Career Center: TOB Winter 2017, Moszynski

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The ‘Flight’ of a Lifetime

By Mike Kennedy ’99

F

OR ADAM Moszynski ’00,

as he honed his character and lead-

style events and traveled around the

it’s all about the chase.

ership skills.

region to film my skiing endeavors —

Since leaving Gettysburg

“I knew from then on that I

College in the fall of 2002,

wanted to immerse myself in a more

all the while falling in love with the mountain lifestyle.”

after two years without declaring a

outdoor-focused environment,”

The Darien, Conn., native

major, the Brunswick graduate has

he recalled. “I couldn’t deny how

waited tables and bartended to

energized it made me feel and the

fuel (and monetarily support) his

challenges it presented.”

outdoor obsessions — ultimately

put the pedal to the metal.

He’d lost his way in central Pennsylvania — he was stopped

Instead, he hung up his soccer cleats,

He headed west and enrolled as a

dead in his tracks, in fact — as

packed his bags, and began going

junior at the University of Colorado

Sommelier (Level 2) in the Court of

he questioned his academic and

after his dreams at high speeds and

at Boulder, graduating with a degree

Master Sommeliers, and working in

athletic future and wondered where

even higher altitudes.

in international affairs and a minor

several top-tier restaurants in Aspen.

his life was taking him. As hard as

Moszynski first landed in the

he searched, he couldn’t find any

NOLS programs in Baja, Mexico,

real answers.

and northern India, quickly realizing

But Moszynski didn’t hunker down and feel sorry for himself.

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in French before moving to Aspen to begin his professional career.

studying wine, becoming a Certified

But after meeting his future wife, Darcy, Moszynski fell back under the

“I skied and skied — and kept

spell of the mountains — skiing from

that he felt at home among the

skiing,” Moszynski said. “I chased

the summits of Denali (20,320 feet)

beauty of his natural surroundings

sponsorships by competing in free-

in Alaska and Cotopaxi (19,340 feet)

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in Ecuador, as well as climbing peaks in Argentina and Peru.

The two set their sights on summiting the Centennials of Colorado — the state’s 100 highest peaks from 13,809 to 14,433 feet — and have checked 93 off their “peakbagging” list to date.

And, after marrying, in 2012, the newlywed Moszynskis traveled to Tanzania for their honeymoon — their eyes opened to a potential new business venture while ascending Mt. Kilimanjaro via the the Western Lemosho route.

“It was a life-changing trip,” Moszynski said.

ABOVE

The Moszynski team returned

Adam Moszynski skis the slopes of Aspen.

home and soon founded — and

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now own and operate — Corbeaux

Moszynski sits atop the summit of Urus Este (17,782 feet) in the Ishinca Valley, Cordillera Blanca, Peru.

Clothing, a sports apparel company designing stylish and rugged base layers for an active lifestyle of

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mountaineering, skiing, biking, and

Moszynski took part in an athlete photo shoot for Flylow Gear and Kastle skis.

any other athletic venture.

“Corbeaux was born out of neces-

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sity,” Moszynski said. “As sponsored

Through “Join the Flight,” Moszynski helped outfit Joaquin Rosales, a mountaineering legend in Huaraz, Peru, who has more than 200 ascents of Huascaran, the highest peak in the Cordillera Blanca.

skiers and mountaineers, we have traveled the world — climbing peaks, skiing, hiking, and testing wellknown brands — but we never found any next-to-skin apparel that met our functional demands.

“We’ve committed to nailing the fit, feel, and performance of the product to keep people dry in the outdoors. Your next-to-skin layer is

The company has outfitted

to do what we originally moved

“And I learned to be truthful

the most important for tempera-

roughly 100 guides, porters, and

to Colorado to do: Be active, stay

in my business actions as well as

ture regulation.”

camp cooks in Peru and Ecuador

healthy, and spend time in the

my athletic endeavors from my

outdoors with great people.”

experiences and my mentors at

All products are manufactured

through local unions — with plans to

in the USA, using environmentally

expand into Bolivia, Tanzania, Kenya,

friendly fabrics.

and Nepal.

In addition, Corbeaux prides itself on a strong global philanthropic ethos — Join the Flight — an effort

For Moszynski, it’s the life he’s always wanted.

“We love being involved in the

And, too, it’s a life he can trace back to his roots as a student at Brunswick.

“Brunswick gave me courage to

Brunswick.”

Family man (now the father of one-year-old daughter, Harlan),

become a mountaineer and to start

athlete, entrepreneur, Sommelier,

my own business,” he said. “The

and world traveler, Moszynski has

to donate new and gently-used

outdoor-sports industry, as it’s a

School taught me to live by an honor

come a long way since starting the

gear to communities of guides and

very inspiring and healthy commu-

system, a prerequisite of mountain-

chase nearly 15 years ago.

porters in underdeveloped mountain

nity of like-minded people,” he

eering, as only you and your partners

cultures around the world.

said. “It has allowed us to continue

know what you’ve truly accomplished.

“I’m living the dream — in more ways than one.”

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