The Team

The expedition members, Thomas Sjogren (born in Sweden, now resident of US) and Tina Sjogren (born in former Czechoslovakia, political refugee in Sweden from the age of nine, now resident in the US) are not new to expeditions.

The Arctic expedition is their 9th expedition only in the past 5 years. T&T have earlier crossed jungles, sailed oceans and climbed for several years in the Himalayan mountains. T&T say that their ambition in life is simply to explore the unknown, get to intimately know this world, and reach for the stars.

Thomas has an education in Business, Tina in Natural Sciences. To fund their explorations, they early built a very down-to-earth enterprise in Sweden (household tissue delivery). 

Today, their acquired interest in technology brings with them unusual communication systems to be tried at the far ends of the world. Their main sponsor is Ericsson (Mobile systems). The guest sponsors are most often specialized technology companies such as The Swedish Space Corporation, Bath Ironwork Advanced Technology Labs of United States and Compaq. T&T are based in NYC, USA.

Other team members work at "base stations" in both Europe and the United States. These companies and individuals help programming software, solve arising technological emergencies, research equipment and operate the information flow from the expedition. The studies and expeditions are featured in detail on ExplorersWeb.

The goal of the entire ExplorersWeb team is to some day instantly and easily transmit mobile reports and pictures  from every corner of our world, straight into mobiles or other portable devices of choice. 

Thus bringing places like the Actic close to everyone. The drama of real life high adventure and the human spirit of exploration will then enter the day-to-day life of people.

"People cheer us on and that really helps in our darkest hours. We in turn inspire them, at our end sharing our shortcomings or success against odds. In that effect we are the modern gladiators. Except this game is based on personal growth and human discovery."