Alain Hubert
expedition leader

44 years old, 3 children, civil construction engineer and joiner/carpenter from the Ardennes

Long-distance runner, caster, mountaineer, numerous ascents and crossings on skis in the Alps to his credit

14 years of experience of Himalayan and Polar expeditions including:

• Amadablam (6858 m), first ascent East ridge with André Georges, Nepal 1983 and winter ascent, SW face, Nepal, 1992
• Kanchenjunga South, (8491 m) solo ascent of the South-West face (attempt), Nepal, 1987
• Cho Oyu (8201 m), winter ascent of the South-East face (attempt) Nepal, 1989 and direct ascent of NE face, Tibet 1990
• Everest (8846m), direct ascent of North face (attempt), Tibet, 1991 and ascents of South ridge without oxygen (attempts), Nepal, 1992, 94 and 96
• Spitsbergen, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Greenland, Iceland,·(expeditions on skis), 1990 to 1997
• Baffin Island, ski trek, 600 km solo, North East Canada, 1991
• Geographic North Pole (First Belgian to the North Pole with Didier Goetghebuer), polar expedition on foot and on skis, more than 1100 km solo (with unplanned resupplying en route) Arctic Ocean, 1994
• Greenland, polar expedition on skis and parafoils, crossing (620 km), 1995 and 1997
• Ellsworth, reconnaissance, Antarctica, 1996

Dixie Dansercoer
 

35 years old, 3 children

Flight Attendant with Sabena World Airlines

Living in Huldenburg in Belgium