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...er decision: she would walk to fulfil her desire for discovery and her need to try and understand Life. She spent time in Patagonia, where kilometre after kilometre she explored the land. She stayed in Moorea (French Polynesia) where she was attracted to the beauty of the islands and their inhabitants. She explored Canada by canoe and in 2000 she crossed the United States, from the Canadian to the Mexican border: 4’260 kilometres in four months and six days, a path full of obstacles. She then thought she had reached the limit of her abilities. Until the Australian bush beckoned her once again (over the years she has returned regularly to rejuvenate): From up in her snowy mountains in Switzerland, she thought up a wild plan: crossing the Australian deserts alone on foot...
Sarah spent five hundred and ten (510) days wandering through the Australian continent alone. The thought of abandoning her mission never even crossed her mind. Faced with Mother Nature’s un-forgivingness, she humbly confronted her destiny by pushing beyond both her physical and her mental limits. Her basis for survival was her experience. She used her flair, her tricks and some leading-edge survival techniques borrowed from the US Army. Most of the time the animals she preyed on were faster than her. Sometimes nature pitied her and allowed her to satisfy her appetite. Her only points of reference were her precious topographic maps and a compass that never left her side.
As a public speaker, Sarah takes audiences on a journey along her desert and mountain paths and experiences, as well as through her thoughts about this vastness, the silence, the distance, the persistence it takes to cross it. From Switzerland to Australia, from dry spells to torrential rain storms, from a plate of insects to a plate of sauerkraut, from her day to day life as a woman to greater altruistic thoughts, let yourself be lead step by step through these lands of red sand…
Her most recent expedition, in 2006, took her to the land of the Incas, from Chile to Peru via Bolivia. She walked the Andes ranges for eight months, for 7000 kilometres.
Next expedition: Siberia to Australia, beginning in 2010
Sarah is busy preparing her next expedition: 20’000 kilometres in 24 months on foot, crossing 12 countries, meeting the wisdom of Central Asia, the tale-telling forces of the winds of the Mongolian Plains, and the moodiness of the Taklimakan desert...
Some of the organizations and corporations that have already invited Sarah to speak at their events:
Tetra Laval, Avireal, TCS, groupe Lagardère, Zug, Debiopharm, Philip Morris, UBP, Cial Bank, Swisscanto, Raiffeisen bank, Olympic Museum, Bechtel, WattWatt, CFF, Coop, the Swiss Army etc…
Sarah will share her experience of how one can live in a natural environment without any external power resource, showing in the process how we can decrease our footprint on the planet.
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- Decrease our footprint on the planet
- Self-motivation
- Overcoming obstacles you fear
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