To Move. To Discover. To Connect.
Three verbs that touch the soul of the adventurer, the traveller, the dreamer, and that always lead him – or her – to look beyond the horizon.
Becoming champions of Iceland’s First Hope Spot, the Northeast Iceland Hope Spot, the achievement that lit up our 2023, has also inflated the sails of our 2024, leading us to look further ahead. And upwards – quite literally.
Belén had the wonderful impulse to continue connecting, this time not only with people but also with the land and the ocean itself, on another level: Why not create a link between our newly declared Hope Spot and another of the wildest, most isolated and vital Hope Spots in the North Atlantic?
That was the question that gave birth to the Hope Expedition Svalbard.
In keeping with innovation and dreams fulfilled, this time we would not use our usual homebase, Ópal, to carry out the expedition, but would travel instead aboard Tilvera, Belén and Heimir’s beautiful, agile, vigorous and newly acquired ship.
On my end, being able to participate in this trip opened up a whole world of possibilities. I soon realised that I knew people who could also fall in love with the idea of travelling to the ends of the earth on a ship full of love, science and art, and I started to pull strings. It didn’t take long to see an incredible team forming before my eyes, and an even more unthinkable idea began to form: On this expedition, we were going to create a documentary. A documentary about Ocean Missions and our journey, about the Arctic and its wonders, but also about man and the dangers that come from our kind, threatening the sea, and with it, our own future.
Thanks to Gustavo Karlsson, Cristina Verdú, Yeray Martín and Luca de Santis, as well as our main crew, all the pieces gradually fell into place, and the expedition began in all its icy splendour.
Read here the complete story of this amazing adventure.
