Blog by Ann Kathrin & Livio The raid started with a bang at 12 noon on Monday. The two teams were given the necessary maps and coordinates of the checkpoints. We then quickly went about marking the coordinates on the map and getting the bearings for each point. Our team had a really good start, […]
Day 8 01.10.2011 Blog by Dan & Aya This morning began with the infamous YEP church run, where a relay race around ‘Church Hill’ was held between the YEPs of our Selection Camp and the visiting YEPs. It was very competitive, but in the end the YEP alumni took the win. For the rest of […]
Blog written by Jermy Today we started the day with an amazing mountainbiking tour. We did it in a place where the 1997 downhill biking world championships took place, it was very technical but everyone did it very well.Then we had to edit the videos that we did during this week, the goal of this […]
Today we woke up to a day of adventure. Breakfast was closely followed by a trip to Lusanne on Lake Geneva for a sailing-packed day. The 2 hour drive was almost as fun as the rest of the day due to the ‘built-in iPod’, AKA Dan, who kept an upbeat guitar rythm going the entire […]
Blog by Michal and Jule 16 really cool mountain bikes were waiting for us when we met in front of the hotel at seven o'clock this morning. The morning exercise was mountain biking today! We were split up into two groups and started moving. There were some awesome downhills and some fair uphills. We couldn't […]
Blog written by Sylvia Today started with the famous churchrun: five times up the hill and around it as fast as we could. This was followed by the Mayo Clinic Test where we should run as fast and long as we could to reach our peak performance and measure the oxygen we use. It was […]
Day3 – 27.09.2011 Blog written by Lavanya and Livio The excitement at Château-d’oex has been building up. Day 3 at the USA selection camp kick-started with the YEPs going for a quick run to the park. The jog was followed by a couple of fitness exercises and stretches. Some exercises were rigorous but it was […]
26 September 2011 By Gregory Antono Still bursting with excitement about our arrival in Château-d’Oex, day two began with our very first morning exercise at 7am. Everyone from the different timezones forgot about the jetlag and was ready to rumble. Jogging up the rolling hills, some of us found it challenging getting used to the […]
Sept.25 – Day 1: Blog written by Mario Löscher After my plane took off today I felt a tear drop going down my eye because this flight was the real beginning of the camp for me. When I arrived in Geneva, Ravyna, Lavynja, Michal and Rick where still waiting for me. After Anne also arrived […]
September 17, 2011 written by Saskia Bauer (Pangaea Magnetic North Pole Expedition YEP) After there has already been one YEP-Meeting in Stuttgart last year, this was the second time for Young Explorers from all over Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France to spend a fun and active day together. These meetings are normally organized to see […]