EXPEDITIONS//TRAVELS

NORTH POLE

The North Pole trip was an intense expedition with three days of introductory training in Longyearbyen on Svalbard and twelve days on the arctic ice.

TIME FRAME
15 April – 2 May 2003

OBJECTIVE
To cover the last degree to the North Pole N90.00.00 on skis

GREENLAND

Together with Scottish polar guide Matt Spenceley from GES-Greenland Expedition Specialists, Patrick kited and climbed his way from Nagtivit to Eqip Sermia covering a distance of approximately 750 kilometres.

TIME FRAME
Aug 2008

OBJECTIVE
Unsupported, coast to coast East-West kiting expedition from Nagtivit to Eqip Sermia

ICECLIMBING

After Scottish mixed- and ice-climbing in the Ben Nevis Massif and the Cairngorms in earlier years now tackling frozen waterfalls in Switzerland. Pure pleasure on very steep to vertical technical ice routes.
Mountain guide: François Farquet

TIME FRAME
2009

OBJECTIVE
New skill

FINLAND

Introducing the family to arctic dry cold, starting the work with huskies, doing a small dogsled expedition, discovering the Northern Lights, learning even more polar survival skills.
Hetta Huskies

TIME FRAME
March 2013

OBJECTIVE
Introducing family to arctic joys

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 peak, in the southern periphery of Vatnajökull.

TIME FRAME
May 2014 & 2015

OBJECTIVES
Vatnajökull Crossing & Iceland Highlands Kite Crossing

ARCTIC CANADA

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 frozen waterways and on the small islands in challenging temperatures with high windchill.

TIME FRAME
2017

OBJECTIVE
North-West Passage Kite Crossing

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