By Shaya Laughlin From Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Walking through a refugee tent settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley brings mixed feelings. On one side, there is the misery and the despair. Families living in severe poverty, crammed in rudimentary tents...
During 2016 scuba diving became a passion. Loving travel, people and the sea, becoming a scuba instructor, was the obvious choice. Easier said than done, but with a huge number of internships on offer I jumped at the opportunity...
Until today, more than 50.000 refugees of all ages and nationalities continue to find themselves stuck in a bureaucratic limbo in Greece. Barely protected by authorities and organizations, the violation of their human rights and right to seek asylum...
This April I travelled through Morocco with some three Italians, one of them being a very dear friend of mine. Although we see each other only once a year we share a deep connection built on our shared love...
Our beloved friend Constantin Vogt passed away in an avalanche accident near Lauenen in Switzerland in late February 2018. It is incredibly hard to believe. Conny was an outstanding personality, mountain lover and a truly big inspiration for all...
There exists not a single skiing slope in Nepal, nor any local snow sports culture. At the customs I was asked if my ski bag contained golf cubs. In short, although the country hosts the highest mountains of the...
We produce something that has no value to be collected, nor to be recycled. We produce something for which we have no viable technology to handle it. We produce something that is bound to leak into the environment. The...
Following a well-established tradition, members and friends of the Pangaea Project e.V. met from 30th December 2017 until 1st of January 2018 to celebrate New Years and hold the annual meeting. This year we planned to meet at...
Reflection written by Kirsten König Not being an engineer, one might think that the documentation of a borehole construction is not interesting to accompany. However, if this construction takes place in an area hardly visited by non- South...
By Sophia Paul At the end of my bachelor, I spent a semester abroad in Utrecht in the Netherlands. There I first encountered EGEA, the European Geography Association. That’s a Europe-wide student association with more than 90 local groups...