Inspired by the drink of Platón de Tchihatcheff. A traveling geographer, born 43 km south of SaintPetersburg in 1818, who after the Army Service (1835) traveled the world climbing untouched mountains and interacting with nature. His highly educated mother taught him an ancient potion called Akvo, consisting of rare berries, ginger and coffee.
Plato’s grandmother, Mrs. Agnes Puig, had brought from the Pyrenees of Andorra Akvo’s potion along with the stories about these magical mountains before Hercules. According to her drinking this mixture reinforced the vital energy and the spirit. Each ingredient has been thoroughly designed forsurvival in extreme body and conscience conditions.

Thus one could continue with strong body and mind. The rare mountain berries had anti-pain, anti-inflammatory characteristics and the presence of vitamin C helped in the resistance. They also protected the cells from bacteria and regulated the heart and consequently the blood. Ginger was used as a digestive, due to the food restraints during the journeys, and also as oil around the body to deny muscles, joints and keep warm. Coffee, being a liver regulator, controlled the entire flow of nergy, maintaining strength in the blood system, energizing the heart.

The story goes that Platón, on a mountaineering trip to the Pyrenees range, the group that was with him got lost from Magdalena Peak for a few days, thus discovering Aneto – the highest point of the chain on July 18, 1942.

But credible records in Plato’s personal diaries show that some were lost weeks living with a pack of red foxes, of which Plato made notes of the behavior, and that incredibly start bringing hunting to the group as a gift. Platón went on to prepare Akvo with its survival ingredients, sharing it with the group and the foxes who enthusiastically drank it. The climber says he had noticed a different trait in the animals that were shared his Akvo. According to him after a few weeks they had more energy and strength than the others and apparent signs of sharper communication resembling other animals… like man, in addition to an atypical almost feline ability to climb trees and move through the cave where the group was confined.