Commitment
Going into the field to understand, document and act, rather than speaking from afar.
Using adventure to transmit
Faced with the environmental and climate upheavals transforming our planet, we are convinced that we need to reinvent how we raise awareness and share knowledge. Adventure is, for us, a powerful vehicle for communication and education.
Through our expeditions, stories, films, talks and publications, we want to share an authentic experience from the field. Our projects make it possible to address issues linked to the environment, polar regions and remote territories, while transmitting values of commitment, respect for nature, pushing one’s limits, and cooperation.
Our values
Respect for nature
Exploring fragile territories with rigor, humility and a genuine concern for preservation.
Pushing one’s limits
Adventure as a school of resilience, lucidity and presence in the world.
Cooperation
Bringing explorers, scientists, artists and the public together around a shared transmission.
Our story
2023
Merlin
80° North
Merlin
80° North
Photo book
Documentary
80 Degrees North lays the foundations
In 2023, the first project carried by Life Expeditions came to life: 80 Degrees North. This first adventure laid the foundations of the association and of its will to make expedition a tool for transmission.
The expedition also led to the publication of a photographic book and a documentary tracing the project and the territories crossed.
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2024
Workshops
Greenland, a book, and the first workshops
In 2024, Olav Bleffert joined the team for a Greenland crossing. That experience notably gave rise to a book published by OptikControl.
The same year, Life Expeditions also developed its first educational workshops, with the will to bring adventure closer to the public and to younger generations.
Discover the education program
2025
Harold
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Pyramiden
Nicolas
Nicolas
Harold
Pyramiden, then new encounters
In 2025, Nicolas Sanchez joined the adventure for the Pyramiden expedition, organised by Merlin Cerise alongside Olav Bleffert and Gaël Loicq. After that experience, Nicolas became a full member of Life Expeditions.
A meeting at Lecomte
That same year, Merlin Cerise met Harold Sorel at Lecomte Alpinisme & Randonnée, an emblematic outdoor shop in Belgium. A meeting that marked the beginning of a collaboration and a shared vision around adventure and wild territories.
2026
Vice-president
Iceland
Film
Svalbard Axis
Film
Vice-president
Iceland and Svalbard Axis
In 2026, Harold Sorel completed a north-to-south crossing of Iceland, alone and unsupported, in the heart of winter.
The same year, Life Expeditions took a new step with the Svalbard Axis expedition. For 24 days, Merlin Cerise, Nicolas Sanchez and Gaël Loicq travelled the wild territories of Spitsbergen as part of a committed polar expedition. From that adventure was born the documentary film Projet Svalbard Axis, directed by Jean-Simon Gérard, bearing witness to the human experience and the realities encountered in the field.
Following these adventures, Harold Sorel officially joined the board of Life Expeditions and became vice-president of the association, now taking an active part in its development and future projects.
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Today
Life Expeditions continues to grow through new expedition projects, the production of films and educational content, the organisation of workshops and talks, and the creation of new collaborations.
Our team keeps growing, carried by the same conviction: adventure can be much more than a personal experience. It can become a tool for transmission, awareness and inspiration for future generations.
Life Expeditions is, above all, a collective adventure, in service of discovery, the environment and transmission.