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ABOUT TORE GROENNE
Since my first bicycle ride -
four months alone through the Andes when I was 20 years old - I have cycled
about 45.000 kilometers on five continents. The most recent trip was a seven
month trip in 2010-2011 mostly by bicycle and on foot and for the majority of the time in
the Himalayas.
Besides numerous trips in the
Himalayas, Karakorams, Hindu Kush, Pamirs and the Andes I have pedaled from
China to Denmark, through Central and South America, in the Middle East, Central Asia and North America.
Over the years, I have crossed
some of the highest mountain passes on the planet, the driest desert on earth,
rain forests, and arctic areas. I been held up at machine gun point in Iran
(which, other than that, by far is the friendliest of the about 70 countries I
traveled in), been arrested by the Chinese security police for illegal travel
in Tibet, been bit by a monkey, looked for places to sleep in mine fields in Tajikistan and spent nights with farmers in Bolivia, nomads in Kyrgyzstan,
Jesus fanatics in Guatemala, jihad sympathizers in Pakistan, at police stations
in Panama, in trailer parks in Canada on very often in my tent where ever it
got dark.
I have a degree in journalism
from the Danish School of Journalism and San Francisco State University. I have
worked as a crime reporter for Indian newspaper Mid Day in Bombay, for Danish
travel site www.tgt.dk, and spent three years as the editor in chief of Danish
adventure travel magazine Opdag Verden (Adventure World).
Now I live from
writing stories from the road, and from telling about/showing pictures from my
adventures.
Write me at toregroenne@gmail.com
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