The Spitsbergen South to North-West is probably one of the toughest challenges on Svalbard. The expedition offers a unique route no people have ever skied before. You will experience northern lights, the return of the sun, sea ice, glaciers, mountains and wildlife. The 600+ kilometers long route offer exciting challenges and experiences.
Guide: Kristoffer Eide will be leading this expedition, you can read more about Kristoffer here.
Whats Included:
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The Spitsbergen South to North-West 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. After you have signed up for the trip, you will receive training tips and plans from us.
Day 1 to 3
Everyone arrives in Longyearbyen within 19th March. 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 start our transport to our starting point in the south.
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.