Hello, I am currently making some updates and changes to my website, should be done shortly, thanks for understanding, Sam. 

Welcome to the website of adventurer, outdoor enthusiast and explorer Sam Hoys. Sam has been 'out there' on our beautiful planet for almost a decade. His Never-Stop-Exploring attitude got him to see large parts of Europe, Canada, Asia, Australia, South and Central America and North Africa at the age of 35. 

Sam makes a living working as a free lance adventure and trekking guide for several adventure travel companies and runs a handful of his own private tours per year to his favorite destinations. 

On this website you can follow Sam on his travels around the world, get an inside view of countries that have inspired Sam, check out Sam's private tours and his travel blog. This site is for  travellers and adventurers who share Sam's passion of exploring our beautiful planet. Enjoy!

A true story and important life lesson

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, "What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?" and my answer must at once be, "It is no use." There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron.

We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

- Sir George Leigh Mallory, 1922