The Best Quest

SolarTuk has been storming across Thailand at 31mph for the past 3 days. We had been waiting to hear from the expedition and had been assuming they would cross Australia east-to-west first, though there had never been any such reports from the fie...(more)

Before Vescovo and his team sailed to the Pacific islands of Tonga, it was not completely clear if the Horizon Deep (the deepest point of the Tonga Trench) was the first deepest or second deepest point on Earth. The team confirmed with sonar that ...(more)

In early June, Marie, Nil and his brother Noé crossed into North Macedonia, the 12th country of their trip. They first arrived at the town of Ohrid before moving on to the capital Skopje. North Macedonia would mark the final country for Noé, hav...(more)

From Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Butter flew back to East Africa to tick off a few countries that had been skipped over earlier in the trip. First, he flew to Entebbe, Uganda where he was welcomed by an excellent hotel team w...(more)

Salopek is approaching an important crossroads, to complete his odyssey to Tierra del Fuego at the southern-most tip of South America he needs to head north towards the Bering Strait that separates Asia and North America. However, his route remain...(more)