Age 22

Over two years, he worked as an celestial navigator whose fieldwork spans over 720 days at sea and more than 20,000 kilometers sailed across the world’s oceans through celestial navigation expeditions.

He has been involved in major expeditions, including sailing the 77-foot sailing vessel Vinson of Antarctica from the Falkland Islands to Cape Town—over 8,000 kilometres across the Southern Ocean’s Furious Fifties and Roaring Forties—without GPS, relying solely on celestial navigation.