Epic Fails

Ever since he can think, our author has wanted to cycle around New Zealand. He never made it. But he got close

For months, two girlfriends and I had been avidly awaiting the mammoth march. 100 kilometres in 24 hours - that was the challenge. The organizers of this unique hiking event had marked out a dreamlike route through forests, along the Isar and the Starnberger lake. Find out here why we ended up going through hell anyway.

Spontaneously in Kenya on vacation on a 5000: Why this is not a good idea, our author had to experience painfully at first hand.

For several weeks our author wandered through Norway in the pouring rain as a teenager. To this day the biggest fail of his outdoor life - but a tough test of an unexpected kind.