Fuchs Arved (Germany)

Fuchs Arved

German explorer Arved Fuchs was born in 1953. In 1989, Arved and the famous mountain climber Reinhold Messner were the first to reach the South pole without using only skis and kites. He is the first and - to date - only person to have reached both poles on foot within a single year.

With his research ship Dagmar Aaen, he succeeded in being the first and, again, the only person to date to sail completely around the North Pole on the notorious north-west and north-east passages.

He also made a successful and authentic reconstruction of one of the most memorable events in the history of seafaring, Shackelton's odyssey through the south polar Atlantic.

Achievements

1977: Canoe expedition to Labrador
1978: Borneo expedition
1979: West coast of Greenland
1980: Expedition to the Canadian Arctic
1981: Crossing the Atlantic with the "GOLDEN GOOSE"
1983: Crossing Greenland by dog sledge
1984: Cape Horn rounded for the first time using a collapsible kayak
1985: Collapsible kayak expedition to the magnetic North Pole
1986: Mountain expedition to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego
1987: Second Borneo expedition
1988: Tierra del Fuego expedition using a collapsible kayak
1989: ICEWALK expedition : The first German to reach the North Pole on foot
1989: South Pole expedition : Crossing the Antarctic with Reinhold Messner by ski. The first person to reach both the North and the South Pole on foot and in one year
1991: ICESAIL expedition : part 1 : Spitsbergen, France-Joseph Land
1992: ICESAIL expedition : part 2 : Northeast Passage
1993: ICESAIL expedition : part 3 : Northwest Passage
1994: ICESAIL expedition : part 4 : Alaska , Aleutian , Canada
1995-1996: SEA, ICE & MOUNTAINS expedition : part 5 : South Pacific , Patagonia, Cape Horn
1997: Arctic Passages expedition- part 1 : ICEFLY â following the trail of Swedish explorer Andrée
1998: Arctic Passages expedition â part 2 : Greenland Challenge- following the trail of the first and second German North Pole expedition
2000: SHACKLETON 2000 In Shackleton's wake. Following Shackleton across the most hazardous ocean of the world
2002: Northeast Passage - Northeast Passage
2003: From FIRE to ICE - Northwest Passage
2004: Icebound - Arved Fuchs continues his Northwest-Passage expedition, which was interrupted last year due to ice conditions
2006: Ultima Thule - 1.000 kilometres by foot to the North Pole starting from Ellesmere Island
2006: East Greenland Expedition - a journey on the remote coast of Greenland, following the "Danmark-Expedition" from 1906

Arved Fuchs has written eleven books about his expeditions. He has become internationally famous via numerous television documentaries and photographic reports.