Ogita's Profile
With an outstanding Arctic explorer career already behind him, Yasu Ogita is Japan's only Arctic adventurer and has been drawing attention from the media both at home and abroad. Spanning 20 years from 2000 to 2019, he has been to the Arctic 16 times with more than 10,000 km covered throughout the Arctic region. He has been on solo expeditions mainly in the Canadian Arctic Circle, Greenland, and the Arctic Ocean.
1977 born in Kanagawa Pref. Japan
2000 Resolute Bay - North Magnetic Pole 700km on foot
2001 Polar training in Resolute Bay
2002 Resolute Bay - Grise Fiord 500km solo trek
2003 Cambridge Bay (Victoria Is. Arctic Canada) solo trek
2004 Greenland Icecap traverse 2000km
Siorapalu - Ammasallik
2006 Cambridge Bay trekking
2007 Resolute Bay - Cambridge Bay 1000km solo trek
2008 Tundra summer trek in Canadian Arctic
2010 Resolute - North Magnetic Pole solo 700km trek
2011 Resolute - Gjoa Haven - Baker Lake 1600km trek
2012 North Pole solo unsupported 1st attempt
2014 North Pole solo unsupported 2nd attempt
2016 Grise Fiord - Siorapaluk 1000km solo trek
2017 Cambridge Bay training for Antarctic Expedition
2018 Hercules Inlet - South Pole 1,130 km solo trek
2019 Pangnirtung - Clyde River 600km (Arctic Adventure Walk 2019)
2021 Establish "Adventure Lab. LLC"
