Human Powered Northern Loop of the Earth: Katharina Kneip (Combining Art + Adventure )

🎧 Follow the show here— it really helps Adventure Diaries reach more listeners. Thank you.Katharina Kneip is two and a half years into a human-powered and wind-powered northern loop of the Earth — walking, skiing and hitchhiking on sailboats across some of the most remote regions on the planet. In this conversation, she speaks from Nova Scotia while continuing her multi-year art project Round Motion, a slow, honest look at how people live on the edge of wild landscapes. Her story stretches from Germany to Arctic Norway, Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland and now mainland Canada — shaped by weather, chance encounters and the generosity of strangers. What You’ll LearnHow Round Motion blends long-form travel with contemporary art.Life in the High North: polar night, sea ice, winter tenting and borderlands.The realities of sailing early-season sea ice, storms and remote crossings.How landscapes, politics and people shape the way she thinks about culture and nature.Why this journey has no fixed story, no race and no heroics — just honest field experience.Guest Bio (short)Katharina Kneipp is a German artist walking, skiing and sailing a northern loop around the Earth as part of her ongoing project Round Motion. Her work focuses on slowness, field experience, borderlands, and how people live with weather, terrain and history. ResourcesKatharina’s project: Round MotionNewsletter: KONTAKT - ROUND:MOTIONSend us a textSupport the showThanks For Listening.If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a comment and subscribe for more exciting content. Follow us https://linktr.ee/adventurediaries for updates. Have a topic suggestion? Email us at [email protected]. AdventureDiaries.com#AdventureDiaries #AdventureStories #NationalGeographic #Discovery #NaturalWorld

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