ANTARCTICA 2024/2025
// Objective:
Unsupported kite crossing of the coldest continent
// Duration:
Approximately 60 days
// Distance:
Approximately 3600 km
// Novolazarevskaya (Russia) → Point of Inaccessibility → South Pole/ Amundsen Scott Base (USA) → Hercules Inlet. Return to Union Glacier.
This expedition would be the toughest yet for Patrick. There are many expected challenges such as temperatures reaching extremes lows of -40°C, windchill of -60°C and wind speeds of up to 60 knots
(100 km/h | 70 m/h)
“ANTARCTICA HAS THIS MYTHIC WEIGHT. IT RESIDES IN THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS OF SO MANY PEOPLE, AND IT MAKES THIS HUGE IMPACT, JUST LIKE OUTER SPACE. IT’S LIKE GOING TO THE MOON.”
-JON KRAKAUER
PAST EXPEDITIONS
Greenland 2019
// Timeframe: May-June 2019; 30 to 45 days // Objective: Full South-North Crossing of Greenland // Distance: 2300 km // From Narsarsuaq to Qaanaag passing by DYE2. An Antarctic crossing takes 4 years of training and preparation, and for Patrick this includes two...
Arctic Canada
// Timeframe: 2017 // Objective: North-West Passage Kite Crossing// Kiting across and along the Northwest Passage, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Experiencing multiple different snow conditions on the...
Iceland
// Timeframe: May 2014 & Apr 2015 // Destination: Vatnajökull & Highlands, Iceland// Crossing the largest ice cap in Europe by volume (3,100 km³) and the second-largest in the area with the exploration of Grimsvötn volcano and the ascent of Iceland’s highest...