2025 Night of High Adventure

Join us for our annual black-tie gala of fine dining, camaraderie, and amazing adventure stories told firsthand at the Adventurers’ Club of Los Angeles 2025 Night of High Adventure.

This year’s celebration will be held at the beautiful San Pedro Elks Lodge overlooking the historic port of Los Angeles.

Keynote Speaker- Victor Vescovo

Victor L. Vescovo is a private investor with over thirty years of experience in a variety of complex business situations. He co-founded private equity firm Insight Equity in 2002 with his business partner, Ted Beneski and raised over $1.5 billion in equity capital across four funds investing primarily in industrial, asset-intensive industries. Victor’s primary investment focus while at Insight Equity were in the defense, aerospace, and electronics industries with a specific emphasis on executing operational improvements at the investments as Insight’s Chief Operating Officer. In 2023, he departed Insight in order to focus on his own investments with new capabilities to support industrial startups, life sciences, and other areas of venture capital and special situations.

Victor received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, a Master’s Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. Additionally, Victor served 20 years in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an intelligence and targeting officer, retiring in 2013 as a Commander.

In 2017, Victor completed the “Explorer’s Grand Slam” which requires climbing the highest peak on all seven of the world’s continents including Mt. Everest and skiing at least 100 kilometers to the North and South Poles. He piloted the first repeated dives to the ocean’s deepest point, Challenger Deep, in the Pacific’s Mariana Trench — now fifteen times, and in August 2019 became the first person to visit “The Five Deeps,” the deepest point in all five of the world’s oceans. Victor has now personally explored the bottom of seventeen deep ocean trenches and has made three dives to the Titanic including the only solo dive ever made there. He and his team also discovered and surveyed the two deepest shipwrecks in the world: the USS Johnston in 2021 and the deepest, the USS Samuel B. Roberts at 22,600 feet, in 2022. In 2025, the US Navy announced that T-AGOS 26, a new ocean surveillance vessel of the Explorer class, would be named after him.

He is also a commercially rated, multi-engine jet, seaplane, and helicopter pilot, a certified submersible test pilot, and recently flew into space on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, becoming the first person in history to climb Mount Everest, dive to the bottom of the ocean, and visit space.

Schedule

• 6:00 Doors Open: Silent Auction, Hors d’oeuvres & Cocktails
• 7:00 Opening Remarks
• 7:05 Ringing of the Bell
• 7:10 The Traditional Four Toasts
• 7:15 New Member Inductions
• 7:25 Introduction of the Class of 2025
• 7:40 Dinner Served
• 8:15 Introduction of Keynote Speaker
• 9:15 Silent Auction Concludes
• 9:30 Adventurer of the Year Award
• 9:45 Auction Winners Announced
• 9:55 Closing Remarks
  
  

  Silent Auction

  In addition to honoring fellow Adventurers’, the Night of High Adventure serves as a fundraiser for the club. Members and guests are encouraged to participate in our silent auction featuring Artifacts, Exotic Sundries, and Adventurous Experiences.

This Year’s Auction Items Include:

Check back for a preview of this year’s auction items.

This program was organized by Rich Mayfield #1211.