Tag: explore
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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 12 Everest Basecamp Trek Acclimatization Day
Day 12 of our attempt to hike the EBC. We stayed in the famous Namche Bazaar last night and today it was an acclimatization day. Which means that we go to hike at a higher altitude and then come back down to encourage our bodies to adapt to the height. Today we hiked out to…
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Day 14 Tangboche to Dingboche Everest Basecamp Trek
Day 14 of our attempt to hike the EBC. Today was a rough day for me personally. It started with mum waking me up at 5am telling she was done and wasn’t going hike any further. She couldn’t eat the food and she was done. Well after a little bit of cajoling and taking a…
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Day 16 Dingboche to Thukla – Everest Base Camp
So day 16 of our attempt at the Everest Base Camp trek and hopefully they get a bit more positive after this one. After having a raging fever all night I woke up completely wrecked. I haven’t had a fever like that since Covid. I woke up dehydrated, sleep deprived, dizzy and weak facing a…
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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…
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Day 20 Pheriche to Phortse – Everest Basecamp Trek
Day 20 of our attempt to hike to EBC and sadly my last day of hiking. Our goal was to hit another 11km back down the mountain from Pheriche to Phortse losing about another 1000 metres in elevation to about 3800. Once again we started with amazing weather. The plan was to take the high…