EAST-CANADA, June, July, August 1998 4000 km by bicycle, crossing Labrador Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick. MONGOLIA, July-August 1995, June-July 1996, February 1997 Journey by bicycle (2500 km), on horseback with the Tsaatan and the Kazakhs and by camel in the Gobi desert. Report. SIBERIA, 1992/95 Six trips making a total of over one and a half years stay. Lake Baïkal, winter expedition in Yakoutie and with the Evèneseof mount Verkhoïansk, horseback riding and transhumance with the Evènes of Kamtchatka, Kimandorskiye Island in the Bering Sea. WEST AFRICA, October 1990 to April 1991 St-Malo-Niamey (Niger) on bicycle, 6000 km, including crossing the Sahara desert. Solo journey by camel: 1200 km, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso. GREENLAND, June to September 1990 Raid solitaire en kayak, Sondre-Stromfjord-Ilulissat. NEPAL-INDIA, February to July 1988 6000 km on foot and by bicycle. Annapurna, Gange plain. NEW-ZEALAND, November 1987 to January 1988 North Island, South Island and Steward Island crossed on foot and by bicycle. PAPUA NEW GUINEA, September - October 1987 Trek on foot : Kokoda trail and ascent of Mount Wilhelm (4510 m) Solo descent of Sépik river in a dugout. AUSTRALIA, October 1985 to August 1987 Teacher at Sydney. Several trips through the country. Navigation from Cairns to Darwin by yacht. GREENLAND, 1984/85 A year in a small Inuit village on the West coast. Learning of the language and eskimo techniques, seal hunting, kayak, wintering, dog training, fishing in ice fields, solo trek with dog sled. ICELAND, July and August 1983 North-South solo crossing on foot of central desert. FRANCE, 1982-84, speleology, skiing, mountaineering Underground exploration of the Berger chasm right up to the coast -1100m.

Support team Adventure Club, Moscow The administrative work (obtaining official permits), the support and the safety will be quaranted by the russian organisation Adventure Club from Moscow, directed by Dmitry Shparo. Adventure Club is a charity rehabilitation fund which developps knowledge to young people and improuve integration of people with disabilities by the way of extreme adventures or scientific explorations. Dmitry Shparo is a mathematician by training. He is one of the world best known polar explorer and is the writer of many books about the Arctic. He has led the first expedition to reach the North Pole by skis in 1979 (recorded in the London Guiness book of records) and crossed, for the first time, the Bering strait in winter 1998. www.shparo.ru