The Young Explorers Program in the Black Forest is a project which was inspired by Mike Horn’s Pangaea Project over four years ago. Over the past years, we have set up a network of over 60 young and likeminded...
The Congo Basin is the second largest tropical rainforest and biodiversity hotspot in the world after the Amazonia. Covering an area of 3.7 million square kilometers, the tropical rainforest locates in several central African countries including Cameroon, the Republic...
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...
The avid cyclist I am, I’ve always had a lure towards the suffering of battling up a mountain pass… and of course bombing down the other side! So why Lesotho, well it isn’t known as the mountain kingdom for...
Following the trail of 400 year old Russian history, an international expedition of twelve dogsleds covered roughly 200 kilometers – and I was in the midst of it. Some months ago I could not imagine myself dashing through Russian snow...
The day we, eleven Pangaea Young Explorers, all met in Marrakech was special for me. We shared the excitement about the next days together and the adventure ahead. The first challenge of the trip – how to find transportation...
I am from Down Under, but this year I am on an exchange, and my host sister Nora took me for New Years to the best country in the world – Switzerland. We came to meet with the other Pangaea members...
When electricity is scarce, water is not drinkable, the weather is not always in your favor, mosquitoes, and many other insects bother you 24h a day, and phone reception is poor, we realize how dependent of technology and comfort...
After 2300 kilometers, 43 days and many challenges along the way, we had made it! We had just cycled the length of New Zealand! It all started with a wild idea to undertake our own mini-expedition. Inspired by the...
The Dakar Rally is a famous off-road endurance race originally called “Paris to Dakar rally”, but since 2009 it takes place in South America. This year it started in Lima, and will finish in Chile. So, we used the...