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Finse Polar Skills Challenge

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Learn the skills of polar travel and ski into a pristine polar wilderness to camp out in sub-zero temperatures.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

Foundations programme

The complete programme to prepare you psychologically, physiologically and nutritionally to succeed on your Challenge.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

Develop your expedition skills

In the same location that explorers Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton trained, you will learn the key polar expedition principles, such as navigation and learning to haul your own pulk.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

Stay at the iconic Hotel Finse 1222

Stay four nights in the historic Hotel Finse, with views across Lake Finsevann and the great Hardangerjøkulen glacier.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

Experience true polar wildnerness

Head into the snowy wilderness and camp in sub-zero climates ski-touring across remote polar terrain.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

Learn from record-breaking guides

Develop your polar expedition skillset under the expert guidance of establish polar explorers and Shackleton guides, Louis Rudd and Wendy Searle.

Finse in Western Norway is the home of polar training. Our introductory Challenge covers all the necessary elements required to safely ski-tour and camp in an extreme environment. You’ll build an array of skills over the course of two days, led by renowned polar guides and using the iconic Finse 1222 hotel as your base, before heading out into the wilderness to put it all into practice with a night camping on the snow.

Finse is a remote car-free village, only accessible by the ‘snowtrain’, with the hotel overlooking a vast frozen lake and the white mountains beyond. Finse has a unique place in polar history; Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton all trained here over a century ago in preparation for their expeditions to Antarctica.

  • 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
  • Pioener (L3): Create your own chapter in the history of exploration with long-range expeditions along untrodden paths
  • 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
  • 1. No experience required
  • 2. Foundational Challenge specific skills required
  • 3. Advanced Challenge specific skills required

Included

  • Foundations: Expedition Preparation Programme
  • Challenge-Specific Expedition Equipment (Loan):
  1. Pulk Jacket & 800-fill Down Jacket
  2. Skis, Boots, Pulks
  3. Camping Gear: Tents, sleeping bags, cooking equipment, expedition rations
  • Accomodation, Travel & Logistics during the Challenge

Not Included

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

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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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Finse Polar Skills Challenge
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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."

Equip yourself for the Finse Polar Skills Challenge