It's not every day you get to sail a world-famous, Nobel Prize-nominated, teen activist across the seas on your yacht.
That's exactly what Australian couple Elayna Carausu and Riley Whitelum did with their crew in December, sailing 3200 nautical miles across the Atlantic Ocean to Lisbon, Portugal with Greta Thunberg and her dad. The mission? Get the Swedish activist to the annual U.N. climate conference COP25 in Madrid.
And now, there's a video of the trip.
Carausu and Whitelum have been sailing on their vessel, La Vagabonde, and YouTubing their adventures on the seas for five years, but this was a particularly high-profile project.
When first invited to speak at the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York City in September, Thunberg famously ditched planes and instead sailed for two weeks across the Atlantic Ocean in a zero-emissions sailboat, the Malizia II, to demonstrably reduce her carbon footprint.
Then, invited to speak at COP25, Thunberg put out the call on Twitter for a lift back across the Atlantic when the location moved from Chile's capital Santiago to Madrid due to civil unrest — and Whitelum and Carausu answered the call with La Vagabonde.
More videos will be released on the pair's YouTube page "during the following weeks" according to a tweet by Thunberg. The first video details how the journey came together, lets you poke around the sleeping quarters and innards of the boat, join in preparations and safety briefings, and find out how they even linked up with Thunberg in the first place.
Topics Activism Social Good YouTube
