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SUNNMØRE ALPS, NORWAY

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

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The Mission:

Develop the technical skills required to operate in a winter alpine environment and apply them on an expedition across the Sunnmøre mountains.

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RD$ 666,800.00

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Winter Mountain Skills Challenge
Winter Mountain Skills ChallengeWinter Mountain Skills Challenge
  • 1: Ability to hike for a day of 6 hours with a backpack
  • 2: Ability to hike for 4 consecutive days of 6 hours with a backpack
  • 3: Ability to hike for over one week in consecutive days of 6 hours with a backpack
Winter Mountain Skills ChallengeWinter Mountain Skills Challenge
  • Discover (L1): Learn fundamental skills that enable you to operate in extreme environments
  • Explore (L2): Develop your capability with longer, more demanding and self-sufficient expeditions Pioneer
  • Pioneer (L3): Create your own chapter in the history of exploration with long-range expeditions along untrodden paths
Winter Mountain Skills ChallengeWinter Mountain Skills Challenge
Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

Based in the mountainous heart of the world-renowned Norwegian fjords, this Challenge is an introduction to exploration into the mountains in the wintertime. From the haven of the Hotel Union Øye, the team will learn a range of techniques before putting them into practice on an expedition across the mountains.

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

Learn to move across snow-covered mountain terrain using snowshoes, crampons, ice axes and snow anchors. Master mountain weather forecasting, avalanche awareness and navigation in the snow.

Develop winter mountain skills

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

Learn from world leading experts

Over a 25-year career, our lead mountain guide has summited K2 twice, Everest 8x, Vinson 19x as well as Lhotse, Cho Oyu and Manaslu, amongst many others.

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

Discover the grandeur and scale of some of the world’s longest and deepest fjords, navigating them aboard a Targa boat.

Explore the Norwegian fjords

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

The week culminates in a two-day expedition across part of the Sunnmøre mountain range, staying overnight in a mountain hut nestled in a hanging valley.

Expedition across the Sunnmøre Alps

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Included

  • Foundations: Expedition Preparation Programme
  • Challenge-Specific Expedition Equipment (Loan):
  1. Camping: Tents, sleeping bags, mattresses, chairs, plates, cutlery
  2. Safety Gear for Activities
  • Accommodation, Travel & Logistics during the Challenge

Not Included

  • Return flights to start destination
  • Expedition Kit List
  • Personal Insurance

SHACKLETON DESIGN & MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD (“Shackleton”) BOOKING CONDITIONS 

These Booking Conditions (“Booking Conditions”), together with our Privacy Policy, Acknowledgment of Risk form and any other written information we brought to your attention before we confirmed your booking, form the basis of your contract with Shackleton of Flint Buildings, 1 Bedding Lane, Norwich NR3 1RG with company number: 07169051 (“Shackleton” “we”, “us”, “our”). Please read them carefully as they set out our respective rights and obligations. In these Booking Conditions references to "you" and "your" include the first named person on the booking and all persons on whose behalf a booking is made or any other person to whom a booking is added or transferred.

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Current Season Price

RD$ 666,800.00

Following Season Price

RD$ 688,600.00

WHY COME WITH SHACKLETON

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

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AUTHENTIC EXPEDITIONS

Every Shackleton Challenge has a central mission designed to develop the physical, mental and emotional strength required to access our untapped performance potential. While all challenges will stretch us to a degree, none will defeat us. We come through as a team.

 

SHACKLETON SPIRIT

Shackleton Challenges embody the enlightened leadership so central to the Boss’s own ethos, with empathy and encouragement at the centre. Our committed guides come with invaluable experience in tackling multi-day expeditions and a deep well of environmental wisdom and lively anecdotes. The contrast between daytime achievement and team-wide conviviality in the evenings is a distinctive feature of Shackleton Challenges that marks us out as different in kind.

LIFELONG RETURNS

The trials overcome will evolve into resources that you’ll draw on for the rest of your life, applicable to all kinds of situations where you’ll need to take the lead.

 

Memories made will abide. Like most of our Challenges alumni, you’ll probably stay in touch with the rest of the team.

The Challenge covers steep terrain, and climbing through deep snow with a pack and snow shoes requires a good level of fitness and mobility - but previous winter mountaineering experience is not essential. Our industry-leading Foundations programme will help all expedition members prepare to play their part in the team effort.

"It was probably the best experience of my life so far."

"Inarguable proof that my physical and mental strength is far more than I ever gave myself credit for."

"It had only been a short expedition but I was already planning my next – it turns out there’s no turning back once you’ve had a taste of real adventure."

"The journey is as much inward as it is outward."

"I felt a huge appreciation for the natural world and people who encompass the spirit of endurance."

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

The Challenge covers steep terrain, and climbing through deep snow with a pack and snow shoes requires a good level of fitness and mobility - but previous winter mountaineering experience is not essential. Our industry-leading Foundations programme will help all expedition members prepare to play their part in the team effort.

Discover Foundations

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

Learn from world leading experts

Over a 25-year career, our lead mountain guide has summited K2 twice, Everest 8x, Vinson 19x as well as Lhotse, Cho Oyu and Manaslu, amongst many others.

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

Develop winter mountain skills

Learn to move across snow-covered mountain terrain using snowshoes, crampons, ice axes and snow anchors. Master mountain weather forecasting, avalanche awareness and navigation in the snow.

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

Expedition across the Sunnmøre Alps

The week culminates in a two-day expedition across part of the Sunnmøre mountain range, staying overnight in a mountain hut nestled in a hanging valley.

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

Explore the Norwegian fjords

Discover the grandeur and scale of some of the world’s longest and deepest fjords, navigating them aboard a Targa boat.

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

The Challenge covers steep terrain, and climbing through deep snow with a pack and snow shoes requires a good level of fitness and mobility - but previous winter mountaineering experience is not essential. Our industry-leading Foundations programme will help all expedition members prepare to play their part in the team effort.

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

Stay at the historic Hotel Union Øye

Cradled between steep mountains beside a fjord is one of Europe’s most historically significant hotels. This was where Kaiser Wilhelm II holidayed, Arthur Conan Doyle worked on his Sherlock Holmes novels, William Slingsby ventured out to bring mountaineering to Norway and Edvard Grieg composed from the hotel piano. Step back into a bygone era of luxury.

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RD$ 666,800.00

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“The journey is as much inward as it is outward.”

"At the end of this experience I truly felt as if I had conquered a side of myself that didn’t believe intense physical challenges were something for me."

“It was probably the best experience of my life so far."

Sign up to find out more about the Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge
Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

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