A lone baobab against a moody northern Madagascar sky
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Madagascar

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Rainforest, coastline & dramatic terrain · Northern Madagascar · 2025

Northern Madagascar Ankarafantsika · UNESCO EP01 field pack
Field testing Madagascar — a natural testing ground

Northern Madagascar — remote, breathtakingly beautiful, and largely untouched by modern development. An ideal natural testing ground.

Location
Northern Madagascar
Park
Ankarafantsika · UNESCO World Heritage
Terrain
Rainforest · coastline · pinnacles
Conditions
Extreme terrain · unpredictable weather
Products
EP01 field pack
Result
A natural proving ground
Log

Northern Madagascar is a remote, breathtakingly beautiful region — rich in biodiversity and, fortunately, largely untouched by modern development. It includes Ankarafantsika National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Pristine rainforest, rugged coastline, and unusual, dramatic landscapes — largely as they have always been.

Why hereIts extreme terrain and unpredictable weather make it an ideal natural testing ground for outdoor equipment.

A figure with the EP01 pack among dramatic eroded rock pinnacles
Dramatic landscapes

Unusual, dramatic terrain — pristine, and largely untouched.

Northern Madagascar
By the numbers

Northern Madagascar.

4thlargest island on earth
90%wildlife found nowhere else
6endemic baobab species
1UNESCO World Heritage park
From the field

Madagascar, up close.

Helicopter access, dramatic terrain, and the pack along for all of it.

A helicopter on the ground in northern Madagascar
By helicopter
Scouting the terrain from above
Scouting from above
Carrying the EP01 pack into the field
Into the field
Largely untouched

Remote, breathtakingly beautiful, and rich in biodiversity.

Northern Madagascar