LIVING ADVENTUROUSLY

A commitment to change and curiosity

Exploring the world means something different today than it did, say, 100 years ago when Ernest Shackleton ventured into the icy South Atlantic Ocean in a sailing boat. Now we have over 4,500 satellites swarming around us, their zoom capabilities transporting us to every far-flung corner of the world. We’re launching tourists into space, running marathons in Antarctica and getting stuck in human traffic on Mount Everest. Is there anything left to explore? What does it mean to live adventurously in the 21st century? And how could we become a new kind of explorer in the future?

For me, off-grid adventures are about being able to ‘disconnect’. Not necessarily from running water or the grid, but from the obvious, somewhat ingrained path. Being able to create a bit of distance, without a productivity meter, watch or plan. Get a bird’s-eye view. Rise above your own life. With that openness and wonder that we often leave behind in our childhood.

This book has become a collection of the places and encounters that have left the biggest impression on me. Along a breadcrumb trail from Canada to Antarctica, from Rwanda and Japan to Kyrgyzstan, it gives you insights into landscapes, cabins, living rooms and other ways of life. Come along for the ride, on foot or horseback, on a motorbike or in the hull of a ship. Because experiences are so much more valuable if you can share them with others: the anticipation, the beauty, the doubts, the confrontation. Told without any filter, and with as much appreciation for the beautiful as the slightly rougharound-the-edges parts.