Eva zu Beck | |
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| Born | Ewa Bianka Zubek 26 April 1991 Poland |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford [1] |
| Occupations |
Formerly: Translator [2] |
| YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Genre | Travel vlogs |
| Views | 184 million |
| Last updated: October 2025 | |
| Website | evazubeck |
Eva zu Beck, officially Ewa Bianka Zubek (born 26 April 1991), is a Polish travel blogger and vlogger. [3] She hosted TRT World's show, A Place Called Pakistan, [4] and presented a Euronews YouTube miniseries called Rerouted: The Balkans. [5] She has also partnered with National Geographic and Deutsche Welle. She has travelled to 60 countries including Pakistan, where she lived for over a year, [6] [7] [8] Afghanistan, Yemen [9] [10] and Iraq. [11] [12] She went viral in 2018 after posting a "Kiki Challenge" video to celebrate Pakistan's independence day, dancing draped in the country's flag, which drew accusations of disrespecting the flag. [13] [14] [15] [16] She joined BBC's The Travel Show as a presenter, reporting on the clean-up of the Mexican wetlands from the canals of Xochimilco [17] and a 450 dog-sled race in Yukon, Canada, marking the 125th anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush. [18]
In early 2022 she began a road trip of the Americas while living in a converted Land Rover Defender that she named Odyssey, which she had shipped from Germany to Mexico. Her goal was to drive to the northern tip of Alaska and then to the southern tip of South America. [19] While her truck was en route to Mexico, zu Beck flew to Antarctica in early February 2022 where she was among a group that climbed to the summit of Mount Vinson, the Antarctic's tallest peak with a height of 4,892 m (16,050 ft). [20] In the fall of 2022, with Vilk, her German Shepherd puppy, she reached the northern tip of Alaska [21] and briefly swam in the frigid waters of the Arctic Ocean. She then drove south through the US and Canada again and re-entered Mexico. While still in Mexico, in March 2023, she abandoned her goal of driving to the southern tip of South America and took a break from vlogging. [22]
She participated together with Vilk in the 2024 Lapland Arctic Ultra, but dropped out after 100 km due to an unexpected paw injury suffered by Vilk. In July 2024, she finished in third position among women – and tenth overall – in the Gobi March 250 km ultramarathon. [23] In March 2025, she successfully completed the Lapland Arctic Ultra, 500 km distance. [24] Zu Beck starred in the show Superskilled with Eva zu Beck in 2024–2025, a travel series on National Geographic's YouTube channel. In 2024 she purchased a remote property in Poland and, in 2025, moved into a tent on the land. [25]
Zu Beck has written a memoir of her travels, The Wilder Way, scheduled for publication by Penguin Books in 2026. [26]
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Zu Beck was born on 26 April 1991 in Poland. In early childhood, she moved to England. [27] She studied German and French languages at the University of Oxford. She was married in her mid-20s but ended the marriage before launching her solo travel career. [28] [29] [30]