Explorer
CurrentI am an explorer.In my career I have explored deserts, rivers, polar areas and sailed two oceans. Adventure is my great passion and master of life, which has taught me to thrive in an increasingly unpredictable, complex and uncertain world.In 2001 I participated in the Marathon des Sables, a 260km self-supporter footrace in Morocco.In 2002 and 2003 I crossed Alaska on foot pulling a sled, for a total of 2000km.In 2006 I was the first man in the world to cross the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean alone on a rowing boat.In 2008 I rowed the Pacific Ocean, from Lima to Australia in 294 days.In 2011 I ran across the United States, from Los Angeles to New York (5300km in 70 days).In 2017 I crossed the largest glacier in Europe (Vatnajokull, Iceland) in 13 days.More recently, from 2019 to 2023 I sailed on the ten most plastic polluted rivers in the world, responsible for 80% of the plastic that pollutes the oceans, with the goal of creating environmental awareness and helping to give birth to a new ecological thinking. As part of the same project, in 2019 I rowed through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest accumulation of plastic in the Pacific Ocean.