Starting in 2023, Element will be an official member of “Engage for the Planet”, the French-based affiliate of the World Wildlife Fund. As one of the world's most trusted NGO’s since 1961, WWF works to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature.

When the Element and Millet teams went on their fun-finding mission to Portugal earlier in the year, the editorial stylists from Place Magazine in Berlin were also dispatched to document the journey and gain some insight into who these athletes are as human beings. The following article will also be found in the print Element x Millet issue of Place Magazine; available in finer skateshops worldwide.

Ales Amor was born for this. He might have fallen in love with skateboarding when he was 13, he also had the mountains in his blood: his parents were running a high mountain refuge for, and he grew up in a small village perched atop the Pyrenean Mountains.


After his latest adventure across the mountain, we managed to catch some advice from his hiking experience - as in, why it's not always a good idea to take iced baths in the middle of a snow storm.