Completely Destroyed while Hiking Corsica’s GR20

Completely Destroyed while Hiking Corsica’s GR20

Uh I can uh I am big but I can make myself very small. Okay. I am pretty tired, but this is the exact spot that I had picked beforehand on Google Maps to start here because I want to do this from sea to sea. My mother hiked a GR20 in 1981 and now I get to do it myself in my own style. I spent the night here like a city nomad. And there’s just the first bit of the song. I have to do just one more thing before I go. Now this is it then. The real starting point. Here we go. Maybe you have noticed I am walking kind of slow. I got injured on the first meter of my true hike. I touched the dolphin. I was very careful. But on my way back through the water, I was a little less careful, just a little bit, and my food slid across something sharp. I think it’s a pretty big cut, but the professional is going to look at it. I asked if they can stitch it maybe. Now I’m just waiting. I I have a lot of will to continue. So I’m doing everything I can and the the doctor is every doing everything he can. So we can still uh do this. I think should be six hours to the next refuge. Let’s see how far I get. Right now it is 6:00. I believe that’s a pretty iconic uh rock. For many people it’s it marks the end of the year 20. For me it’s the beginning. Fully loaded with supplies. Yeah. Nice. The gate. [Applause] I my plan was to just keep walking. But uh if the clouds get darker, I better find a safe place to sleep. This is just beautiful. It’s very rocky and green. Amazing. It has been such a crazy day. And uh wow, I got surprised a little by the sunset. It came much earlier than expected. Look, it’s getting really dark. Really exhausted. Also really excited for tomorrow. Should be uh really good. I slept from 10 to 4. Overall, uh really good night. It’s looking uh pretty cloudy today. I’m just very happy to be out here on the GR20. Really beautiful here. I can still see a little bit of the sea. That’s pretty funny. It’s pretty narrow and overgrown trail at times. Hard to believe there are 30,000 hikers every year. Maybe we’ve been gas lit or I’m just very early in the season. Probably both. Oh my. I just saw a pretty huge uh it’s under bolt, but it’s Yeah, it’s pretty far away. Still, it’s not nice. Like, I think there I saw the the thunderbolt. Striking. Yeah, the weather is just not good. I’m filming with my phone now. Put the camera away for the rain. And I’m actually on one of the highest points. I just uh have to get out of here before the thunder claps get here. It’s only half 8 in the morning, so I have an entire day in front of me. I definitely have enough food to make it to Vizavona without resupply. Really fast changing weather. Pretty interesting. The clouds are really coming my way. Pretty close in there. So, I better uh pack my stuff and start moving again. Isn’t Isn’t that amazing? little thunder clap, but it’s not so close, so should be fine. [Applause] Now, that is what I like to call a peak. And it has started raining again. I think I’m pretty close to the refuge. Not sure. Pretty ridiculous. Oh, I see a lot of tents. Probably the tents that people can rent. It means I am at the refuge. I feel like karma is getting more on my side. And now I am able to fit everything in my backpack. So that’s really uh really nice. The terrain is getting more technical. So walking with a shopping bag for uh for one and a half day it was fine. But for now it is definitely uh better to have the tracking pole which is my own tracking pole by the way. I was able to uh bring it to the island. [Applause] The wind is blowing so ridiculously hard. I’m not sure if I uh should do this, but still I’m doing it. I’m leaving this village by the weather does look a bit more okay on this side. I have to try to speak French. I did just didn’t feel like it. So that’s uh the actual reason why I continued. Not because I’m tough or anything. This is good. I can stay here peacefully. Well, this kind of sucks. It’s been raining and raining and raining. Staying a little dry under the trees, but it just sucks. And I’m just sitting here. It has been at least an hour. I’m not going to stay here like a sitting duck or anything. Dad gum it. Now, last night I could have gotten completely destroyed, but I didn’t. I hiked 1 hour back to BLA. It was so ridiculous. This is like a completely different world. Last night it was I could see only 10 m in front of me. So I think I made the right call to stop acting like a sitting duck and go back to Bavlla. Sometimes you just have to take a step back before you can make a big jump forward. So that’s what I did today. I’m trying to do two and a half stages to make up for the lost time. I think I will be able to do it. I will do it. Yes. Yes. Yes. This looks like pigs have been digging here for food. Coron pigs. [Applause] So, it took me 4 hours to reach AI now and I’m leaving it behind me. There it is. I’m uh continuing. It’s looking a little bit cloudy, but I’m going for it. I am climbing to 2,000 m right next to that peak and then I will go down again. But this is serious business. Now this is hiking surrounded by dark clouds. This is it. The highest point of the coil. Wow. Now, this is it. You could even climb that one. I don’t know. I want to uh move on [Applause] just below the clouds. However, in the north, I will climb Montasinto, the highest one. Now, that was the first snow. I am not intimidated at all by the snow. I mean, it’s just sitting there predictable. To be honest, I have no idea what I’m doing. I did not even read the guide book beforehand. I just bought it, showed it on camera on the announcement video of my plans, and that’s it. Uh, crazy island, and I’m hiking from south to north. So, when I I started reading, but you have to reverse everything and the sentences, it just doesn’t work. So, I just came here, started at the dolphin, which I chose myself on Google Maps, got my food, got almost destroyed by rain, and now I’m hiking this trail. There’s not much more to it, to be honest. It is really like a paradise like fairy tale country here like the tree like this everything is just very uh beautiful and nice to look at. Very nice. All those mosses but I think it also means this must be very wet area. It is hard to believe that it is still at 1500 m high. Does not feel like it. But I think that’s also why this is such a unique nature. I’ve never seen something like this before. Yep. That’s the course can pick. right there. This is not at all what I expected from a GR20. Made it. I hope to get far away from this river. I don’t like it anymore. At least the trail is marked. Uh again, there is a horse. Finally, a little bit of sun. Wow, that feels good. I’m just going to stay on this rock. Uh, so I feel a bit safer from uh all those animals. The only way on the rock is here. I did about 23 or 24 kilometers today, which is pretty good in this terrain. Oh, this is the hardest hike. I can do that. Can do that. Can do that. Pretty cold wind and some fuel. Finally. Wow. It is freezing cold. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And it’s gone. That was insane. And I can see the sea. Now, this is not an easy part, especially because of the wind. That is exhausting. [Music] Getting blown away. Whoosh. Now, this is ridiculous. I’m going to try it. But maybe the the fog maybe it means that there’s less wind. But we will see. Now the wind is still here. But I feel like I just have to fight through this. Even though the next refra, I just have to do this. The clouds uh might ruin the camera. Definitely happy with the fleece gloves and the wind pants. Oh, this is the hardest hike. I can do that. Can do that. Can do that. Ah, Karma is a [ __ ] boy. [Applause] Here we go again. So, from the last two hours yesterday, I have no footage. What happened is the heaviest day of my life, the 22nd of May, 2025. It was even tougher than the climb of peak dea in 2022 in the Pyrenees. This is it. Peak de la. What happened was basically what you saw on the video but much worse. 90 to 100 kilometer per hour wind which was confirmed by the Guardian. But on top of the ridge, it was probably more towards 200 kilometer per hour. I had to grab onto the ground to not grow blow away. And uh the vision it was only 10 m. But on top of that, it also started raining really heavily, which was because of the wind. It penetrated through everything. And I do not have a rain jacket. I only have a rain poncho with me, which usually it works, but with these winds, I did not even try to put it on the rain poncho. It It doesn’t work in these uh conditions. Now, you can probably imagine what happened. It is I was getting cold very fast. Hypothermia. I could almost not use my hands anymore. It got worse and worse. I was just keep going on. I was only focusing on following the white and red markers because I could not get out my phone because my hands were too cold and I did not want my phone to get destroyed by the rain. I got completely destroyed. Uh I kept going on and pushing on. It was I was only able to do this by pure grit and toughness. There was no technique or adventure IQ or whatever involved. It was just everything out of the window and just keep going, keep going, keep going. And it was also like a pretty technical uh hiking part with some scrambling. And on the parts that were a bit easier, I was just running. Sometimes I was even sprinting when the rain was so bad. I was running and sprinting to try to keep my body temperature high. I knew that if I kept going, I might be able to reach this refuge. At one point I was able to look at my phone. It looked like it’s maybe one hour to go. After that I did not look on my phone. I just kept going and going of trying to follow the signs which was not always as clear because there’s only 10 m vision. I was really focusing so hard and it h it was so tough. The vision was really only 10 meter or less even at some point and actually my right eye it was starting to see foggy maybe because of the cold. So I had one eye to look and then at some point I see these white tents from the next to the refuge and then I knew okay I survived. This was it. This was crazy. Uh I went inside. There were a lot of people there but there there was no heating because of the wind. They could not do it because of the smoke. I did not have dry clothes. So I was sitting there shaking and but it was uh I knew when I was inside I knew okay this is recovering. My body was already recovering from the hypothermia. [ __ ] man. Now another topic which is kind of separate from this but also influenced is I came here to do the entire GR20 of course from uh south to north. But last night I talked with a uh reliable Frenchman good hiker. Uh he came from the north and he has the Krampons and the Isax with him. He said because of the snow conditions, especially stage 4, it is a nogo if you don’t have the equipment. My GR20 ends at Fizzafon. [Music] Maybe we’ve been gas lit. [Music] Another days, another days. Waking up in this toxic haze. What the [ __ ] happened again? [Music] [ __ ] hopeless pigs. Will [ __ ] get better or will we die? Once someone cry writing songs to run the wrong we give up or will we die what writing songs it’s getting so tong we give up or will we die once once once upon a crime another Dream another scream to some place more to some place free. On top of the ashes of this society. It’s where we’ll start. It’s where we’ll be. [Music]

The Captain did not believe this is the hardest trail of Europe, and was going to show everyone how doable the GR20 is. Early on the Captain gets struck by bad luck, gaslighting and almost lightning bolts. He decides to just fight through it. This goes well until… Disaster strikes. Complete destruction while hiking Corsica’s GR20!