MICHAEL VOGELEY
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Michael Vogeley
Maxim: By own power
Mountaineer, Arctic researcher and dedicated extreme sportsman, he is not a man whom one could call a traditional adventurer.
In spite of many spectacular expeditions, this journalist never made adventure his profession. “Vogeley is an exception”.
His Nicknames “Manager on the Rocks”, “Arctic wolf”, “Dances on the Ice” reflect his position as one of the most succesful German-speaking adventurer.
Michael has been on spectacular expeditions under extreme climatic, physical and psychological conditions in the Arctic and the Antarctic, has established world records in ice caves, has undertaken prime ascents of summits and extreme faces, first sailings by kayak and led the first German North Pole ski expedition. But his passion concerns all forms of wilderness: mountains, ice, sea, white-water, desert…
Having had adventures on all continents, he uses this to drive his daily work as a successful journalist and has documented this in hundreds of publications and in many books and films. “The life sailing close to the wind increases pleasure in normal life and sets important activities for life and survival in the profession”.
He has lived with the natives of the Arctic, the Inuit, and is polar consultant and expedition leader of the DAV Summit Club. He passes on his experiences with extraordinary efficiency to enterprises and their staff in Outdoor Team Trainings. Self-imposed rules accompany his uncommon travels, expeditions and adventures pushing the limit.
Michael is as a journalist member of the following well known organisations
- DJV – Deutscher Journalisten-Verband / Gewerkschaft der Journalistinnen und Journalisten
- BJV – Bayrischer Journalisten-Verband
- Vereinigung Deutscher Reisejournalisten e.V.
- European Travel Press
By own power • with fair means • back to the roots
Travels, expeditions and records
Pyrenees
Solo from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea on the Haute Randonée Pyrénéenne
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On writer Robert Louis Stevenson's track
A journey with a donkey across the South French Cévennes
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Consulting of a ZDF-team, 12th trip to Greenland
Diskobay – wonder of the nature
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South Georgia Island
In search of Shackletons tracks in the Antarctic
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Robinson Crusoe was a mountaineer, too
The wild islands of the Chilian Juan Fernandez Archipelago
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Challenge North Pole
Leading the 1st German North Pole ski expedition
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Canadian Baffin Island
Leading the first dog sledding and ski expedition across the Auyuittuq mountains
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Cape Horn area, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego
1st kayak voyage across the South American Strait of Magellan
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Uummanarsuaq – first attempts and ascents
Leading the jubilee climbing expedition of the Bayerland section of the DAV to Cape Farvel, Greenland
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South Greenland
1st solitary sailing by a folding kayak of the Ketils-Fjord
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Libya
1st European participant of the Alabaster caravan into the Lybian Desert
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Egypt
Honeymoon in an canoe on the Nile
Two depth world records
1st Greenland expedition into glacier ice caves. EC protectorate
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Crossing Greenland in 34 days with self-pulled sleds
1st ski expedition on the original track of Nansen, on the occasion of the 100 year jubilee
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Greenland
Canoe tour through the South-Western Fjords of Greenland
Crossing of the Atlantic with a sailing boat from Greenland to Iceland
On the occasion of the 1000 year jubilee of the discovery of Greenland on the original Wiking route
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Germany
1st downhill run with a Mountain Bike on Germany's Highest Mountain, the Zugspitze
Turkey
First ski-tours in the Turkish Taurus Mountains
Spain
1st Crossing of the Spanish Sierra Nevada on skis
North Sea
Winter crossing of the North Sea with a sailboat
Swedish Lappland
1st touristic winter crossing of the Sarek Mountains on skis
Iran
Mountaineering on the five thousand meter high Demavend, highest mountain of Iran
Ski-crossing of the High Atlas, Morocco
First navigation of the Southern Couloir of the south couloir of Ouanoukrim
Commentaries of the Press
- A very special travel editor
- Manager on the rocks – Manager in the ice
- Arctic explorer, mountaineer and dedicated extreme sportsman
- The one playing with his life
- World champion about ice
- Arctic wolf from the Wörthsee
- From the ice with love – brings the brilliance [of the arctic] closer in words an pictures
- Vogeley makes a name for border crossing in the Arctic
- An outstanding leader
- The Canadiens must have had envisaged somebody like Vogeley when they coined the idea ‘arctic bitten’
- A horn of plenty of information
- Fascinated by the unexplored
(Münchner Merkur) - Arktic man of honour
- The experienced German polar expert
- Not a man whom one could call a traditional adventurer
(Newtime) - Simply the best
- I have never seen such a fine and correct description before
(Gunnar Jensen, Arctic Expeditions Adviser)
