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Welcome to my page! I'm Sam. My day job is at Google in Tokyo, and I'm outdoors the rest of the time.
I've been on 16 adventures. I'm looking for brands to come along on the next ones.
My expeditions in numbers
16
Expeditions since 2013
7
Disciplines
5,895m
Highest summit
Kilimanjaro
6,500m
Highest point reached
Aconcagua
40days
Longest single trip
Vietnam
Sixteen expeditions, since 2013
- Jun 2013Camino de Santiago
- Aug 2013Vietnam by motorbike
- Jun 2014O'Henro, Shikoku
- Sep 2015Mont Blanc, 4,808 m
- Oct 2016Paragliding licence
- 2017Kitesurfing
- Jul 2021GR20, Corsica
- Feb 2022Traversée du Jura
- Aug 2023Daisetsuzan Traverse
- Jan 2025Aconcagua
- Aug 2025Matterhorn, Hörnli Ridge
- Jan 2026Kilimanjaro, 5,895 m
- Jan 2026Serengeti and Ngorongoro
- Feb 2026Mt. Yotei
- May 2026Mt. Fuji
- May 2026Japan end to end by bike
A day job and a thirteen-year record
In June 2013 I walked out of Le Puy-en-Velay and kept going for two months, all the way to Santiago de Compostela. Six weeks later I was in Ho Chi Minh City, buying a motorbike I had learned to ride three days earlier, then riding it to Hanoi and back. Forty days, sleeping wherever people would have me.
Everything since has followed that shape. On Mont Blanc in 2015, the glacier training day on the Mer de Glace was the first time I had ever worn crampons. Five days later I was standing on the summit at dawn.
The record I'm proudest of includes the two times I turned around.
Aconcagua stopped me at 6,500 m in January 2025. The Matterhorn's Hörnli Ridge stopped me at roughly 3,800 m that August. Twelve months later I summited Kilimanjaro, then climbed and skied Yotei and Fuji.
The rest of the week I work in tech at Google, in Tokyo. That is not a footnote. It is why the planning is thorough, why deadlines get met, why a brief comes back on time and why the debrief is written rather than promised. Every one of these trips was built around a full-time job, which is also why the record is steady rather than spectacular: one objective at a time, for thirteen years.
Being based in Tokyo puts the Japanese mountains an early train away. Five of the sixteen are here.