Erling Kagge

Erling Kagge, born in Oslo, Norway, is a polar explorer, mountaineer, author, art collector and publisher. Kagge was the first in history to walk alone to the South Pole. He was also the first to reach the North Pole, South Pole and the summit of Mount Everest by foot. Kagge is the author of eight publications on exploration, philosophy and art collecting, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages. The New York Times has described him as “a fascinating man. He’s a philosophical adventurer or perhaps an adventurous philosopher.” Among his publications: Silence, In the Age of Noise (Flammarion, 2017); Pole to Pole & Beyond (N. W. Damm & Son, 1994).