Helping Band – Our
identity
For us, our cooperation partners and all those who participate, Helping Band is an expression of an attitude - for commitment, participation and meaningful action. At the same time, Helping Band is our personal reminder, telling us every day: It's up to you. Just start and get involved in terms of sustainability, environmental compatibility, social justice and humanity.
Helping Band – Our
mission
Helping Band wants to build bridges. We want that people reach out their handtogether to move a tiny step closer to their ideal of a world worthy of living in.
With Helping Band we won’t change the world overnight. But we can set an example, together.And with each individual project, we can make our own personal contribution. Because we support the ideas and initiatives that appear to us as necessary, correct and valuable and which bring us as society a step forward.
Let’s come together. Share goals and values. And let’s see what we can achieve together.
Let’s unite and create change.
Benedikt Böhm is the founder and driving force behind Helping Band. He launched the initiative because protecting our planet—and especially its threatened natural environments—is a cause close to his heart. Through Helping Band, he hopes to join forces with people around the world to help ensure that future generations can experience nature just as he has on his expeditions.
Benedikt Böhm profile
Benedikt Böhm, born in Munich in 1977, is a speed ski mountaineer, extreme skier, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker. Until July 2026, he served as CEO of Lupine, the German premium manufacturer of high-performance headlamps and bike lights. Before that, he spent more than two decades as an international managing director of the outdoor brand Dynafit.
Benedikt combines extreme mountaineering with entrepreneurship. He translates the lessons learned on his expeditions—resilience, decision-making under pressure, and teamwork in extreme environments—into the business world through his keynote speeches and entrepreneurial ventures.
Since 2022, he has served as a WWF Ambassador, with a particular focus on the Himalayan region.
His expeditions & initiatives:
- Himlung Himal (7,126 m), Nepal, 2022 – summit in 6 hrs 43 min, origin of HelpingBand
- Cho Oyu (8,188 m), Tibet, 2023 – nonstop speed ascent of the world's sixth-highest peak in 12 hrs 35 min
- Spantik Speed Project (7,027 m), Pakistan, 2024
- Expedition to benefit the Snow Leopard Trust
- Expedition to benefit medical are flights Nepal
- Expedition to benefit Albert Schweitzer Children's Homes
Helping Band - the
organisation
Helping Band is fully independent of other organizations and institutions and not based on commercially oriented growth.
For every project, we seek suitable partners from various segments that we can support with the sales of our wristbands.
FAQ – Häufig gestellte Fragen
Who founded Helping Band?
The initiative was founded by Benedikt Böhm, an extreme skier and speed mountaineer, public speaker and manager in the sporting goods industry. Preserving our planet is a cause close to his heart.
Is Helping Band a profit-making organisation, or is it dependent on other organisations?
No. Helping Band is completely independent of other organisations and institutions and is not geared towards commercial growth. The aim is to break even, not to make a profit.
What does Helping Band stand for beyond simply protecting the environment?
Helping Band sees itself as an expression of an attitude – one of commitment, participation and meaningful action in the areas of sustainability, environmental responsibility, social justice and humanity. It aims to build bridges and, at the same time, serves as a daily reminder: it’s all in your own hands.