Name: Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge
Brand: Shackleton
SKU: SH-SC-L1-GIS-250
Price: 300918000.00 STD
Availability: InStock

GREENLAND

Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge

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The Mission:

Complete a multi-format journey across the Greenland ice-sheet and explore its unique glaciated coast.

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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

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

CHALLENGE OVERVIEW

The only permanent ice sheet on the planet outside Antarctica, the Greenland ice sheet is known as ‘Antarctica’s little sister’. It’s the perfect environment in which to test and hone advanced polar skills.

Working as a team, we’ll develop both resilience and competence in the elements required for a successful mission into one of the world’s most extreme environments. We’ll return to kayak amongst icebergs, sail through fjords, engage with indigenous communities and hike through mountainous valleys.

Once accessible only to its few thousand Inuit inhabitants and a handful of early explorers, Greenland is now opening itself to inquisitive travellers. Its recent time in the front pages has seen a surge in interest, but tourism is still in its infancy – and the east especially retains an otherworldly, almost alien feel.

The East coast hosts some of the world’s most majestic scenery. Towering peaks, glaciers, fjords and icebergs dominate. With conditions on our side, flying in with good visibility provides a visceral thrill. The view below turns from shifting sea ice (evoking that which trapped Endurance) to formidable icebergs and the most jagged glaciers encountered anywhere, the ice sheet stretching for a thousand miles beyond. Connected to no road network, it’s one of the least visited places on Earth. It’s truly wild, and a true test of character.

INVIGORATING EXPERIENCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

TAKE POLAR SKILLS TO THE NEXT LEVEL

The Ice Sheet Challenge is designed to push your limits in an environment as close to the Antarctic as possible. From weathering the savage piteraq wind (literally “that which means you harm”) to advanced navigation, the expedition will elevate your skillset and prepare you for the world’s most challenging polar adventures.

We’ll ski up to 15km a day – the ice sheet is predominantly flat, our pulks sliding easily - and sleep in tents in temperatures as low as -20 degrees outside. We’ll all learn how to set the nightly trip wire to protect the camp from polar bears. There’s not much to draw them this far inland as we’ll have helicoptered past the crevasse-ridden coastal edges, but it pays to be prepared.

After a helicopter back from our last camp on the ice sheet, we’ll base ourselves in Tasiilaq, a fascinating coastal settlement of 3,000 souls whose language is unique to the area. We’ll head out to kayak through awe-inspiring fjords, where towering icebergs rise like frozen giants. Their groans seem to echo across the water as the ancient ice cracks and moves.

KAYAK THROUGH ICEBERGS

We’ll immerse ourselves in the beauty of the pristine Arctic wilderness, reaching areas only accessible on foot. We’ll break trail in total solitude, traversing valleys, rivers, shale and crag, feeling dwarfed by towering glaciers and peaks.

HIKE THE COASTAL FJORDS

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Included

Foundations: Expedition Preparation Programme
Challenge-Specific Expedition Equipment (Loan):

Skis, Boots, Pulks
Camping Gear: Tents, sleeping bags, cooking equipment, expedition rations

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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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.

This level two Challenge requires a robust level of fitness, some solid experience on skis and ideally some familiarity with a polar environment. Our industry-leading Foundations programme details exactly how we recommend all team members make ready to play their part in helping everyone come through.

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

Discover Foundations

TAKE POLAR SKILLS TO THE NEXT LEVEL

INVIGORATING EXPERIENCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

HIKE THE COASTAL FJORDS

KAYAK THROUGH ICEBERGS

PREPARATION, FITNESS, SUITABILITY

CULTURAL IMMERSION

We’ll hike to our lunch in a remote Inuit home. We’ll spot more whales than many a dedicated expedition manages to see. We’ll absorb the eerie, ghost-town feel of a WW2 base, vehicles abandoned where they stood, and hear the history of local hunting from the only reliable source - local hunters.. You will remember this forever.

RECORD-BREAKING GUIDES

FOUNDATIONS

PROGRAMME

TESTIMONIALS

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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."