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MESSNER START TO SOUTH POLE

About the expedition

Skiing to the South Pole is probably one of the toughest challenges you will face. The 1000 kilometers long route offer exciting challenges and experiences. 


Guide: Morten Tobias Rostille will be leading this expedition. Morten has skied to the South pole twice, in 2022/23 and 2024/25, in addition to multiple other expeditions. You can read more about Morten here.

Dates, price and availability

Dates: Early November 2026 to Late January 2027


Price 2026/7 – 1.800.000,- NOK 


AVAILABLE SPOTS: 3 

About the expedition

Whats included

  • All emergency equipment
  • Glacier equipment
  • All foods and drinks - regardless of special diet. We take pride in providing good meals and snacks for everyone.
  • Transport to start point and form the South Pole
  • All common equipment such as tents, stoves, pulkas.
  • Administrative costs.
  • Obligatory search and rescue insurance

Whats not included: 

  • Transport to and from Punta Arenas, Chile
  • Accommodation and food and drinks in Punta Arenas before and after the expedition
  • Travel insurance with special coverage for Antarctic expeditions


Who can join?

Skiing to the South Pole is no a piece of cake. You need to thrive in cold conditions and document previous expedition experience. This expedition will likely be your toughest yet, so good physical conditions is also very important.We will however, help you along the way. With personally made equipment lists, training schedules and other tips & tricks to make sure you will have the best expedition possible


Plan







Day 1 to 5

Everyone arrives in Punta Arenas. After everyone has checked into their hotels and gotten sorted, we will meet and begin packing! We will spend the next days packing food and preparing. On the fifth day we fly to Union Glacier, Antarctica. 








Week 1

The expedition starts at the south of Spitsbergen close to Sørneset, the Southernmost point of Svalbard. After reacing the point we turn North and ski past beautiful moutains and glaciers. This will be a beautiful week of skiing and we will se the sun for the first tine since arriving on Svalbard. 









Week 2

On week two we will ski up and down steep glaciers and find our way over sea ice and into the big vally of Reindalen. Full of reindeer we will have some nice and flat days of skiing. The days are getting longer, but it's stil pitch black dark at night and with clear skies we will have beautiful colours in the mountains and skies as the sun rises and sets. 








Week 3-4

during this week we'll find our way westward, over glaciers, frozen fjords and through vallys. at the end we'll ski up to the glacier plateou on the west coast of Spitsbergen and be sorrunded buy beautiful mountains around us.







Week 5

We are approaching our goal, but we are not there yet, we are navigating through crevasse terrain and keeping safe as we aproach the north western tip of Spitsbergen. At the finishpoint of the expedition we'll be picked up by boat, and a long journey back to town awaits us.

Do you want to join or have a question? Let us know!

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