Media http://www.mikehorn.com Media News Feed Horn climbs 3rd 8'000m summit Wed, 21 Jul 10 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=305 READ LATEST PRESS ARTICLES...

]]> Broad Peak - summit attempt Sun, 18 Jul 10 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=303 17.07.2010 - Pakistan. At 2am local time Pakistan, South African Explorer Mike Horn and Swiss mountain guide/alpinist Köbi Reichen reach the summit of Broad Peak without the use of additional...

]]> Karma Konsum 2010 Wed, 07 Jul 10 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=288 Karma Konsum 2010 – ‘A new spirit in business.

Have you ever heard about LOHAS? Maybe you are one without knowing it. LOHAS stands for 'Lifestyle of health and sustainability' and describes...

]]> YEP 5 Himalaya Expedition Day 15 Tue, 15 Jun 10 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=266 MIKE HORN AND YOUNG EXPLORERS SUMMIT AND NAME UNKNOWN HIMALAYAN PEAK !

14th of June 2010: Mike Horn's Team leads Pangaea's Young Explorers to a victorious summit of an unknown peak at just...

]]> Press conference in Islamabad Fri, 04 Jun 10 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=248 Great interest was shown to the group of international youths who joined Mike and his experienced team in Islamabad on the 1st of June 2010.

Pangaea's slogan EXPLORE - LEARN - ACT is the...

]]> YEP's launch into the media Mon, 24 May 10 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=241 Young Explorer Basil Tan who just returned to Singapore after completing the Selection Camp in Switzerland is reaching out to the media and passing on the Pangaea message to the world.

]]> Trek Magazine Tue, 18 May 10 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=240 24 hours with Mike Horn and the young Explorers on the Matterhorn Glacier.

Read about it here....

]]> Himalayan Selection Camp Day 11 Wed, 12 May 10 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=236 It was a hard decision for the Mike Horn Team.The Himalaya Young Explorers have been selected !

Congratulations to the following YOUNG EXPLORER`S selected to join Mike Horn for the Himalaya...

]]> YEP Selection Camp starts today! Sun, 02 May 10 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=226 MIke Horn is ready to greet the new group of Young Explorers as they arrive in the small swiss village of Château-d'Oex today. The 16 young explorers will be coming from all corners of the...

]]> Mike in Asia Thu, 15 Apr 10 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=218 On the 14th of April, Mike was invited to visit Malaysia's Chief District Minister of Sabah, Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman at Kota Kinabalu, the state capital of Sabah.

Talks were had about...

]]> Pangaea Expedition thanked at 2009 Johannesburg City Parks Award Thu, 08 Apr 10 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=217 COPESSA was honored with the the 2009 Johannesburg City Parks Chairperson`s Recognition Award under the "Youth-based Greening Organization in Joburg" category. The glitz-filled awards ceremony...

]]> YEP Kerstin Doerner on KI.KA Live Fri, 12 Mar 10 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=212 Kerstin Doerner tells her story on KI.KA Live
 
]]> Mike helps India to win test match! Sun, 21 Feb 10 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=201 Just 72 hours before the match Mike Horn blew the Indian cricket team away with an outstanding speech. A speech that was in the end, able to help the team reach their goal, to win the test...

]]> Why not follow a YEP? Sun, 10 Jan 10 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=173 Russian candidate Helena Kiseleva joined the Pangaea Young Explorer Program  (YEP) in Switzerland in November 2009. Ever since her return to Russia she has created great media...

]]> E-MOBILITY DAY FOR MERCEDES-BENZ Sat, 05 Dec 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=140 "Our mobility concept is based on an integrated solution combining electric cars suitable for everyday use and the appropriate charging infrastructure. In this way we are decisively improving...

]]> Mike rings from Port Klang Fri, 27 Nov 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=130 Mike rings from the Port of Klang situated a little north of Kuala Lumpur. He has been very busy doing renovations on Pangaea. "We are removing a structure from the front deck of the boat. It...

]]> Day 17 YEP in Borneo Wed, 11 Nov 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=108 With those inspiring words Mike said goodbye to Pangaea’s newest Young Explorers as a successful Borneo programme came to a close in Miri, Sarawak. The YEPs have now returned to their homes...

]]> Day 13 - 15 YEP in Borneo Mon, 09 Nov 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=107 Friday was largely swallowed by bureaucracy – even though we’re still in Malaysia, we’ve crossed into Sarawak, requiring immigration and passport checks, which took a lot of taxi rides and...

]]> Day 13 YEP in Borneo Fri, 06 Nov 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=106 However, sharing the space with the nine Young Explorers are several crew members needed to sail such a ship (skipper, engineer and sailors), as well as the Mike Horn team, which includes...

]]> Day 12 YEP in Borneo Thu, 05 Nov 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=105 There were anxious phone calls yesterday from the organisers of the event, wanting to make sure we would arrive on time. Yesterday was a sailing day as we journeyed towards the capital – but...

]]> Day 10 & 11 YEP in Borneo Tue, 03 Nov 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=104 It was a rough swim from for the youngsters, battling the waves as they swam from rock to rock around the headland, but it was an excellent way to celebrate their journey around this northern...

]]> Day 9 YEP in Borneo Mon, 02 Nov 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=102 Lankayan Island, where we’ve been anchored for the past two nights, is the centre of the Sugud Islands Marine Conservation Area (Simca), and an important part of their work is the protection of...

]]> Day 8 YEP in Borneo Sun, 01 Nov 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=101 Mike, as usual, looks at life from a slightly different angle, which is why the noon-day heat saw the Young Explorers building a metal aircraft on Pangaea’s aft deck – with welding help from...

]]> Day 7 YEP in Borneo Sat, 31 Oct 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=100 We sailed away from Sandakan yesterday afternoon, bound for the Turtle Island reserve about 40 kilometres north of the town. Arriving shortly before six, we were too late to get permits, so...

]]> Day 6 YEP in Borneo Fri, 30 Oct 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=99 We returned to the Sepilok Orang-utan Sanctuary outside Sandakan today, and were privileged to be allowed into the rehabilitation area and the nursery, to watch these orphaned animals being...

]]> Day 5 YEP in Borneo Thu, 29 Oct 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=98 It started raining in the night and continued into the afternoon – this is the start of the monsoon season, after all. So it was a damp group that hailed a handful of taxis this morning and...

]]> Day 4 YEP in Borneo Wed, 28 Oct 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=97 We spent the night and today sailing for Sandakan on the north-eastern tip of Borneo, with two dive stops on different reefs to practise the survey technique, which involves counting and noting...

]]> Day 3 YEP in Borneo Tue, 27 Oct 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=96 After breakfast Mabul Island was left behind and a course set for Sipadan, with the Young Explorers getting their first taste of hoisting the sails, learning the difference between halyards and...

]]> Day 2 YEP in Borneo Mon, 26 Oct 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=109 A palm-fringed island across a turquoise sea, with chalets on stilts dotted along the shore. And we had our first dive! There was a measure of (fairly organised) pandemonium getting eight YEPs,...

]]> Arrival of the YEP in Borneo Sun, 25 Oct 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=95 But almost immediately Mike had them back on shore for their first challenge: to visit the local fruit market in steamy downtown Tawau, to buy last-minute provisions for the journey. Armed with...

]]> Pangaea Arrives in Singapore ! Fri, 02 Oct 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=4 Mike calls the evening of the 8th to say that Pangaea and her crew have arrived safely in Singapore harbour. Only the following morning of the 9th will they be able to enter into the ONE°15...

]]> Solomon Islands Sanitation Project Tue, 25 Aug 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=128 Awakening early the following day, ready for the heat and a long walk in the island’s tropical bush, Mike and the team set off to a village called New Tenabuti. Four hours later after a climb...

]]> Update from the Expedition Centre Tue, 11 Aug 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=127
The jury finally decided that the following candidates will join Mike Horn in Indonesia in October:

Garrett Celestine, 15, USA
Eugenie Guillaume, 18, France
Simon Havas, 15, Czech...

]]> Borneo Selection Camp: Day 11 Wed, 05 Aug 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=126 Hannes Van Eynde, 17, Belgium
All good things come to an end...

And unfortunately today will be the end for us on this amazing selection camp ! However our engagement for the project...

]]> Borneo Selection Camp: Day 10 Tue, 04 Aug 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=125 Rodrigo Neves Steinman, 16, Brazil

After five hours of sleeping in the tents that we had to put up, the alarm rang and it was time to wake up. The raid was about to continue. We put down...

]]> Borneo Selection Camp: Day 9 Mon, 03 Aug 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=124 Garrett Celestin, 15, USA

Hector Prats L Castro, 16, Spain

Soledad Escribano, 19, Argentina

The first day of the raid!

We began at 12:00, after interviews and a big lunch....

]]> Borneo Selection Camp: Day 7 Sat, 01 Aug 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=123 by Jose Baz, 20, Lebanon by Eugénie Guillaume, 18, France

Waking up 6.30 in the morning is quite sweet, but i can assure that biking first thing in the morning is the best feeling ever....

]]> Borneo Selection Camp: Day 6 Fri, 31 Jul 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=122 Joyce Xiaoxi Wang, 16, China

Garrett Celestin, 15, USA

Kerstin Dörner, 18, Germany

Another great day at the young explorers’ training camp. Like every morning, we woke up really...

]]> Borneo Selection Camp: Day 5 Thu, 30 Jul 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=121 by Michelle Nay, 18, Switzerland Rodrigo Neves Steinman, 16, Brazil

Today morning exercise was mountain biking. It was quite hard especially for the people that are not that used to the...

]]> Borneo Selection Camp: Day 4 Wed, 29 Jul 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=120 by Eugénie Guillaume, 18, France

by DongKyun Seo, 20, South Korea

by Hector Prats L Castro, 16, Spain

There is only one word to describe this 4th day in Switzerland: AMAZING!
]]> Borneo Selection Camp: Day 3 Tue, 28 Jul 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=119 by Daniel Kotzé, 20, South Africa

Today was set to be the first day of being active and it did not disappoint. We got up early to have a short morning jog downhill to a jungle gym. We did...

]]> Borneo Selection Camp: Day 2 Mon, 27 Jul 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=118 July 27th, 2009
by Tim Rohner, 17, Switzerland

Today was just amazing ! In the morning, we got up at about 6 o’clock, had a big breakfast and then headed straight to the center of Groupe...

]]> Borneo Selection Camp: Day 1 Sun, 26 Jul 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=117 This signifies the start of a 10 day selection camp in which our Young Explorers will go through an assessment to see who, of the 15 candidates, will continue further and meet Mike Horn on the...

]]> Sailing Sydney to Cairns Mon, 13 Jul 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=116 "During the first two days we had 30-40 knots of wind and then it became calm. For the rest of the voyage we had 15 knots southwesterlies so were getting a great push from behind. We were...

]]> Pangaea arrives in Sydney Sat, 27 Jun 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=115 'It was a great trip ' says Mike. 'We hit a storm just after leaving Auckland and were shaken around a little. The winds soon subsided after a few days and the rest of the trip was relatively...

]]> Expedition Stop Auckland Sun, 21 Jun 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=114 The last week has had a jam packed schedule of visits to the boat, from press to school groups, from maintenance to fix-it men, and of course family and relatives of Mike's New Zealand born...

]]> Mike cycles in New Zealand Wed, 10 Jun 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=113 Mails of thanks have come flooding in to thank Mike and his team for the amazing time and experience that they shared with them.

The Fiordlands offered to all the people present on Pangaea...

]]> En Route to New Zealand Wed, 29 Apr 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=112 Mike calls at 0700hrs GMT. "It's been good going until now! The seas have been pretty rough with strong winds and high swells, but this is very typical of the Southern Ocean.

We are now at...

]]> Kerguelen Islands Call Mon, 20 Apr 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=94 “We were happy to arrive safely at Kergelen Island,” says Mike. “The last few days of sailing were extremely rough. We now have first hand experience of the 'Screaming 50’s', as we experienced...

]]> Storm Off Kerguelen Island Fri, 17 Apr 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=93 Mike reports, " We are moving 30° downwind and are protecting ourselves from huge breaking waves. For the last 11 hours Pangaea has been obliged to run with the wind. All sails are down and our...

]]> Crozet Island Mon, 13 Apr 09 00:00:00 +0200 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=92 One of 20 small, mountainous islands of French territory situated South in the Indian Ocean (S 46°25' E 05° 152'). The island is uninhabited except for a scientific base and it's staff.
]]> Arrival in Cape Town Tue, 10 Mar 09 00:00:00 +0100 /en/pangaea/news/?displaynews=89 As scheduled, Pangaea, Mike and her crew arrive in Cape Town after the 3'200nm crossing of the Atlantic from Brasil. It's around 11 am, the sun is shining and friends and family are there to...

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