Aleksander Gamme (born July 23, 1976) is a
Norwegian
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adventurer, polar explorer, researcher, author and public speaker.
In 2007, he climbed
Mount Everest
Mount Everest (; Tibetic languages, Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is List of highest mountains on Earth, Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border ru ...
with Stian Voldmo. While he was there he worked on an interactive teaching project "Hamar til Topps" 1,000 Norwegian students in 6th and 7th grades where he took students' paper planes to the top of Everest and flew them from the summit. The project received ITU's creative prize.
In 2010, he and Erik Gran Kvaase became the first people to tandem bike across the
Sahara. While there, they ran another teaching project as a follow up to "Hamar til Topps".
In 2011, he completed the first unsupported solo coast to coast hike across
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
, going from Hercules Inlet to the
South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole, Terrestrial South Pole or 90th Parallel South, is one of the two points where Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipod ...
and back again, a trip that took 57 days to the pole and 87 days until he returned to the coast. He finished at the same time as a concurrent expedition by
Cas and Jonesy, after waiting so he could join them for the final day. Together they were the first unsupported trips to the South Pole and back.
During the expedition he gained some media attention for a video of him happily finding some Cheese Doodles in a forgotten cache of food.
Private life
Gamme was married to
Cecilie Skog, a Norwegian mountain climber. The two were program leaders in
NRK
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's program Dream Times. Their first child, Vilja Skog Gamme, was born in 2014.
Expeditions
*2003: 50 days through
Finnmark
Finnmark (; se, Finnmárku ; fkv, Finmarku; fi, Ruija ; russian: Финнмарк) was a county in the northern part of Norway, and it is scheduled to become a county again in 2024.
On 1 January 2020, Finnmark was merged with the neighbouri ...
and Troms.
*2003:
Ismoil Somoni Peak
Ismoil Somoni Peak ( Tajik: Қуллаи Исмоили Сомонӣ, ''Qulla-i Ismō‘il-i Sōmōnî/Qullaji Ismojili Somonī''; fa, قلّهٔ اسماعیل سامانی; russian: Пик Исмои́ла Сомони́, r=Pik Ismoíla Somon ...
(7495m) (stopped at 7000m).
*2007: Mount Everest (Tibetan side, with Stian Voldmo).
*2010: The world's first tandem bike through the Sahara.
*2010:
Broad Peak
Broad Peak ( ur, ) is a mountain in the Karakoram on the border of Pakistan and China, the twelfth-highest mountain in the world at above sea level. It was first ascended in June 1957 by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, ...
(8047m) (stopped at 7500m).
*2011/12: First solo unsupported South Pole return hike (87 days, 2270 km)
Bibliography
*Expedition Book, Larsforlaget / Cappelen, 2012.
*12 tours with trøkk, Larsforlaget, 2012, (Birkebeineren - 800 years after)
*Tough Trips with Trøkk, Larsforlaget, 2010 (On tandem bike through Sahara)
*10 tours with trøkk, Larsforlaget, 2008 (50 days through Finnmark and Troms)
*Touring with Tricks, Larsforlaget, 2006, (Pik Kommunizma)
References
External links
Aleksander Gamme Website
Living people
1976 births
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