Adventurer Spotlight
We've been making tents for 50 years, and people all over the world - from military units to professional guides to families to compulsive adventurers - have honored us by choosing our models for their journeys. The group highlighted here are just a few of the passionate outdoor travelers who depend on Hilleberg tents.
Darrin Tanner
Darrin Tanner lives in Idaho, USA. A bricklayer by trade, Darrin is outdoors nearly every day, and in the mountains (with his kids) every chance he gets. “I love being in the mountains in all seasons,” he says. “I’m the father of six children and love being with my kids. I’ve taught, and continue to teach, them to love...
Sander van der Werf
Sander van der Werf is a Dutch freelance photographer with a passion for the outdoors. “I love to explore nature,” he says, “and my favorite adventures are alpine climbing, long hiking trips and camping.” An autumn hike in Sarek National Park in Sweden left him with a lasting love of Lapland, but he also “has a soft sp...
Alasdair Turner
Alasdair Turner is a photographer and mountain guide who spends most of the year traveling away from his home in Seattle, Washington. He guides in Alaska or the Pacific Northwest in the summer months, and as a mountaineer for the US Antarctic Program in winter. And he spends much of his time in his Hilleberg Nallo 2. “...
Angela Maxwell
Angela Maxwell is an American woman who has spent the past three years walking her way around the world. In 2014, she quit her job, sold everything she owned, and set out. She has traversed four continents, thirteen countries and walked over 12,000 kilometers, and she is still walking. As she writes on her site, “I wal...
Veterans Expedition
Veterans Expeditions, or VetEx, is a non-profit group who organize and run trips, adventures, and expeditions for military veterans. Owned, operated and led by veterans, VetEx is committed to involving veterans in the outdoors, for both the health and the fun of it. In May of 2015, VetEx led a successful climb on Denal...
Emily Ford
Having grown up in the Upper Midwest region of the United States, Emily Ford has never not known what it’s like to spend her winter in the snow. “I think for a lot of people, even if you’re getting outside in the dark, moving out in the air is lifesaving,” she says....
Christoph Haas
Christoph Haas was born and grew up in the German city of Passau, in an area known as the Bavarian Forest. “Because of the altitude and the cold climate, these mountains are very ‘Scandinavian,’” he says. “These small but wild mountains were my playground for 30 years.” He trained as a photographer – “the old fashioned...
John Lantz
John Lantz started his outdoor adventuring young, and has been “playing” in the outdoors for over 40 years. Much of his time has been in the mountains of western Norway, but since 2000, he has organized and led expeditions with groups to mountains around the world, currently with the expedition cooperative Swedish Expe...
Krister Jonsson
Krister Jonsson was born and grew up in the very small village of Bredträsk, in the far north of Sweden. He grew up climbing, hiking, hunting and fishing, and naturally gravitated towards becoming a professional guide. He worked first in the Kebnekaise Mountain Station, the jumping off point for Sweden's most f...
Christine Hägglund
Christine Hägglund, who lives in Östersund, Sweden with her husband and her 5, 7 and 9 year old children, has “actively trained and exercised” since she was very young. For many years, she competed in both cross-country skiing and orienteering. “These days I am still active,” she says, “but I don’t compete. Instead, I...
Katharine & David Lowrie
There was no flat ground, so we scraped away the snow and pitched out our new Hilleberg Nallo 2 GT tent on a tiny patch of bare ground on the ridge of a cliff overlooking the Southern Sea. It was July 28, 2012, the first day of the London Olympics and the first night of our world first running expedition. It was also t...
Stela Prodanovic
Stela Prodanovic, a marketing and public relations specialist based in Switzerland, wants to live her life to the fullest. “Since I was a little girl, I wanted to explore the world,” she says. “I’ve managed to visit over 40 countries so far. I try to live my dream and do as many wonderful things as I can,” she says. Sh...
Lars Verket
Since 2005, Norwegian Lars Verket has been a fulltime adventurer, writer, ocean paddler and, in his words, “Paddlosopher.” Inspired by the late ecophilosopher Arne Næss, Lars’ ideal is “to promote amazing outdoor experiences close to where people live,” largely to reduce our transportation footprint. “This does not mea...
Kevin Dana
Kevin Dana is a self-described “regular guy,” but, as he lives in Alaska – where he was born and raised – “regular” might be misleading. He began hunting at age 7, and was a licensed guide by age 20. He works a “real job” – as a manager for a hunting and outdoor specialty retail store – but he lives to be outdoors, bot...
Stefan Böhm
When walking through the Sarek National Park in Sweden – “Europe’s last wilderness”; traveling on skis and sled across the Hardangervidda in Norway; bicycling back and forth across Iceland; canoeing on Swedish lakes, or, as I have now been doing for one and a half years, bicycling around the wor...
Fjellkullorna – Ida & Mimmi
Ida Nordin and Mimmi Person live in Östersund, Sweden, where Ida is a teacher and Mimmi works in the woods. Both love to get out and travel and camp in the mountains and forest. Avid hikers, bikers and paddlers, they both also had, for many years, a longing to do a long trip and experience the winter in the Swedish mou...
David Reid
David Reid was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but fell in love with the Arctic, and moved to the Canadian Arctic in 1989. That same year, he founded Polar Sea Adventures, a polar guiding and adventure program, and moved to Pond Inlet, on Baffin Island, in 1991. Since then he has been involved with over 300 Arctic and Antar...
Matty McNair
Famous Polar explorer Matty McNair is one of the most renowned and experienced polar guides and explorers in the world. She has led numerous record-breaking expeditions, including skiing to the North Pole and, unsupported to the South Pole.
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Loretta Henderson
Since 2009, Loretta Henderson has been bicycling around the world. She has cycled through 40 countries in five continents – Africa, Asia, Oceania, South America, and Europe. After her old tent died in 2013 while in Africa, Loretta reached out to Hilleberg and got a Jannu. When asked about her Jannu she says “This tent...
Linda Baer
Linda Baer is a Swiss graphic designer who is a self-described lover of “remoteness, high mountains and vast deserts – adventures away from the tourism industry.” In 2015, she set out on her bike, eventually spending 20 months cycling about 22,000 km (13,670 miles) through 20 countries. Traveling south from Switzerland...
Stephen Fabes
Stephen Fabes is a British medical doctor, a freelance writer and an adventure cyclist. In January 2010, Steve set off from London to bike the length of six of the earth's continents. Six years later he returned to London after 86,209 km – a distance of more than twice the circumference of the earth – through 75 countr...
Chris Townsend
Chris Townsend is one of the best known and most well-respected writers and gear reviewers in the outdoor industry. He has been the equipment editor for the UK’s The Great Outdoors (TGO), since 1991, and has written 25 books. More importantly, he has logged tens of thousands of kilometers backpacking, including the Pac...
Anette Andersson
Anette Andersson lives in Åre, Sweden, and is a self-described “passionate explorer.” While she works as a freelance writer and photographer, her real inspiration comes, she says, from, “traveling the globe to experience the adventure in order to capture the essence of the tale.” Anette is an avid outdoorswoman, and an...
Tom Lyon
Tom Lyon is a lifelong backpacker with a wealth of experiences on the trail. On his first hike, in 1951, as a young Boy Scout in New York state, he met – and was forever inspired by – Gene Espy, the second man to hike the entire Appalachian Trail, which runs from Maine to Georgia in the eastern US. Since then, he has h...
Guassa Gelada Research Project at Guassa, Ethiopia
Our research project (the Guassa Gelada Research Project) has been operating out of a year-round tented campsite high in the alpine grasslands of the Ethiopian Highlands since 2005. Hilleberg tents have been vital to the project’s success over the past decade, sheltering us, our intrepid research assistants, and precio...
Peter Schön
Since age 18 (16 years now) Peter has been ski mountaineering in the Andes (Chile & Argentina, 14 months in total) and later the Pamirs (Tajikistan), Tien Shan (Kyrgyzstan) and South Caucasus (Georgia & Armenia). He has done several ski descents of 5000 - 7000m peaks, among them some first descents and steep (55°) rout...
Lars Larsson
Lars Larsson grew up in Sweden, and at a young age became “drawn to adventure,” as he puts it. After pursuing master’s studies in computer science and engineering, he began a career as a journalist, but rediscovered his passion for adventure and exploration. “I have long had a dream of traveling in the footsteps of Swe...
Eric Philips
Eric Philips is an Australian polar adventurer and guide. He has pioneered a new route to the South Pole, skied from Russia to the North Pole and North Pole to Canada, ski-kited across Greenland and the South Patagonian Ice cap and has traversed Spitsbergen and Ellesmere Island. As a guide, Eric has led numerous North...
Minkyu Kang
Minkyu Kang lives on the outskirts of Seoul, Korea, where he works as a sales director for an outdoor company. In his spare time, he says, “I enjoy camping, backpacking, canoeing and all sorts of outdoor activity, and I love nature.” And while his job requires that he travel frequently, he wastes no opportunity to mix...
Felix Berg
Felix Berg is an avid climber and mountaineer who successfully weaves his passion into his business. Since 2000, Felix has climbed all over the world, from Peru and Patagonia to the Himalayas, where he has summited Ama Dablam (6812 m, 22,349 ft), Kangchenjunga (8586 m, 28,169 ft) and Mt Everest (8,848 m, 29,029 ft), th...
Mind for Adventure
Swedes Linnéa Grahn and Emma Lockhart founded their Mind for Adventure partnership in 2013 as a way to carry out expeditions and participate in adventure races. Linnéa, who lives in Stockholm, is an experienced adventurer and guide who has, among other things, participated in several of fellow Swede Ola Skinnarmo’s exp...
Jeremy Scott
As a horribly inexperienced and grossly unfit wanna-be cycle tourist I nervously set off from my flat in the leafy suburbs of West London. Almost 52,000km and 2 1/2 years later my challenge was complete as my bicycle and I rolled into Auckland, New Zealand. As a child I could not run around a field with my friends u...
Shinya Moriyama
Shinya Moriyama is a freelance writer who lives in Nagano, Japan, travels frequently, and works primarily for different outdoor publications. Living near the Japanese Alps, he takes full advantage of the mountains, and spends as much time as possible hiking long distances, stand up paddle board touring, mountain biking...
Tilmann Graner
Tilmann Graner has had a life-long love affair with the outdoors. A native of Germany, he grew up playing in the mountains, climbing rock and ice, skiing, and hiking. “Mountain climbing is my passion,” he says. “both classic mountaineering and ski mountaineering. And I like solitude, so I like to sleep in a tent!” Day...
Randy Ternes
Randy Ternes is perhaps the quintessential outdoor enthusiast from the USA’s Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Washington, he has lived in that state all his life, and has explored a great deal of his home turf, in all terrains and conditions. He is an accomplished whitewater kayaker; avid mountain biker; rock, alp...
Agnieszka & Mateusz Waligóra
Agnieszka & Mateusz had traveled separately to a myriad of wild places, but it was only when then joined and journeyed together that they became TRUE adventurers! Over two years in South America, this Polish couple has cycled over 14,000 km (8700 miles) and climbed a few 6000+ m (19,685 ft) peaks. Their stories and...
Uwe Krauss
Uwe Krauss grew up in East Germany, and when the Wall came down, he recalls, “I was 19 years old just the right time to enjoy the newly gained freedom.” Prior to this, he had been pursuing a career in civil engineering, but wanted to do something more exciting. “At school, Geography was always the subject that interest...
Günter Wamser
Günter Wamser is an aircraft engineer by training, but for the last three decades, he has been a nomad by inclination, dedicating his life to travel and adventure. He began with motorcycles, traveling in Africa on shorter journeys. In 1986, he went a step further, and left his “normal” life to begin...
Björn Nehrhoff von Holderberg
Björn Nehrhoff von Holderberg is a long time Hilleberg user and regular contributor of excellent photos to our Handbook. He is the author of five books, and a full time writer and photographer, working for kayaking, trekking and biking magazines. So he spends a great deal of his time outdoors. That might be hiking, oft...
Mirjam Wouters
Mirjam Wouters was born in the Netherlands and grew up cycling. When she left on a 3-month vacation in 2001, she had no idea she would still be on the road 15 years later. Since she picked up her bike in 2003, she has cycled nearly 93, 000 km (57,788 miles) through 63 different countries. Along the way, she picks up od...
Eduardo Cartaya
Eduardo Cartaya is an expedition caver with 30 years’ experience, and he has a special interest in glacier cave systems. He is both an instructor and the Pacific Northwest (USA) regional coordinator for the National Cave Rescue Commission, and he coordinates three glacier cave projects in the region. In 2015, he launch...
Kyle Wright
Kyle Wright is the Forest Archaeologist for The Shoshone National Forest, a rugged area in northwest Wyoming, USA. Lying adjacent to Yellowstone National Park, the Shoshone covers nearly 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres), of which over 607,000 hectares (1.5 million acres) is designated Wilderness. Native Americans...