Find or Make a Way

Take the Inviator Challenge: make the improbable possible and do what they said couldn't be done.

Philosophy: No Way is Our Way

Inviator: from Latin invia, meaning pathless, impassable, without a way.

An Inviator is a person of the pathless path: someone with enough creativity – or stupidity – to build a way where none existed.

The Inviator Challenge is built on a simple and frivolous premise: attempting activities that were practically impossible, impractical, or simply never thought of until now. Forget well-trodden paths and take the road less taken. Make the improbable possible through your own mix of innovation, grit, stubbornness, and pure, blind, reckless optimism.

The Challenge: Reimagining the Possible

For decades, certain adventures were off-limits due to a lack of available technology, inaccessible geography, or just because nobody was ever silly enough to attempt them. But blah, blah, change is the only constant… when sad news and BS dominate the headlines, it's time to do something mad, bad or dangerous.

We kicked off the Inviator Challenge by deciding to sail higher than anyone in history, after we learned that inflatable sailboats had become a thing. Now, if you're willing to lug the kit on your backs, you can sail in places never previously practical.

Inviator takes this spirit and generalises it. It challenges anyone to find the previously-impossible – on land, air or sea – and show the world that it can be done.

Quote

Inveniam viam aut faciam

(I shall find a way or make one)

– Hannibal, when told he could not cross the Alps by elephant.

Our Current Quest: Sailing the Roof of the World

To bring Inviator to the world, we are attempting a world-first that is as challenging as it is absurd.

In September 2026 we (a team of friends from the UK) will head to the Annapurna region of Nepal. Our mission: to become the world's highest sailors.

The Destination: Kajin Sara, a recently discovered lake at a little over 5,000 m (16,000 ft) altitude.
The Payload: We will be carrying inflatable sailing dinghies – weighing between 25kg and 50kg – on our backs for a six-day ascent from Chame.
World Record: If we reach the water and manage to sail for 10 consecutive minutes over at least 1 km, we will secure a Guinness World Record for the highest anyone has ever sailed. And for a bonus, we're also aiming for the world's highest sailing race, and yacht club.

Keep Making Memories

A note from the Inviator founders

We don't pretend to be elite explorers, or missionaries for some higher plight. This is not a business. We will never be influencers. We're just mates, driven to do strange and memorable things, preferably in dangerous and hard-to-explain situations. And while we reach for the roof of the world to unfurl sails where none have been before, we invite you to invent your own Inviator Challenges and share them here.

What will you do, that was previously thought impossible or unthinkable?

Follow our journey. Find your own. Make a way.