From Stockholm to the Top of Everest and Back to Nepal by Bike with the “Crazy Swede”
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 04.22.02 | 7:45 PM ET
In 1996, Göran Kropp pedaled a bicycle loaded with 285 pounds of food and equipment from Stockholm to Nepal, climbed the world’s tallest mountain unaided and then rolled home on his bike. The yearlong journey earned Kropp his “Crazy Swede” nickname and, according to National Geographic Adventure magazine, the title of Earth’s Most Entertaining Adventurer.
Brad Wetzler’s profile in NGA’s May issue reveals just how entertaining and crazy Kropp can be. Among his planned adventures is a trip to the South Pole. He says he’s going to sail to Antarctica from Sweden and ski to the pole, then he’ll do the reverse to get home. “Informed outsiders peg his chances at somewhere between zero and zilch,” Wetzler writes. “[I]n part because he’s just now learning to sail.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
