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Ski-tour into a pristine polar wilderness and camp out in sub-zero temperatures

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  • 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
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  • 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
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Women's Polar Skills Challenge

On the edge of the Hardangervidda and Hallingskarvet National Parks; Finse, Norway is a truly unique location and is steeped in polar history. It is right here that the polar greats of Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton, came to train for their own expeditions in the early 20th Century. Finse Polar Skills is our introductory Challenge covering all the necessary elements of a polar expedition. Led by record breaking polar guides, and using the iconic Finse 1222 hotel as your base, you will build a range of practical skills over the course of the week, before heading out into the wilderness to put it all into practice with a night camping on the snow. This wondrous location is only accessible by the snowtrain from Oslo or Bergen, considered to be one of the most scenic rail routes in the world.

Women's Polar Skills Challenge

Head into the snowy wilderness and camp in sub-zero climates, ski-touring and hiking across remote terrains.

Experience true polar wildnerness

Women's Polar Skills Challenge

Pioneering in the space

In an inclusive, all-woman environment, learn the key polar expedition principles, such as navigation and learning to haul your own pulk.

Women's Polar Skills Challenge

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

Stay at the iconic Hotel Finse 1222

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Included

  • Foundations expedition preparation programme
  • All Challenge specific expedition & camping equipment
  • Loan of Challenge specific clothing (Pulk jacket & Down jacket)
  • Accommodation, food & drink
  • Food whilst on expedition
  • In-country travel & logistics throughout the duration of the Challenge

Not Included

  • Return flights to Norway
  • 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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2025 Season Price

ден 545,600.00

2026 Season Price

ден 564,100.00 MKD

Women's 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.

Women's Polar Skills Challenge

Pioneering in the space

In an inclusive, all-woman environment, learn the key polar expedition principles, such as navigation and learning to haul your own pulk.

Women's Polar Skills Challenge

Experience true polar wildnerness

Head into the snowy wilderness and camp in sub-zero climates, ski-touring and hiking across remote terrains.

Women's Polar Skills Challenge

Foundations programme

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

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ден 545,600.00

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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."

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