Expeditions Unlimited is Secret Planet's high altitude and polar expeditions activity.
We have always been passionate about committed exploration and since 2011, with Expeditions Unlimited, we have patiently developed our proposals for polar expeditions and high altitude climbs. We are attached to the human dimension of exploration as much as to the physical and mental challenge it poses.
From the fourteen 8000s to the poles, from the high altitude mountains to the ice caps, our offer projects us into the universe of the few most recognized global operators and certainly the only French-speaking operator.
We approach this responsibility with pride, respect and humility: excellence of our guides and expedition leaders, theoretical and practical preparation of our participants, quality of collective and individual equipment, medical briefings and hotlines, weather routing, live monitoring and communication…
On a few rare initiatives, often once per decade, sometimes world firsts, as far as our collective memory allows us to say, we offer expeditions in the jungles, in the deserts or on the oceans.
We make extraordinary expeditions accessible to enthusiasts. We guide them to complete the journey of their life.
HIGH ALTITUDE ASCENTS OUR SELECTION
POLES AND POLAR CROSSINGS OUR SELECTION
A SHARED ADVENTURE
Building on our extensive experience from some fifty expeditions, we group and coordinate expertise and skills to help you plan and accomplish your expedition. We are fully committed by your side and by your expedition leader.
To tackle an expedition safely and in full peace of mind, you must be physically and technically prepared. We are there to build with you your progression program. Before your departure, we offer theoretical, hands-on, and medical preparation with your guide and the other participants.
An expedition’s success depends on the right decision being made at the right time. We choose the most experienced expedition leaders and select the local team ourselves. Our expedition gear and material are of the highest quality. We use the services of top-notch weather forecasting and medical experts.
We are passionate about challenging expeditions
Between us, we have summited many 7,000 to 8,000 meter peaks, reached the Poles from the pack ice from the coast (South Pole) and the continent (North Pole), and crossed ice caps, tropical forests and whole continents.
We set up top quality teams
Our expedition leaders are among the best in the world for the project in question. Such expertise guarantees serious preparation beforehand, followed by rigorous application on the ground, ensuring the right decision is made at the right time.
Your safety above all else
Our expeditions take place in wild, extreme environments. This requires small groups, quality gear and material, and operational choices that place your safety above all else.
EXPEDITIONS UNLIMITED'S BLOG Latest articles
Our new snowkiting programs
Discover our four new journeys or mini-expeditions guided by French snowkiter Michael Charavin, one of the most experienced expedition kiters. With him, we now offer four programs of 8 to 10 days in Norway, in a logic of pleasure hiking based in a chalet, roaming in tents, or training in preparation for your next ambitious expedition.
Technica - Cleansing in the Himalayas
Breffni Bolze left with Expeditions Unlimited on the clean-up operation of Mount Mustagh Ata in the Himalayan range. This project carried out has made it possible, from the first base camp at 4,400 meters to the summit at 7,546 m, to collect 800 kilos of waste! In the heap, tin cans, syringes, but also gas bottles or even batteries. Discover this amazing team work!
Consider an 8,000 with Bernard Muller
Bernard Muller, one of the most renowned French expedition leader for very high altitude, comes back in a fascinating interview on our expedition to Everest from which he returns, the other 8,000 meter peaks and their characteristics, key factors of achievement of such summits, oxygen... He himself has reached six peaks over 8,000 out of the fourteen on the planet.
Reinhold Messner at the Nanga Parbat
We've chronicled the German tragedies of 1934 and 1937 at Nanga Parbat, followed by Hermann Buhl's mind-boggling victory in 1953. But "The Killer Mountain" isn't done raging. Siegfried Löw, first on the Kinshofer route on the Diamir side in 1962, then Günther Messner in 1970 on the Rupal side were also the victims immolated on the formidable mountain.
Logbook: ascent of Manaslu (8,163m)
At the beginning of September, Expeditions Unlimited carried out its first expedition to Manaslu, the eighth highest peak on the planet at 8,163 meters. An extraordinary adventure in which Eric Bonnem, founder of Expeditions Unlimited and Secret Planet took part. He makes us live this ascension through the images and texts he sent us daily.
The conquest of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m)
To reach the summit of Kangchenjunga, it took fifty-six years of intense effort. First the "Haute Route" in 1899. In 1905, a sulphurous mage determined the correct route of ascent. In 1929 and 1931, the Germans fought an exhausting and sometimes tragic struggle. Then in 1955, two Britons finally set foot on the summit of the mountain. Back to those intense years.
Montagnes Magazine - Interview with Christophe Faisy
Passionate about mountaineering and having already participated in several high altitude expeditions, Christophe Faisy was to go to Everest this spring on the expedition organized by Expeditions Unlimited, of which Montagnes Magazine is a partner. A pulmonologist and resuscitator by profession, Christophe saw his plans change with Covid-19.
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