A human powered adventure

I left Belgium with my bicycle, climbing and camping gear for a crazy project:  The Secutec Seven Summits, a human powered adventure. I want to climb the highest peak on every continent and go there by human power only. I left to cycle 3800 km to Mt Elbrus , Europe’s highest peak and climb it.

After cycling 3800 km from Belgium to Terskol I arrived at the base of Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of Europe. I searched for a hotel, parked my bike and started climbing Mt Elbrus all by myself…

After parking my bike it was time to climb this mountain. With 5642 m definitely not one to be underestimated. Luckily I was prepared an climbed to the summit and back in 4 days, all by myself.

Immediately after the summit I descended down and continued cycling to Nepal. Which took me 10.000km through 2 deserts and the Tibetan plateau in winter. 4 months later I arrived in Nepal where I worked as a physiotherapist and prepared for the climb of Mount Everest.

After cycling and trekking into Everest base camp a huge tragedy occured. On the 18th of April, a huge serac fell down, taking the lives of 16 Sherpa… RIP . After this accident I returned home to prepare for the next year.

The next year I came back to Everest, better prepared and ready to climb. Then a huge earthquake occured in Nepal, killing more than 9000 people. This almost costed me my own life when an avalanche hit basecamp. This avalanche killed 19 people and injured many climbers.

At least I wanted to see how far I could go on this mountain so I returned to Nepal a 3rd time. I cycled and walked to Everest Base Camp again. This time no accidents occured, I was extremely well prepared and without too many problems I  was on the highest mountain on earth!

After the summit of Everest I cycled to Indonesia with my friend Benjamin. Around 9.000 km we cycled together through Nepal, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.

This took me a huge amount of physical and mental energy. The preparation was immense and so was the effort. A total of 6 months of rowing (+4000km, not including the breaks) brought me to Papua. Becoming the first person ever to row from Java to Papua.

It took me 2,5 years to finally arrive human powered to this mountain and climb it! A great achievement and the hardest approach so far.

Start to handbike to Kilimanjaro with Frank Van Linden to Gibraltar, cross the strait of Gibraltar by kayak and cycle another 16.000km to Kilimanjaro. In April 2020 I got stopped because of closed borders due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

After 14.000km of cycling and kayaking through Europe and Africa I had to come back to Belgium due to the pandemic.

Cycled to Portugal in winter and continued by rowboat to Miami. Because of a very hard sea sickness we had to stop our journey in Tenerife, after 1300km of rowing in 16 days.

In June 2021 the borders in Africa seemed to open up again so I could continue cycling to Tanzania. Angola was still closed so I decided, after some research, to cross the DRC by bicycle. A journey that is not to be taken lightly, but definitely worth every effort! Read more about it in the... View Article

In October I cycled to Lorient (France) and sailed all the way to Panama. There I hopped on the bike to continue my human powered journey to Alaska! In LA I finished part one after 19.000km of cycling and sailing