built around your group’s size and experience. First-timers climb with a rope above them and a guide beside them; experienced climbers can go further. Everyone goes home with the same story. Guides, gear and instruction are covered, with pickup, lunch or snacks and photos of the day. For a bigger challenge, our four-day Moab Desert Towers trip climbs desert summits.
3 · Leadership or Incentive Trip
Kilimanjaro, just for your company. The highest mountain in Africa, and the summit most of your team will have heard of. It needs no climbing skills, only months of preparation and one hard night climbing together. That is why it works so well for a leadership team or as a reward trip.
We run the climb on your dates, only for your group, on a quiet route with an extra day to adjust to the altitude.
Your team trains toward the same date with a structured plan. The preparation becomes part of the experience back at work.
Most people who climb Kilimanjaro with us have never done anything like it. They hike, run a little and prepare honestly.
Finish with a safari or a beach stay before flying home.
Or anywhere we guide. We also build company trips in Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Chile, Nepal, Alaska and Utah. Tell us what you have in mind and we will tell you honestly what fits. See the full Kilimanjaro expedition or Private & Custom.
4 · Keynote or Workshop
Willie and Damian speak from what they have lived on Everest and in the world’s great ranges. Topics include:
- The decision nobody wants to hear. Preparing properly, knowing when to turn around, and leading when the answer is no.
- Trust can’t be created at the last minute. Building teams across cultures, languages and roles that hold up under pressure.
- When the summit is no longer the objective. Leadership in a crisis, from rescues high on Everest to earthquake relief in Nepal.
- Being capable creates responsibility. Putting the person next to you ahead of the goal.
Book them as a keynote for your conference, a workshop for your leadership team, or an evening talk before your team’s own climb. Formats and fees on request.
5 · Video Production
Benegas Brothers Productions is our own film company. Its credits include the Andes unit for Netflix’s Society of the Snow and work for ESPN. We can film your team’s event or expedition as a short film or a full production, or shoot a company or brand film in the mountains, with a crew that already knows how to work safely at altitude. See Consulting & Logistics.
Why Companies Choose BBE
A real mountain gives a team a real objective: people look after each other, plans change, and everyone shares the result. Two brothers started BBE in 1992; today it is one team of guides, expedition leaders and local partners, and we can put your event, a talk from the founders and a film of your team together as one program. Mix the pieces you need.
Utah team days, in Salt Lake City and Moab, are operated and guided by Wasatch Mountain Guides (WMG).
Request a Proposal
Tell us your dates, how many people, where your team will be and which event you are interested in. We will reply with what is possible and a proposal. Request a proposal.