Team

Das Sailing SOUTH 2026 Expeditions Team

Skipper Selma Expeditions

Initiator Sailing SOUTH Expeditions

Expedition leader Shackleton Crossing

Piotr Kuzniar

Polar sailing enthusiast

Sailor, diver, adventurer, Antarctic pioneer, expedition leader and botanist.

Ocean Yacht Master since 1990.

With the Selma: circumnavigation of both Americas incl. Cape Horn and NW Passage. Sydney-Hobart Regatta, Ross Sea, Mt Erebus.

Skipper and partner of Sailing SOUTH 2024.

Expedition leader Sailing SOUTH 2026.

Christiane Paula Dalcolmo

Polar addicted sailor

Loves mountains, vastness, horizon, sea, snow and ice; Adventure(r)s and discovery stories.

On the way on foot, skiing and at sea.

In the wake: 14.000 nm Transatlantic, North Atlantic, Svalbard, Greenland, Antarctica, Southern Ocean.

Initiative and realisation Sailing SOUTH 2024.

Co-Expedition leader Sailing SOUTH 2026.

Thomas Ulrich

Explorer, adventurer, polar traveller

Lives for adventure.

Climber, guide, cameraman, paraglider, polar traveller, expedition leader, speaker.

In the ice and the Arctic: first crossing of the Patagonian Ice Sheet, Greenland Coast to Coast, North Pole, Arctic Solo, Franz Josef Land.

Expedition leader ski expedition South Georgia Crossing 2026

Crew

∑ 7-8 Fellow sailors and adventurers

Equipped with curiosity, a thirst for travel and adventure, sufficient time and a suitable budget.

Sailing experience advantageous and desirable.

Are you in? Then get in touch here