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HikeVentures.com is a blog that covers mainly adventure travel and outdoor activities but also highlights cultural aspects of a destination. Moreover, we use our trips to test and review gear.

We believe that travel and the outdoors are a lot of fun and are not only for professionals. Almost everyone can enjoy it, especially if you know how. That is why we want to inspire people and bring those with similar interests together. We also believe that often we cannot and should not separate nature from culture either — a visit to a destination should be a wholesome experience. And just like the nature, the culture of each destination is unique and it is waiting for us, the visitors, to discover it.

We are two friends who share a passion for outdoors & travel and have a blog about it. We met in the Netherlands where we both studied International Tourism Management and even though we live in different countries now (while Konstantin is still in the Netherlands, Patrick lives in Finland), we stay close friends. TThroughout the years, we met regularly to go hiking and, later, packrafting and in 2012 we decided to start an outdoor adventure and travel blog together. We have been working on it over the last four and a half years and right now we have around 20 thousand unique visitors per month. But we still aim to make it even bigger and better. We continuously try to improve our blog and bring the best quality to our readers and partners.

Who are we?

What is HikeVentures?

Started as a hobby, this blog gradually grew into a serious venture, which helped us to establish close contact both with manufactures and destinations as well as outdoor participants themselves.

Around two thirds of our readers are male, mostly between 25 and 44. They come from a variety of countries which include the US, the UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland and France. These are the people who are interested in travelling and the outdoor. Besides the blog itself, we have social media accounts, with the continuously growing number of followers.

What we have achieved in 5 years?

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Companies we have worked with:

• Regular posts on our blog & social media channels

• Live videos on Instagram

• Trip reports and interviews (up to two weeks)

• Videos (up to three weeks)

• Gear testing (from one week to long-term tests up to a year)

• We are both married. Patrick’s wife is Finnish and Konstantin’s is Polish.

• Patrick has a lovely daughter, Fiona, and Konstantin has 7 bikes, three of which are constantly broken.

• Both of us work in Education — Patrick creates eLearning materials and works on projects related to VR,

Konstantin lectures on Tourism, Heritage and Adventure and is currently busy with his PhD related to the use of

modern equipment in the outdoors.

• • We both speak English to our wives even though, we can also speak Dutch, Finnish, German, Polish, Russian,

Spanish and Schwabish (which is different from the regular German).

• If put together, we have already visited 47 countries and we have studied Linguistics, ICT, Marketing, Tourism and

Service Management in five of them.

• Finally, while Patrick is a vegetarian and Konstantin enjoys meat, we both love tea.

Our policy is to be honest and write what we really think: if we like something — we say it. If there is something that can be better — we say it too. And this unbiased opinion is one of the benefits of working with us. Besides articles, we also take pictures and make videos, which are published on our blog and social media channels. If you are interested, we can provide them to you as well. FFor example, some of our pictures have been featured in a Korean magazine and on the websites of a number of our partners.

What can we mean for you?

We are ready to go on assignments

If you want to work with HikeVentures, please contact us at:

contact@hikeventures.com

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