Exploration
Journey through Johan’s incredible adventures across remote and challenging terrains. Share your suggestions and help chart the course for his next expedition.
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Mount Kosciuszko
The highest mountain on the Australian mainland is Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 metres (7,310 ft). The mountain is far more complicated to spell than to climb. It is more of a hike than a climb. This is the highest mountain in Australia but not the highest on the continent, including Australia and New Guinea. That mountain…
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Mount McKinley (Denali)
Mount McKinley (Denali) was Johan’s first mountain, and he was now at a crossroads in his life after his biking expedition from Sweden to Africa. Was the biking adventure a “once-in-a-lifetime” thing, or was it a start to a new lifestyle? Johan’s life took a sharp turn, and he started looking for new challenges. His…
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Mount Shishapangma
After reaching the highest point in North America, Johan became interested in mountains. There is some kind of magical atmosphere in the mountains that is hard to explain. Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian climber who got to know His Holiness Dalai Lama in the early 1900s in Tibet. He was asked by the Dalai Lama…
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Mount Vinson
The Vinson Massif is about 1,200 kilometres from the South Pole. It is about 21 km long and 13 km wide. The highest point is 4,892 metres, and it was named in 2006 after Carl Vinson, a member of the U.S. Congress. Antarctica is the world’s coldest, windiest, highest, and driest continent. Beneath the ice,…
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North America Bike Expedition
“What is there left to explore? Hasn’t everything been discovered?” When I started my journeys in 1994, I thought I had seen it all, but the more I travelled the more I understood that I haven’t really seen anything yet. Now, after 32 expeditions through 100 countries, I understand, more than ever, how small I…
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North Pole Expedition
The North Pole is defined as the point in the Northen Hemisphere where the Earth’s axis of rotation meets its surface. The North Pole is the northernmost point on the Earth, lying diametrically opposite the South Pole. At the North Pole all directions point south; all lines of longitude converge there, so its longitude can…
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North West Passage
The Swedish Polar Research Institute was a new way for Johan to do adventures. Combining photography, science and film together with adventure was the perfect way for him to do expeditions. Johan needed more than just the adventure. After 100 days in Antarctica, he started to understand how important it was to get his message…
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Papua Tribe Expedition
The Korowai, also called the Kolufo, are a people (about 3,000) of southeastern Papua. Until 1970, they were unaware of the existence of any people besides themselves. The Korowai universe is filled with all kinds of spirits, some more personal of character than others, and for Johan to enter some of the tribes was an interesting…
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Pole2Pole
“What is there left to explore? Hasn’t everything been discovered?” When I started my journey in 1993, I thought I had seen it all, but the more I travelled, the more I understood that I hadn’t really seen anything yet. Now, after 32 expeditions through 100 countries, I understand, more than ever, how small I…
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South Pole Expedition
After many months of traveling by ski, bike, sail, and swimming, I was finally in South America and started to plan for Antarctica. I had been through hell with problems all over my back, but every problem had a solution, and I decided that all the problems in the world were not going to stop…
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Summit of Sweden in a Wheelchair
When Aron was very young, he got cancer. He decided to live, and not only that, he decided to become the best. Today, Aron has a new life and many World Championship Gold medals in sailing, ice hockey and the Paralympics. Aron’s determination saw him and Johan climb the highest peak in Sweden, Kebnekaise. If…
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Trans-America Bike Expedition
There are no words for how fantastic it was to sit on a bike after so many months of fighting on the floating ice at the North Pole. In life, things never turn out as you expect them to, so instead of standing in Greenland, I ended up in Canada and Nunavut. The bikes that…
