Mike Horn
See also: Horn
It is in 1966, with Johannesburg (South Africa) that Mike Horn is born. After studies of social sciences at the university, it moves in Suisse, with Castle-with Œx. It meets there Cathy which will become his wife whereas it is guide for a company of Rafting. This man who likes the adventure, the risk and which learned how to survive under extreme conditions has already full with dreams in the head.
In 1997, he undertakes his first great forwarding, the descent of the the Amazon in Hydrospeed. Only during a year and half, it will know all kinds of adventures. On an idea of Mick Régnier of the wind agency he undertakes Latitude 0: the round the world tour by the equator, with foot with bicycle and in boat, 40.000 km which it will traverse of June 1999 in October 2000.
In 2002, it launches out in the turn of the sphere by the polar circle, Arktos forwarding. During a preliminary forwarding (to reach the North pole) for its preparation for Arktos forwarding, it is constrained with the abandonment due to gelures to the hands. But it makes a success of finally its principal forwarding, the round the world tour while following the polar circle to feet, bicycle, kayak, sailing ship, ski and ski tractor drawn by kite, on October 21st, 2004. This forwarding gave place to a film, Arktos: The voyage interior of Mike Horn , carried out and produced by White Raphaël.
During the winter 2006, his/her friend Borge Ousland chooses it for a new forwarding with the north pole. They spent two months to carry out this tour of 1.000 km, almost completely in the darkness, on mobile ice floes, and without any possibility of supply or help.
Its next voyage is being prepared. It is about a round the world tour by the seven continents and always without any motorized means of transport. The departure for this voyage three years is envisaged in March 2008.
Its principal exploits
- 2007 : Rise of the Gasherbrum I (8 068 m) and Gasherbrum II (8 035 m) in the Himalayas
- 2006: north pole of night with Borge Ousland.
- 2005: Canadian Far North with its wife and her two daughters, during the summer.
- 2002-2004: Arktos, the round the world tour while following the Arctic Circle.
- 1999-2000: Latitude Zero, tower of the Earth while following the line of the Ecuador.
- 1997: Descent of the the Amazon in hydrospeed without assistance.
- 1995: World records of descent of cascade in hydrospeed.
- 1991: Forwarding in parapente in the Andes cordillera to the Peru.
Catalog of films
- Arktos: The voyage interior of Mike Horn , carried out and produced by White Raphaël
External bonds
- Web site of Mike Horn
- Forwarding North Pole 2006