Amazing Stories

We have plenty of them.

WE DO MORE THAN WE TELL

This page is dedicated for the great stories.

The Basecamp Explorer Group in the Masai Mara Wildlife Reserve

A story by Svein Wilhelmsen, founder Basecamp Explorer, and Basecamp Explorer Foundation. I am on one of my beloved walking saf...

Eat This! Basecamp culinary project

Eat This! is not an ordinary cookbook. It is a cookbook dedicated to passion, courage, and possibilities! The cook book is a fund...

Svein at TEDx: Our grand plan to save Africa’s wildlife

TEDx has a wish to change the world one talk at a time. Now Svein Wilhelmsen founder of Basecamp Explorer has joined the famous gr...

Obama supports sustainable tourism by staying with Basecamp

Giraffe walking over the savannah in Masai Mara, Kenya.

When Barack Obama first set foot on Kenyan soil in 1988 he was a young man in search of his father's village in western Kenya. He ...

OUR ARCTIC FOOD PHILOSOPHY

Dinner at Isfjord Radio Adventure Hotel

Bearded seal, ringed seal, arctic char and cod from the ice cold sea. Reindeer, ptarmigan and geese from the modest tundra and the...

The feeling of an Arctic spa

Looking through the big wall-to-wall window, all you can see is the wide horizon over Arctic Ocean. Somewhere out there is the coa...

Storytelling by the Fireplace: Meet Dorobo

Maasai man walking on the savannah in Masai Mara, and smiling with a spear in hand.

The African bush is the perfect backdrop for mystical storytelling by the fireplace. It is after dinner here in the heart of th...

BEADING FOR A BETTER FUTURE

Maasai women in traditional clothing making handicrafts.

For many people, the elaborate beadwork made by Maasai women may seem nothing more than a colorful decoration that enlivens ceremo...

A self-made Success Story by Chef Benson

With inspired dishes like Masai Giraffe Swiss Roll and Wilderness Camp Rocky Road Chocolate Cake, Basecamp Head chef Benson Ole So...

Dreaming the Impossible – The story of Mara Naboisho

Portrait photo of Maasai staff.

This is the story through Basecamp Eyes of a community that chose to come together when faced with external threats such as climat...

Afternoon tea in Barentsburg

Barentsburg, the next-door neighbour of Isfjord Radio and the only remaining Russian settlement on Svalbard, is like taking a trip...

The City Abandoned at the world’s end

Old abandoned industrial building on Svalbard.

Three hours by plane to Svalbard, then three hours by open boat, and you find yourself in the northernmost abandoned city: you are...

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