From the onset Aldaz commenced co-operation with the press and kept providing ongoing correspondence from his voyages to selected media. In 1997 he worked as correspondent of "Diario de Navarra" to Zaire and covered the ongoing civil war in the mid-1990s. Already at the time some newspapers featured him as “explorador del siglo XXI” and especially the Madrid titles kept referring to him as to organizer of adventure trips for the youth. In the mid-2000s Aldaz tried his hand in film-making industry. In 2004-2005 he served as trainee production assistant during the making of "Capitán Alatriste" by Agustín Díaz Yanes, the second most-expensive Spanish movie ever. Shortly afterwards he was employed as a location runner for "Goya’s Ghosts" by Miloš Forman. Having gained experience Aldaz started to produce video materials from his "Rumbo al Sur" editions, first floated in social media and then professionally made programs intended for commercial media. His documentary broadcast in the local Telemadrid channel earned him the Fundación Codespa prize in periodismo category in the year of 2009.