Epic Fails

By bicycle through New Zealand. This is the life's dream of our author. He never made it. But he got close. What happened in between? Falling down, getting up again, restarting, changing plans, changing goals - a journey like the year 2020.

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.