BYLOT ISLAND EXPEDITION

As soon as Mike Horn's daughters became old enough to enjoy the taste of adventure and had shown an interest to share in the adventure with their Dad Mike Horn decided to take them on an expedition. The family crossed Bylot Island on skis. Bylot Island is in the Canadian far North and is a nature reserve where mildest temperatures never exceed five degrees centigrade under zero, even during summer, an island which is a whole ice field, where the glacial rivers and crevasses request great resistance and constant attention. Under such conditions, Annika (twelve years old) and Jessica (eleven years old) had their first real experience of the far North. Mike was able to share his passion with his daughters teaching them about the environment and many other important lessons that will stay with them during their whole life. They learnt about rigor and tenacity and also about their father’s wisdom which consists in never acting against the elements but adapting to them, paying attention to all the details, knowing how to watch the nature and not to fall into its traps.

The family shared the warm camps on the ice field, and Mike Horn achieved what he wanted - to pass on to his daughters what his own experience had made him understand.

Bylot Expedition