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Acquire the fundamental skills of polar travel and camp out in sub-zero temperatures in the majestic Norwegian high plateau.

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Finse Polar Skills Challenge
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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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Finse Polar Skills Challenge

The Finse Polar Skills Challenge is designed to give a hands-on experience of all the elements required for a future expedition to the world’s extremities. Our base is the Finse 1222 hotel, named after its elevation above sea level on the plateau where Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen came to train for Antarctica.

Over a packed week, we’ll build a range of practical skills in the snow behind the hotel, before heading out into the wilderness to put it all into practice with a night camping on the ice.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

From exhilarated arrival after dark to reluctant departure, Finse stretches the senses and piles on the skills.

Two days in, you’ll be confident on all the essentials. From there on it’s all about gaining familiarity before putting it all into practice on our overnight snow camp.

INVIGORATING EXPERIENCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF POLAR TRAVEL

Learning Telemark skiing takes some adjustment - but once mastered, progress becomes twice as efficient, with smooth momentum the aim. Hauling a loaded pulk up a slope involves sidestepping techniques; coming down the other side requires a whole different knack.

We’ll survey for crevasse fields and become familiar with avalanche alerts, detection & response protocols. We’ll be taught how to keep our high-calorie snacks edible without breaking the teeth and our batteries working in the cold.

We’ll prepare muscles and skis for a day’s trek, and dress to avoid exposed skin. We’ll learn to pitch camp on the snow, and to melt just enough of it to hydrate our food and keep us warm.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

We’ll traverse up to 20km of varied terrain as a team, keeping spirits up and support to the fore.

We’ll each take a turn in leading, compass in hand.

We’ll set up camp amid acres of pristine polar landscape: few sleepovers occur in such a remote location. Despite conditions outside that can reach -20 with wind chill, it’s warm enough inside. The night is spent in welcome comfort and conviviality.

A NIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

Steeped in the Shackleton legend, Hotel Finse 1222 comes with magnificent views of the frozen Lake Finsevann and the glacier beyond. The inside is as welcoming as only Norwegians know how: firewood, food, friendship and fulfilment.

SPECTACULAR HOSPITALITY

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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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Current Season Price

S/. 32,819.00

Following Season Price

S/. 33,928.00 PEN

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.

While this Level One Challenge can adapt to a wide range of fitness levels, the Boss came here for a reason: it can easily catch out the unprepared. Our Foundations programme details exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through smiling.

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

While this Level One Challenge can adapt to a wide range of fitness levels, the Boss came here for a reason: it can easily catch out the unprepared. Our Foundations programme details exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through smiling.

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Finse Polar Skills Challenge

LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF POLAR TRAVEL

Learning Telemark skiing takes some adjustment - but once mastered, progress becomes twice as efficient, with smooth momentum the aim. Hauling a loaded pulk up a slope involves sidestepping techniques; coming down the other side requires a whole different knack.

We’ll survey for crevasse fields and become familiar with avalanche alerts, detection & response protocols. We’ll be taught how to keep our high-calorie snacks edible without breaking the teeth and our batteries working in the cold.

We’ll prepare muscles and skis for a day’s trek, and dress to avoid exposed skin. We’ll learn to pitch camp on the snow, and to melt just enough of it to hydrate our food and keep us warm.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

INVIGORATING EXPERIENCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

From exhilarated arrival after dark to reluctant departure, Finse stretches the senses and piles on the skills.

Two days in, you’ll be confident on all the essentials. From there on it’s all about gaining familiarity before putting it all into practice on our overnight snow camp.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

SPECTACULAR HOSPITALITY

Steeped in the Shackleton legend, Hotel Finse 1222 comes with magnificent views of the frozen Lake Finsevann and the glacier beyond. The inside is as welcoming as only Norwegians know how: firewood, food, friendship and fulfilment.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

A NIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS

We’ll traverse up to 20km of varied terrain as a team, keeping spirits up and support to the fore.

We’ll each take a turn in leading, compass in hand.

We’ll set up camp amid acres of pristine polar landscape: few sleepovers occur in such a remote location. Despite conditions outside that can reach -20 with wind chill, it’s warm enough inside. The night is spent in welcome comfort and conviviality.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

While this Level One Challenge can adapt to a wide range of fitness levels, the Boss came here for a reason: it can easily catch out the unprepared. Our Foundations programme details exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through smiling.

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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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Finse Polar Skills Challenge
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