Tag: discover
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Jan Mayen 16th June 2026
We woke up this morning with a lot of trepidation to find the island completely lost in fog. We had been planning and studying the weather for days to see if we might get a chance to land. Jan Mayen is a remote volcanic island 500km of the east coast of Greenland administered by Norway.…
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Starting the Arctic Season
Another long travel day survived on the way north. Set out at 6am to fly out of Santiago over to Buenos Aires. Nice empty flight for the first leg. Then the usual run around Buenos Aires airport to get back on the plane for the second leg to Amsterdam. Plane was super full and sleep…
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Day 5 Flying to Nepal via India 8th April
Day 5 of our journey to Nepal to hike the EBC. Today we are on our way to Nepal. We slept in a bit this morning so had to rush pack up the last of our stuff and checkout. We then headed over to our favourite pub for our last possibly familiar meal. Then it…
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Day 19 Gorak Shep to Pheriche – Everest Base Camp Trek
Day 19 of our attempt at Everest Base Camp trek. Today was our day to start making our way back down the mountain. We are quite ready as some of the altitude sickness symptoms such as lack of appetite have become quite annoying. The plan was to hike down 11km losing approximately 1000 metres of…