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*New Destination* Level 1 - Finland

Polar Experience guide Manu Poudelet has customised a unique Level 1 expedition for our novice explorers. Finland's ..

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..

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..

Day 7 - Solar Activity

Nature's splendour continues to entertain and inspire our expedition team as they meander along the Arctic Circle Trai..

Day 6 - Renewed Energy

One pattern that our expedition team brought with them to Greenland is the concept that Sunday should represent rest. ..

Day 4 - Reorganisation

Day 4 of our Arctic Circle Trail Expedition found our team at an organisational crossroads. A key component of any gr..

Day 2 - Steady Progress

Steady progress was made yesterday by our Arctic Circle Trail expedition team. Brecht called this morning to report a..

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 ..

Day 1 - They're off!

At 10:30 local time, our Arctic Circle Trail expedition team departed Kangerlussuaq, thus signalling the start of Day..

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..

Arctic Circle Trail with Brecht - final preparations

Exactly two weeks from today, Brecht..

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..

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..

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..

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..

Greenland Season Wrap-up

Our Greenland West to East Traverse ended successfully this week, albeit with some interesting travel logistics followi..

Expedition Complete!

Our Greenland Traverse expedition team was successfully picked up from the ice cap today at 12:00 local time and safe..

Update - Pickup postponed

Our team will be spending one more night on the ice in their final campsite. Unfortunately, today's weather conditio..

Day 29 - 👣 Final Steps

Brecht, Pierre, José-Luis and Olivier are beginning their final day of progression on their amazing Greenland icecap ..

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..

Day 21 - Cold Nights

The contrast between our Belgian base camp (which is currently bathed in a sun-drenched vibrant springtime bloom) and..

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..

Day 16 - Fickle Winds

Our team members find themselves now performing under true polar conditions in the middle of the Greenland ice cap. ..

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..

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..

Days 7 & 8 - Weekend Warriors

Brecht continues to share steady positive messages from the Greenland ice cap. The weather on Friday was tricky due ..

Day 5 sliding into Day 6 - Opportunity

Our accurate weather forecast yesterday showed strong headwinds throughout the day and these conditions indeed materi..

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..

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..

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..

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..

Polar Experience in bloom

Springtime is buzzing at Polar Experience with various activities both on and off the ice. Our Polar Experience guid..

Greenland - Arctic Circle Trail

Our Polar Experience guide team has wrapped up an intensely beautiful Arctic Circle Trail Expedition in Sisimiut, Greenl..

Soaring into a new season 🪁

Our Polar Experience guides are in vibrant motion with two ambitious private groups in both Norway and Greenland. Mik..

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugura..

Norway Cold Training

Our Polar Experience guide team has been working diligently behind the scenes for the past year on a very special "unde..

Our Polar Experience / Expeditions Unlimited team is enjoying our tropical Northern Hemisphere summer to the fullest. Th..

Corporate Inspiration

Dixie and I began our corporate interventions in 1998 due to a serendipitous meeting at a Belgian cultural center. D..

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 ..

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..

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...

Day 4 - Steady Advance

Our team in Greenland continues with its steady advance along the Arctic Circle Trail. Today they are pushing ahead t..

Day 2 - Solid progress

This very strong team pocketed another 21 kilometres of progress today under warm temperatures that rose to 0°C. Thei..

Day 1 - Departure from Kangerlussuaq

At approximately 09:00 this morning, Manu and his team began their Arctic Circle Trail Expedition. They first assembled..

Our Arctic Circle Trail Expedition participants - Olivier, Jean-Luc, Leo, Thomas, Damien, Jürgen and Diego - landed in ..

Greenland - Arctic Circle Trail

Our Polar Experience guide Manu Poudelet is already installed in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland where he awaits the arrival ..

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..

Days 4 & 5 - Leads & Breezes

This weekend our Lake Baikal Expedition team experienced a few interesting challenges during their daily progression. Y..

Day 3 - Sublime

This short update from our Lake Baikal Expedition sums up Day 3 in one word: sublime! The weather was gorgeous, progr..

Day 2 - Steady Progress

Brecht made the wise decision to allow our team to sleep a bit late this morning. Yesterday's strong start, combined ..

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