The Ben Nevis Expedition will be challenging, exciting, and beautiful. It offers an unique route few to none people have skied. You will experience glaciers, mountains, sea ice, all types of weather and wildlife. The 200+ kilometers long route offer exciting challenges and experiences.
Dates 2025: 29th April - 14th May (Tentative dates)
Who can join?
The Ben Nevis expedition is not a piece of cake. But, with the right training, guidance and equipment, almost everyone can make it. If you are already in good physical condition, six months of training is more than sufficient. It is beneficial to have some past experience with winter camping. It is however not a requirement and we are more than happy to provide help and training prior to the expedition.
Guides
Morten Tobias Rostille, Read about Morten here.
Traning camp
If you have no previous ski expedition experience, a training camp is mandatory before travelling to Svalbard. This camp will be held in Norway in January or February. During this time you will meet your fellow participants and practice for what lies ahead, such as pulling of pulkas, using the multifuel stove, winter camping, polar bear safety, glacier safety and so on.
Insurance
As on other travels it is wise to have your insurance in order. The Ben Nevis expedition is a special expedition requiring a special insurance. After registering for this trip you will receive guidance about what insurance you need, and who offers it.
Price
2025 – NOK 57.000,-
Including:
Not included:
Minimum participants: 5
Maximum participants: 10
Day 1 to 3 Preperations
After everyone has checked into their hotels and gotten sorted, we will meet and begin packing! We will spend this entire day, and the next for our preparations. On the third day we load our gear onto the boat and drive to our starting point for this adventure!
Day 4-13 Skiing
We are dropped of on the sea ice, in the land of polar bears, we make sure the conditions on the ice are good and ski towards the land and glaciers. We navigate up on glacier platous, through mountain passes and crevasse terrain to find the safe route North. The landscape changes every day and with sharp mountais and white glaciers its truly a sight you'll remember.
Day 14 Summit day
Waking up after a good night sleep on the beach with a drift wood campfire and polarbear guard we gear up to hike up Ben Nevis. It will take us a full day, hut hopefully the conditions are on our side and we manage to reach the summit midday. After catching our breath and enjoying the view we head back down and enjoy the last evening on the trip.
Day 15 Transport back
We'll be picked up by boat on the North-West corner of Spitsbergen and enjoy a comfortable trip back to Longyearbyen, on the way we'll be able to see aereas we skied through and plenty of wildlife spending their summer months on the shores of Spitsbergen. Earliest departure is midday on day 16, we do however recommend you get flexible tickest in case of bad weather.