On April 2 2010, a group of 11 people, guided by Dixie Dansercoer and Troy Henkels, set off for an expedition to the North Pole. All of these expeditioners are active professionals with busy agendas and a passion for the outdoor and nature. They had collectively decided to make time for a long process of physical and mental preparation, in total 2 years, in order to head out for the North Pole, the point where the Earth’s rotation meets the Earth's surface.

The NorthBound Quest was a challenging adventure where all of them had to go beyond their own limits. To reach to North Pole, the preparation period of two year was necessary to start as much as possible physically trained at the kick off of this journey, walking the Last Degree (from the 89th Degree to the 90th) on foot in harsh conditions.The North Pole is situated in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, amidst waters that are most of the time covered by drifting sea ice. This made the journey very unpredictable and together with the extreme cold temperatures that went as low as -32°C, without taking the windchill factor into account, reaching the goal was not evident. It was finally not the cold that kept the group from reaching the North Pole on foot, but storms and whiteouts keeping them half a day in the tent, in combination with severe southern drift of the ice cap. However, the whole group experienced the journey highly succesful and no one would have wanted to miss a single moment, no matter how hard it sometimes was. The team had to continue its journey after one of the expeditioners, Joost, had to leave due to severe frostbite. One of the top moments was the group swimming into the Arctic Ocean, a unique moment none of them will forget.