Mountaineer. Engineer. Photographer.

Mountaineer: Living for adventure and working in the summers as a backcountry guide in Alaska.

Engineer: Graduating recently with an Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He has worked on developing biological research devices and is currently working on developing a web application.

Photographer: Finding fulfillment in capturing moments-in-time that go unnoticed

Those are the pillars of his life.

He was born and raised in a modern Orthodox Jewish family in North Jersey and is the grandson of Auschwitz-Holocaust survivors.

You might ask yourself? How did a nice Jewish boy who went to Yeshiva for grade school end up in the mountains of Alaska?

The story begins at his roots. His parents were adventurers. They were avid whitewater kayakers and backpackers. Two Jews meeting in an eddy on the West River in Vermont was a match made in heaven. They instilled the love of the outdoors from day one, but their adventures throughout his childhood pertained to the East Coast of the US. After high school, 2018, he made a dramatic life-changing decision: taking a gap year volunteering with AmeriCorps NCCC (a domestic version of the Peace Corps), followed by booking the next available flight to Alaska, to backpack around alone. Two events happened in Alaska that had a butterfly effect:

1. He met an incredible down-to-earth family in Talkeetna who hooked him up with a free high-altitude flight tour of Denali with a glacier landing. After just breaking out of his suburban upbringing bubble and landing at 7,000 feet on the Ruth glacier, in knee-deep powder with the summit of Denali towering another 13,000 feet above, he said to himself, “Next time I am back, and I will be back, I will be scaling this peak!” --- He signed up for the next intro to mountaineering course he could and went down the rabbit hole and got into mountain guiding in Alaska. 3 years later, he worked as an assistant guide on Denali but hasn’t summited yet.
2. While hiking in Denali National Park, he met a random woman who showed him how to use a Canon DSLR on the summit of Mt. Healy, right outside the visitor center. --- When he got home for Passover from Alaska, he purchased his first real camera that he could afford, an Olympus EM5 Mark I, and hopped on a plane to Northern British Columbia after the holiday and began honing his craft.

Today, his photography captures the profound beauty of nature and the fleeting moments that often go unnoticed. Whether scaling towering peaks or exploring quiet forests, his lens seeks out the raw, untamed essence of the wilderness. His work reflects not only his technical skills as a photographer but also his deep personal connection to the landscapes that shaped him.

After losing his father to pancreatic cancer in December 2023, the decision to begin selling his prints took on greater meaning. In and out of the hospital for over a year and a half, and on morphine for most of it, his father eagerly awaited the prints Beryl would send from his adventures in New Zealand while studying a semester abroad. These images brightened the bleak hospital room that had become his father’s prison. When Beryl returned home in the summer of 2023, they spoke at great length, during endless waits for doctors and nurses, about how Beryl could print, price, and market his work. Through his prints, he invites you to transform your space with the majesty and serenity of the natural world. He hopes these images inspire the same awe and adventure that first led him and his father into the wild.

Photography Equipment: Olympus pro-gear

Fun Fact: As a lifelong Lord of the Rings(LOTR) fan, he started a blacksmithing club at his university. While studying abroad in New Zealand he met at random a Blacksmith who worked on the LOTR and Hobbit films and he taught Beryl how to forge a dragon.