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2024-08-25
*New Destination* Level 1 - Finland
Polar Experience guide Manu Poudelet has customised a unique Level 1 expedition for our novice explorers. Finland's ..
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2024-05-30
Your Polar Experience Level
"What's my expedition level?" This is a normal and frequent question that our team receives from a wide variety of e..
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2024-03-06
Day 9 - Arrival in Sisimiut
Welcome to Sisimiut, Marc, Simon, Jérôme and Brecht! CONGRATULATIONS! It took our very strong team just 9 days to t..
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2024-03-04
Day 7 - Solar Activity
Nature's splendour continues to entertain and inspire our expedition team as they meander along the Arctic Circle Trai..
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2024-03-03
Day 6 - Renewed Energy
One pattern that our expedition team brought with them to Greenland is the concept that Sunday should represent rest. ..
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2024-03-02
Day 4 - Reorganisation
Day 4 of our Arctic Circle Trail Expedition found our team at an organisational crossroads. A key component of any gr..
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2024-02-29
Day 2 - Steady Progress
Steady progress was made yesterday by our Arctic Circle Trail expedition team. Brecht called this morning to report a..
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2024-02-28
Night 1 Update - Faint Aurora
At 7:40 (Greenland local time) this morning we had a brief phone call from Brecht who reported that the first day and ..
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2024-02-27
Day 1 - They're off!
At 10:30 local time, our Arctic Circle Trail expedition team departed Kangerlussuaq, thus signalling the start of Day..
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2024-02-26
Pre-Departure in Kangerlussuaq
A special excitement always hangs in the air when a team arrives in Greenland for the start of an expedition, and tod..
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2024-02-13
Arctic Circle Trail with Brecht - final preparations
Exactly two weeks from today, Brecht..
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2024-01-14
Greenland - Arctic Circle Trail 2024
Our Belgian followers are currently able to enjoy our 2023 Arctic Circle Trail Expedition featured on Season 1 of the..
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2023-12-31
Happy New Year from your Polar Experience team!
Our Polar Experience team wrapped up an eventful 2023 with the launch of "De Expeditie" in December. The 8-episode pr..
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2023-11-05
Polar Experience Guides Ready for New Season
Our Polar Experience guide team members have spent the past few months staying sharp for the new polar season on our d..
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2023-09-14
New Polar Experience Training Guide
We're very proud to welcome Olivier Bourcet to our Polar Experience guide team as the training coordinator for our Fr..
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2023-06-09
Greenland Season Wrap-up
Our Greenland West to East Traverse ended successfully this week, albeit with some interesting travel logistics followi..
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2023-06-06
Expedition Complete!
Our Greenland Traverse expedition team was successfully picked up from the ice cap today at 12:00 local time and safe..
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2023-06-05
Update - Pickup postponed
Our team will be spending one more night on the ice in their final campsite. Unfortunately, today's weather conditio..
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2023-06-04
Day 29 - 👣 Final Steps
Brecht, Pierre, José-Luis and Olivier are beginning their final day of progression on their amazing Greenland icecap ..
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2023-05-30
Day 24 - Savouring each moment
Not many people can claim to have enjoyed a picnic on the Greenland ice cap, but our team can now add this uniquely s..
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2023-05-27
Day 21 - Cold Nights
The contrast between our Belgian base camp (which is currently bathed in a sun-drenched vibrant springtime bloom) and..
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2023-05-25
Day 19 - Renewed Energy
After two long days stuck in their tents, our intrepid team burst back into action yesterday. As soon as the winds f..
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2023-05-22
Day 16 - Fickle Winds
Our team members find themselves now performing under true polar conditions in the middle of the Greenland ice cap. ..
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2023-05-19
Day 13 - Blowing past DYE 2
It was a short, sweet yet nonetheless impressive visit to the surreal DYE 2 site in the middle of an otherwise barren..
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2023-05-17
Day 11 - Days leading to DYE 2
The monotonous hours meandering across the Greenland Ice Cap have led our team to develop small motivational tricks to..
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2023-05-14
Days 7 & 8 - Weekend Warriors
Brecht continues to share steady positive messages from the Greenland ice cap. The weather on Friday was tricky due ..
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2023-05-12
Day 5 sliding into Day 6 - Opportunity
Our accurate weather forecast yesterday showed strong headwinds throughout the day and these conditions indeed materi..
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2023-05-10
Day 4 - Greenland Traverse - West to East
Our scheduled Iridium satellite phone call this morning arrived exactly at the minute of our planned update. Like ever..
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2023-05-09
Day 3 - "Another great day!"
Brecht texted in the wee hours of this morning: "Another great day! We're out of the icefall and more than 20 kilomet..
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2023-05-08
Day 2 - Ice Cap
What a difference a day makes! We received a brief update today from our Greenland West to East team that they are alr..
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2023-05-07
Day 1 - Greenland West to East Traverse
We have an expedition! Our Greenland West to East Traverse team, led by Polar Experience guide Brecht De Meulenaer, h..
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2023-05-06
Polar Experience in bloom
Springtime is buzzing at Polar Experience with various activities both on and off the ice. Our Polar Experience guid..
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2023-03-09
Greenland - Arctic Circle Trail
Our Polar Experience guide team has wrapped up an intensely beautiful Arctic Circle Trail Expedition in Sisimiut, Greenl..
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2023-02-24
Soaring into a new season 🪁
Our Polar Experience guides are in vibrant motion with two ambitious private groups in both Norway and Greenland. Mik..
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2022-12-15
Polar Baptism
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugura..
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2022-12-02
Norway Cold Training
Our Polar Experience guide team has been working diligently behind the scenes for the past year on a very special "unde..
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2022-08-23
New Season
Our Polar Experience / Expeditions Unlimited team is enjoying our tropical Northern Hemisphere summer to the fullest. Th..
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2022-03-29
Corporate Inspiration
Dixie and I began our corporate interventions in 1998 due to a serendipitous meeting at a Belgian cultural center. D..
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2022-03-08
Day 8 - It's a wrap! Congratulations!
After two long and extremely challenging final days on the Arctic Circle Trail, our successful team stepped back into ..
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2022-03-06
Day 6 - True Polar Adventurers
After spending time in huts the last two days, Manu called this evening from their new tent camp: N 67° 0.9' W 53 ° 2..
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2022-03-05
Day 5 - Wide Open Spaces
While it's all relative, our team experienced the height of luxury last night in a hut along the Arctic Circle Trail...
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2022-03-04
Day 4 - Steady Advance
Our team in Greenland continues with its steady advance along the Arctic Circle Trail. Today they are pushing ahead t..
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2022-03-02
Day 2 - Solid progress
This very strong team pocketed another 21 kilometres of progress today under warm temperatures that rose to 0°C. Thei..
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2022-03-01
Day 1 - Departure from Kangerlussuaq
At approximately 09:00 this morning, Manu and his team began their Arctic Circle Trail Expedition. They first assembled..
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2022-02-28
Kangerlussuaq
Our Arctic Circle Trail Expedition participants - Olivier, Jean-Luc, Leo, Thomas, Damien, Jürgen and Diego - landed in ..
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2022-02-27
Greenland - Arctic Circle Trail
Our Polar Experience guide Manu Poudelet is already installed in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland where he awaits the arrival ..
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2022-02-15
Day 7 - Bougouldeika
Warm congratulations are in order for Nessim, Max, Marc-Olivier and Brecht! At the end of Day 7, they arrived on the s..
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2022-02-13
Days 4 & 5 - Leads & Breezes
This weekend our Lake Baikal Expedition team experienced a few interesting challenges during their daily progression. Y..
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