{"id":110151,"date":"2025-11-19T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/?p=110151"},"modified":"2025-11-19T01:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:56:52","slug":"latvian-adventurer-karlis-bardelis-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/latvian-adventurer-karlis-bardelis-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvian Adventurer Karlis Bardelis Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Latvian adventurer Karlis Bardelis has died at the age of 40. 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRMR0n9jPZs\/\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">See this post on Instagram<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adventure defined the last decade of Bardelis\u2019 life. In 2016, he embarked on an eight-year journey to circumnavigate the globe under his own power. Combining rowing and cycling, he traveled 58,298km over 2,898 days, circling the Earth to return to his starting point in Namibia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the course of his <a href=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/karlis-bardelis-completes-round-the-world-trip-2\/\">round-the-world journey<\/a>, he became the first person to row from South America to Asia, and the first to row from Asia to Africa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the years, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ExplorersWeb<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/karlis-bardelis-first-person-to-row-from-south-america-to-asia\/\"> interviewed Bardelis<\/a> on several occasions, and what always came through was his positivity and the joy he found in the challenges he set himself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen you see a child playing around, and he\u2019s full of energy, jumping around all over the place, you never ask, Where do you get this motivation from? It\u2019s just there. Like internal nuclear power. It\u2019s the same for me. I never needed any extra or external motivation. It was just there,\u201d he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yFlSp17rTjY?si=yoYJSyJqF512rlkt\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Becomes an adventurer<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He decided to become an adventurer after reading Nick Bullock\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Echoes: One Climber\u2019s Hard Road to Freedom. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking about that decision, he said, \u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I deliberately read it really, really slowly, because I already knew what decision I was going to make by the end of this book: That I would quit my stable job and try to find my way as a full-time adventurer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From that moment, he didn\u2019t look back. In 2013, he crossed Europe from North Cape in Norway to Gibraltar on Nordic skates. A few months later, he cycled from his home in Latvia to the Sochi Olympics. Later in 2014, he skied 750km from Russia to Norway. After this, he started planning his circumnavigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_100947\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100947\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100947\" src=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Capture-nj-e1734303930646.jpg\" alt=\"man on wharf beside his bicycle\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Capture-nj-e1734303930646.jpg 800w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Capture-nj-e1734303930646-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Capture-nj-e1734303930646-700x508.jpg 700w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Capture-nj-e1734303930646-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-100947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Karlis Bardelis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He started by rowing from Namibia to Brazil with a friend, then he cycled to Peru with his girlfriend. His 26,000km row across the Pacific to Malaysia was completely solo, but he did stop at several islands along the way to wait out storms and hurricane seasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He rowed part of the Indian Ocean with fellow circumnavigator Dimitri Kieffer. After parting ways in the Maldives, he continued on to Tanzania. Winds carried him too far and he was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/round-the-world-trip-lands-karlis-bardelis-dangerous-somalia\/\">land in Somalia<\/a>. After sorting out the logistical nightmare of landing in that war-torn country, he rowed back to Tanzania and cycled across five countries in Africa to get back to Namibia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI never took it as a done deal before I jumped in the ocean in L\u00fcderitz in Namibia, where I started.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_100944\" style=\"width: 1558px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100944\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100944\" src=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Captureju.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1548\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Captureju.jpg 1548w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Captureju-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Captureju-700x392.jpg 700w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Captureju-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Captureju-1536x860.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1548px) 100vw, 1548px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-100944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Karlis Bardelis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Falls ill<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less than a year after completing his journey, in February 2025, Bardelis suffered a stroke after a blood vessel in his brain burst. He suffered paralysis on one side of his body. During surgery, doctors discovered a malignant brain tumor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite treatment, his health continued to decline. His family shared the following message yesterday: \u201cWith light and loving sadness, we would like to announce that yesterday, November 17, 2025, our beloved son, brother, husband, friend, and infinitely good man Karlis Bardelis went into his ocean of eternity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latvian adventurer and global circumnavigator Karlis Bardelis has died at the age of 40 after being diagnosed with a brain tumor earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2117,"featured_media":93190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[99],"coauthors":[142],"class_list":["post-110151","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-rowing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Latvian Adventurer Karlis Bardelis Dies &#187; 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