Jolanda Linschooten

Jolanda Linschooten was the first Dutch woman to cross the Greenland Icecap on skis in 2007. In 2006 she hiked solo during 40 days through the wilderness of Iceland.

What inspires her to make such travels is to immerse time after time in wild nature, where mankind has not yet put his stamp. In these places, supposed to be empty, there’s a lot to be found, because right there you’ll find out that you don’t need much to be really rich.
Jolanda Linschooten registers her experiences in a unique way in words and images en doesn’t only share her most beautiful moments, but also especially what lessons she learned in the outdoors – totally thrown back upon herself, how she copes with hard times and how she gets the motivation to push on at these particular moments.

Jolanda Linschooten (1966) organizes her travels herself all the way, because she considers solid knowledge, long-term experience and thorough preparations as the key to success. In 2000 she exchanged her regular job in Special Education to start her business OutdoorFoto. Since she travels in assignment or she undertakes expeditions.

Her most remarkable travels and expeditions:

• 1500 km on foot, mountain bike and by canoe from north to south through Alaska, 1997
• 400 km canoeing on the Canadian South Nahanni River, 2003
• Crossing of Spits Bergen on foot, 2004
• 675 km right across Iceland, solo 2006
• 600 km on ski’s across the Greenland Icecap, 2007

Jolanda Linschooten reports for magazines like:

• National Geographic
• Op Pad
• Reizen Magazine
• Grasduinen

Jolanda Linschooten wrote the following books:

• Bergtochten in Noorwegen (mountain hiking in Norway)
• Bergtochten in de Zwitserse Alpen (mountain hiking in the Swiss Alps)
• Kanoparadijs Nederland (paddle guide Netherlands together with husband Frank van Zwol)
• Keerpunt Alaska (turning point Alaska)
• Poollicht (story and photo collection, nominated for the Bob den Uyl Award 2008)

Jolanda Linschooten gives multimedia presentations that are marked by touching live comment and splendid photography that seamless dissolves into unique video fragments, all in High Definition top-quality wide-screen projection. The subjects of her running multimedia presentations are:

• PoleSprit Trans Greenland (about motivation, pushing through & inspiration).
• Solo across Iceland on foot (about the guts to realize a plan).