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North Pole - Ski the Last Degree • Travel over the sea ice to the top of the world • Immerse yourself in extreme wilderness High intensity journey by ski over the Last Degree to the North Pole. Initially, we partake in a training programme to introduce all the skills you will need to prepare you for the journey ahead. We then fly by light aircraft to the ice at 89º North and the start of the trek. The challenge of the journey comes from the ever-changing sea ice that moves constantly, making for challenging navigation and physical travel days. The daily journey takes seven to ten hours with the expectation that we will arrive at the North Pole on around day ten of this two week expedition to the very top of our precious world. Challenges aside, an expedition to the top of the world is an amazing experience. Standard Highly Supported Dates: April 8 - 25, 2020 April 3 - 17, 2020 Duration: 19 days (incl 5 days training) 15 days (including training) Departure: ex Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway Ratio: 1:4 1:2 Price: EUR€43,500 EUR€65,000
Crossing pressure ridges on the way to the North Pole. Photo Leifur Svavarsson
North Pole - All The Way • Polar travel in the steps of the early explorers • Incredible experience in the wildest frontier The North Pole is the ‘test piece’ of polar expeditions and a serious undertaking. Surrounded by sea ice and in total darkness for half the year, the North Pole is attainable only during a short ‘window’ of time. If too early, darkness and extremely cold temperatures prevail. If too late, the frozen Arctic Ocean melts into drifting pack ice enshrouded by water. The expedition will travel and live on the polar pack ice. Each day will be an adventure as we navigate over pressure ridges, search for routes around open leads of water, and set camp on multi-year pans of ice. Expedition members will be required to tow a laden sled and be an active contributor to camp setting and cooking procedures making for a very physical adventure. We all owe it to ourselves to express our true spirit of adventure, now you can achieve it on this amazing journey!
A journey to the North Pole is one of life’s great achievements. Photo Leifur Svavarsson
Dates: February 26 - April 25, 2020 Duration: 60 days Departure: start Resolute, Canada; finish Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway Price: on application
Polar Training Course • Learn polar travel skills We have established the Polar Training Course to expose you to the skills and techniques required to operate safely in the polar environment. Whether you are doing the Greenland icecap, South Pole or North Pole, this course will provide the content on which to develop your polar career. Your guide will take you into glacial terrain where you will operate as though you are in the polar regions, pulling sleds and establishing camps. Crevasse safety and navigation will be covered as well as rescue techniques. The course also includes some classroom training on the technical aspects of polar travel and you will be actively involved in the planning and preparation for your food and equipment. Dates: Ratio: Price:
July to November Duration: 4 days 1:1 Departure: ex Wanaka, New Zealand NZ$2,980 Pisa Range, NZ$5,500 Tasman Glacier
Three Peaks Greenland
Marching through the endless day. Photo Graham Charles/Adventure Philosophy
• A high-octane trip where we ascend the three tallest peaks in Greenland We initiate the journey in Iceland to fly by ski plane directly onto the glacier below Mt Gunnbjörn in the Watkins mountains on Greenland’s east coast in the Arctic wonderland. Each of the climbs involves big days of skinning up to where the peaks steepen. Here we transition to crampons, climbing roped the last few hours to the summit for startling Arctic panoramas over massive glaciers and craggy peaks. Once back at the skis you get to enjoy turns on the long cruise down-glacier back to camp. We’re that far north there is no need to worry about being caught out by sunset! After we’ve climbed Mt Gunnbjörn we pack up and move camp on our sleds closer to the Island’s 2nd and 3rd highest peaks, Mounts Cone and Dome, which we climb over the following two days. After two weeks on this journey the ski plane returns to whisk us back across the Denmark Strait to Iceland. Dates: May 13 - 25, 2020 Departure: ex Reykjavik, Iceland
Duration: 13 days Price: EUR€22,500 Polar training on New Zealand glaciers. Photo Andy Cole
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