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Jakub Karp

16/01/2021

16/01/2021

Dzisiaj o 17.00 (13.00 czasu polskiego), 16 stycznia, nepalski zespół dokonał pierwszego w historii zimowego wejścia na K2 (8611 m). Był to ostatni niezdobyty zimą ośmiotysięcznik. Zimowe zdobywanie K2, drugiej co do wysokości góry Ziemi, [...]

15/01/2021

The combined effort from the teams made some remarkable progress this afternoon. As per the mega plan, big well done to our team lead by Mingma G with Mingma David Sherpa, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa and Sona Sherpa (SST) for successfully fixing lines up to Camp 4 at 7800m, The Highest Altitude Ever Gained at K2 in Winter !

Later today, I will be leading the fixing team to the summit. We hope to stand on the summit together. 🙏🏼🙌🏼

Stay tuned for more updates !

03/03/2020

I did it! Today at 6:15 pm I reached the Öndverdarnes cape. After 36 days and 800 km first solo winter crossing from east to west Iceland has been completed! My dream came true. Thank you all for following my adventure and supporting me in difficult moments. For sure there will be time for conclusions but now I’ll try to have some rest.



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25/02/2020

23/02/2020

11/02/2020

Oto Anula Jochym, ale przecież czytelnikom WIOSŁA nie trzeba jej przestawiać. Dziś wylatuje do Katanii, by stamtąd rozpocząć samotne opłynięcie kajakiem Sycylii – największej wyspy Morza Śródziemnego! Linia brzegowa Sycylii liczy około 900 km. Anula daje sobie miesiąc na opłynięcie wyspy. Wg wszelkich przypuszczeń, żaden z obywateli Polski nie opłynął dotychczas samotnie Sycylii kajakiem.
Wyprawę można śledzić na blogach Anuli: https://songpath.wordpress.com/ - po polsku, https://seaunknown.wordpress.com/ - po angielsku, na Instagramie i FB Sea Unknown. My także będziemy informować o przebiegu wyprawy. Trzymamy kciuki!

08/02/2020

Dzisiaj rano bazę pod Broad Peakiem opuścili Lotta Hintsa i Don Bowie. Śmigłowiec zabrał dwójkę do Skardu. Tym samym dalszą akcję Denis Urubko będzie prowadził samotnie.

26/01/2020

This week the first meeting of the team for the project “The catamaran Nova crossing the oceans on solar energy” took place in UK. The international team approved a progress schedule for this year. From January to May 2020 the construction of the Fedor Konyukhov catamaran’s hull will take plac...

24/01/2020

Ekstremalne warunki i trudna do przewidzenia pogoda sprawiają, że zimą w najwyższych górach świata jest mniej turystów, a popularne latem tzw. “drogi normalne” na ośmiotysięczniki stają się wyzwaniem dla najbardziej doświadczonych himalaistów. Zima k**i, co [...]

18/01/2020

Simone Moro i Tamara Lunger wreszcie pokonali lodowiec, który okazał się poważną przeszkodą w drodze na Gasherbrum I.

18/01/2020

06/01/2020

3. P***k dotarł samotnie na Biegun Południowy.
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Samotnie - bez wsparcia - z zewnątrz. Jacek Libucha.

02/01/2020

Zimowa kampania rozpoczęta. Na Mount Evereście, Broad Beaku i Gasherbrumach już działają wspinacze żądni mroźnych wrażeń.

30/12/2019

29/12/2019

Right when most assumed that his expedition was cancelled, Mingma Gyalje Sherpa (Mingma G for short)

20/12/2019

В 2021 – 2022 годах Фёдор Конюхов планирует совершить первые в истории одиночные переходы Атлантического и Тихого океанов на катамаране на солнечной энергии. В рамках...

11/12/2019

Expedition Update 47: Although my body is onboard Lance, back in a safe and secure environment, my mind is still on the ice wandering around the ice floes, open water, pressure ridges and darkness, in a constant state of trying to understand that it’s nearly all done and soon time to return back home.

I’m not sleeping as well as I did on the ice due to the lack of fatigue, I feel drained and walk around like a zombie with no purpose. This expedition has taken so much from us and even though I heal fast, I know it will take a while to get myself together again. Both and I have pushed our limitations far beyond what we could ever imagine.

I feel very privileged to have received all your words of encouragement. It was your support and energy that carried Borge and I to the end. Thanks to my team, family and friends for all the sleepless nights of worries and work invested in this project. You have done the hard miles and I the easy ones.

It’s not over yet though, we have been stuck in the ice for 4 days now and hope for the ice to release its grip on us so we can get back on Pangaea and sail back home. It has been a battle from the start, until the very end, but I would not want it any other way.

What I have lived through and experienced has added value to my life, the only value I need to exist, value I can never lose, value that lives inside myself and that I can carry with me for the rest of my life.

10/12/2019

Contact was lost about one and a half hours after take-off.

10/12/2019

Expedition Update 46: Looks like the Arctic just doesn’t want to let us go! We’ve been on Lance for two days now trying to backtrack our way out of the ice to meet up with Pangaea, but we are completely stuck. Although inconvenient, this isn’t an unusual occurrence in the Arctic ocean. Since Lance has been waiting for us in the ice, almost immobile, for over a week now, the lead it had opened up behind them, closed in now making it more difficult for us to navigate back out.

At this stage, we are not too worried about staying stuck, even though I am really looking forward to meeting up with my crew on Pangaea. As the ice moves quickly and constantly in the Arctic, I am confident that with this team of experts onboard, that we will get out of here in no time. If by Friday, we haven’t moved yet, a storm is predicted to come in, which I am sure will help us maneuver our way out of the ice.

In the meantime and I are still resting and recuperating as haven’t quite fully transitioned back to “the real world” yet. In my many years of exploration, the end of adventures are always a bit strange and difficult to deal with. It takes time to switch from survival mode to a mode where one can be entirely relaxed again. That being said, for explorers like Borge and I, something we manage quite well is our ability to adapt. So in a matter of days, I am sure that we should be back on track and ready to look back at the incredible experience we just lived and share our story with the world.

10/12/2019

Sezon wypraw polarbych na Antarktydzie.

Some more expeditions taking place along with more information on Geoff Wilson can be found here.

https://explorersweb.com/2019/11/11/antarctica-2019-2020-expeditions-to-watch/

08/12/2019

Expedition Update 45: We made it!!! We made it to Lance with our last day of food ration. It was an amazing arrival! From far we could see the lights of Lance and as we were skiing towards it, the lights got bigger and bigger and eventually we just stepped off the ice and onto it boat and the rest was history!

The last 12 km were tough, we were doing about 2-3km/hour. We were really moving at a slow pace but remaining constant. Eventually when we managed to get onto boat, and all of a sudden we felt totally relaxed. We were welcomed with a great meal of spinach soup, steak and chocolate fondant and ice cream. Just an amazing welcome!

We are feeling exhausted and very tired mentally and physically right now. But as we stepped onto the boat, our bodies could switch off survival mode and we were relieved of all stress. After eating we took a long shower and the hot water against our skin felt incredible! We are now going to sleep well and rest while we make our way back to Norway.

As for Lance, we are currently stuck in the ice but trying to make our way out of it! And once we get out, we will be heading south and meeting up with Pangaea in a matter of days!

photo: Jørgen Braastad/copyright VG»

08/12/2019

Expedition update 44: At approximately midnight last night, Pangaea received a call from the Lance to announce that Mike, , and finally made it back to the boat safe & sound. We will be posting a more detailed update once we get more information, but for now it is time to let our two heroes get a well deserved rest and recover from the incredible feat they just accomplished!
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06/12/2019

Expedition Update 42 : After getting an update from Mike & Børge, Aleksander and Bengt and the Lance, we finally have a clear update on the current situation to share with you.

Yesterday, adamant to meet up with the two Norwegian explorers, Mike and gave it their all! After only 4 hours of sleep they set off into the darkness as the wind slowly began picking up. A storm was on its way and they wanted to make as much progress towards and before being blocked by the incoming storm. After 11 hours of nonstop walking, they reached a point where they were only 7km apart from each other, so they decided to walk another hour towards them to make that distance even shorter.

On their side, Aleksander and Bengt were also making steady progress since they first started walking on Tuesday night. Freshly introduced to the harsh environment and put to the test by the open water leads, the duo of Norwegian explorers are being extra cautious to avoid making any mistakes.

After approximately 25km progress on each side towards one another, the pairs of explorers now find themselves just 3km apart, separated by a large open water lead. The storm now blowing at its strongest, the two pairs have decided to patiently wait on each side of the lead for the wind to calm down before Mike & Borge attempt their crossing.

We hope that by the end of the day, the 4 explorers will be reunited! In the meantime, Lance has been trying to push its way closer towards the explorers to decrease their homerun.

We hope to have some good news to share with you in the next hours.

06/12/2019

The Norwegian-South African duo are tired and hungry after trekking hundreds of miles.

30/11/2019

Expedition Update 36: Another couple of intense days on the ice. The temperatures are dropping day by day and have now reached as low as -40 C. Extra reason for us to wrap up this expedition and head back home. The positive drift has slowed down but the winds from the north are still helping us progress a couple kilometres a day, which at this stage is extremely helpful.

Right now we have two different options to finish this expedition:

1. Get down south as quickly as possible with the food that we have left if we want to fulfil our hopes of being picked up by boat as we had originally planned.

2. If we do not make sufficient progress, a helicopter will have to be called in…but right now, we are ruling out this option in order to fully focus our remaining energy on the final sprint that is required to pass the finish line.

It is almost as if and I have subconsciously been saving some extra energy just in case we found ourselves in the situation we currently find ourselves in. Just one week ago, we never even imagined we would be making 30km progress in a day during our last week. The body is full of surprises, when you think you have reached your limits, turns out something inside you makes you push them further…and even further!

One thing is sure, we want to leave the arctic the way we arrived, that is by boat. But we must also make sure to take into account the risks that this endeavour involves…due to the cold temperatures, we spend a lot of time checking the conditions of our frostbites. As soon as we think we are losing sensation in our extremities, we stop, set up the tent and warm ourselves up until we are ready to head out again.

As a result, we have decided to increase the number of walking hours per day just to give ourselves more time to warm up, while making the necessary progress to reach our goal (82 degrees north) which we hope to achieve before our food runs out. Now, we currently find ourselves at 83deg41’, which means we still need to cover over 150km to make it to a position where the boat has its best chances of picking us up.

One more week of expedition to go, the race against time officially begins...wish us luck!

25/11/2019

Expedition Update 34: Safe to say that I’ve had easier weekends in my life as an explorer. After last week’s endless obstacles and difficulties, and I are grateful to start the new week with a fresh mindset. Today, despite our sores (as seen on this photo), we are feeling tired but unstoppable…we know the end is near, so now, we must gather up the strength we have left, and fight to get there.
What better way to start the week than with a massive storm?! We therefore had no choice but to set camp and wait for the chaos to pass before we can confidently venture outside again. Maybe this is a blessing in disguise in some weird way…our bodies were really in need of some rest after the physical and emotion exhaustion we went through over the weekend.
Although we have rarely been in such a bad storm, the bright and uplifting side is this! Finally the wind is in our favour pushing us towards the south, rather than back to the north. This positive news certainly gave us an energy boost, and the confidence that maybe we will be able to end this expedition the way we have initially planned.
This unexpected turn of events must be due to all the positive vibes you all have been sending our way. and have been updating me with your messages of support and I can only admit that this has been giving us the kick of energy we needed.
It is a hostile world up here…and the constant unstable conditions have made it quite clear that we are not welcome up here. In some twisted way, I ask myself if nature has been taking it out on us because of the manner in which we humans have been treating and respecting our planet…one thing is certain, something is obviously not quite right.
With just over one week of food rations left, we are carefully planning each and every next step. We are longing to get home, but there is no giving up…we are here to fight until the very end!
Thank you all for your heart-warming support, we will be keeping you closely updated!