Wilderness
expeditions

Eight days in Lapland with your family or with friends and their families: huskies, reindeer, snowmobiles and northern lights, with a night in a snow cave you dig yourselves.

Eight days with your family or with friends and their families: the medina of Marrakesh, a night in the desert under the stars and by mule to a Berber village in the Atlas.

Ten days with your family or with friends and their families: yurts by two mountain lakes, on horseback over the pass and a night in your own camp in the mountains.

Fourteen days with your family or with friends and their families: hiking among the volcanoes of the Andes, on horseback with the herders, a night in a tent and a day in the jungle.

Fourteen days with your family or with friends and their families: by 4x4 from the highest dunes in the world to the ocean and a wildlife park, with kayaking among the seals, an abseil and a night in the desert under the stars.

A helicopter drops you in Patagonia on a route that has never been done before, and does not come back. On foot, by packraft and across glaciers, you find the way back together.

Sixteen days straight across Patagonia, far from any road. On foot and by packraft. Across glaciers, lakes and rivers, and through rainforest.

In one week you climb through five climate zones, from tropical rainforest to the glaciers on the crater rim. Summit night starts at midnight, on the way to Uhuru Peak.

On skis, with all your gear on a sled behind you, from point A to point B through Norway, Sweden and Finland. Along the way you spend a night in a snow cave you build yourself.

A helicopter drops you in the frozen wilderness of Lapland, where nobody lives. You cross snowfields and frozen lakes and sleep in a snow cave you dig yourself.

Sixteen days on foot and on horseback through the snowy Altai, with the herders through winter. Led by Koen De Leeuw, known from the Belgian TV series De Expeditie.

On foot over loose ash from crater rim to crater rim, past volcanoes that still smoke. By kayak across a lake as big as a sea, and a night on the rim of an active crater.

From the last road you head into the Scottish Highlands on foot, away from villages and signal. Over ridges, by packraft across the lochs and fishing by the river.

From Longyearbyen you head, pulling your gear on a sled, to a part of the island no tourists reach. Ten days under the midnight sun, with a polar bear watch every night.

A helicopter drops you on the edge of the ice cap, and from then on there is only one direction: east. Weeks on skis across the ice, fully self sufficient, with all your gear on a sled.

On foot through the oldest desert in the world, between dunes three hundred metres high. With local trackers you head for the misty coast, where the desert meets the Atlantic Ocean.

A bush plane drops you deeper into the wilderness than any road reaches. You start on the glacier, cross mountains and forest and finish by packraft on the lakes.

A week of mountaineering in the Monte Rosa massif: crampons and rope to six summits above 4,000 metres, and a night in the highest hut in the Alps.

First you acclimatise on lower peaks and learn the technique with crampons, rope and ice axe. Then comes the highest mountain in Western Europe, with a night in the mountain hut before the summit.

First you acclimatise on the four thousand metre peaks around Zermatt, until you are ready. Then you climb the Hörnli ridge to 4,478 metres, one to one with your mountain guide.

A charter flight takes you to the far north of Labrador. On foot past fjords and cliffs more than nine hundred metres high, with Inuit bear guards by your side.

Where the last road ends, Sarek begins: no marked trails, hardly any bridges, no huts. You carry everything yourself, wade the rivers and decide together with your group.

A small plane drops you in the middle of the Okavango Delta. No lodge, no jeep, no fence: on foot and by canoe among the wildlife, with your own camp.

With local porters you head into the Nangma valley, to a base camp at 4,000 metres among granite towers. From there you climb on the granite below Amin Brakk.

Through bamboo forest, moorland and giant plants on the equator, on routes where you meet few other groups. Summit day to Point Lenana, 4,985 metres, starts long before sunrise.

A small plane drops you on a grass strip deep in the interior of Suriname. Upstream by canoe, pushing the boat over rapids and sleeping in a hammock.

A 4x4 drops you in the desert and drives back. Days on foot through southern Morocco, with your water in a desert cart, navigating by compass and sleeping under the stars.

On the border with Congo lie the Mountains of the Moon. Through mud and giant plants you climb to glaciers on the equator and the summit of Margherita Peak, 5,109 metres.

Three weeks of open ocean from Las Palmas to Saint Lucia, in a crew of eight. You stand watch day and night, with Koen and two professional skippers on board.