β‘ This is the first of three emails to show you who we are, what we do, and how we do it.
Today, I want to tell the story of Mapo Tapo and its community π§ββοΈπ₯ΎπΏπ.
To do that, I will answer these two questions:
What is Mapo Tapo?
Who is in this community?
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π€ What is Mapo Tapo?
We are an international travel brand partnering with local certified guides worldwide and a community founded by outdoor sports enthusiasts ππ₯°.
Mapo Tapo was born during the COVID-19 pandemic in August 2020. Not the best period for an outdoor sports travel brand π . But @Dani already left his job and was set to start Mapo Tapoπ.
For about one year, we could not run trips. What did we do? We made a guidebook of the world 50 best climbing destination: The Climbing Travel Guide. Here is how it went:
We produced the guidebook, and shipped it to 800+ addresses worldwide in July 2021.
The Mapo Tapo outdoor sports travel community was officially born with its first 587 members who backed the campaign.
In the meantime, the pandemic set off, travel came back, and we started doing what we love the most: connect you with local climbing, hiking, and skiing guides in fantastic destinations and find you travel buddies to go with π₯π₯. Since then a lot has happened: