From climbing Snowdon solo to competing in multiple regional and national championships, Nicolas Dewalque is a man on a mission and refuses to be bound by his visual impairment. His quest is to discover and create new experiences each day. What motivates you? I’m mostly motivated by the world around me and the prospect of discovering and creating something new each day. Training outside each day gives me the opportunity to connect with nature, and discovering the world is part…
“Reliable, helpful every time you need it and with many years of adventures together” – sounds like someone describing a close friend. It is, in fact, how many describe their Peli case, according to recent research conducted by Peli*, with a staggering 95% of respondents saying that they used their case for extreme protection. The way in which our cases are used are both resourceful and creative, with 56% using theirs as a step-up, a chair, a lunch table and…
“I’m a young Danish guy who picked up my first camera 4 years ago”, says Magnus, but his age is no measure when it comes to the fantastic content that he creates. From climbing Mount Fuji in “insane” weather conditions to spending months documenting beautiful Chile, there’s no adventure Magnus won’t conquer. What motivates you? I’m especially motivated by the people that I meet and by identifying the best places to shoot great pictures. The nice comments that I receive…
Fast-paced, exciting and always on the go: that’s how we’d describe the day to day life of Alejandro Ceresuela, a prominent photographer in the world of MotoGP. What motivates you? What motivates me most is to show my perception of the world of motorcycles through photography, to show how I see them and what they represent to me. What is a typical day like for you? My day of work on the circuits is quite routine. The moment I arrive,…
After spending growing amounts of time in nature with his camera by his side, Uros Podlogar realised his biggest passions in life: adventure and photography. Naturally, the two combined to form his profession and he now embarks on impressive adventures while travelling the world, all in the name of incredible visual content. What motivates you? I find motivation in extraordinary things that can be found in everyday life: the natural world and its breathtaking surprises, adventures, extreme locations and sports.…
Xenia and Tinu met on their biking adventures in South America in 2012 and since then they have racked up over 46,000 kilometres while travelling across the globe. The duo have lived life on the road with nothing but their motorbikes and portable offices and their adventure shows no sign of ending any time soon… What motivates you? We are sure that it is in human nature to have the urge to explore new territory. Both of us have the…
Difficulty doesn’t faze French athlete Julia Simon; in fact, it’s exactly what enticed her to specialise in what’s probably the toughest skiing division there is. The 21-year-old Biathlete already has a number of European and World Championship medals under her belt, but she certainly isn’t stopping there… What motivates you? Biathlon is a sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. When skiing I need to be explosive and when shooting I need to be calm, so my search for…
What is a typical day like for you? Days in the life as a Field Guide for the British Antarctic Survey are very rarely the same! Our principal role is the provision of field camp and travel safety for the many different scientists operating all over West Antarctica in the summer field season. Depending on the science project we are assisting with, we could be assisting with radaring glaciers, sampling rocks on geology projects, general camp management on large-scale ice-core…
Timo Pape is the ultimate modern-day nomad who specialises in producing breathtaking adventure travel images. He has visited some of the most dangerous and remote places on earth including Chernobyl and the Antarctic, visiting a total of 85 countries to date. What motivates you? I grew up in massively populated cities like Cairo, Jakarta, Bangkok, London and Hong Kong – all exciting places to live in, but it created a desire to get away from it all. Away from crowds,…
We’re proud to support the Team of Mars Analogue Fumarole Interdisciplinary Collaboration (MAFIC), by providing high-performance protective cases for their next mission. The MAFIC plans to conduct a scientific research expedition at the Atacama Desert in Chile in April 2018. Part of their ongoing investigation of Mars analogues on the Earth is to inform on the interpretation of the data that is relayed from the rovers currently on the surface of Mars. The objective is to combine four different datasets…