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Finse Polar Skills Challenge

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

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

Follow in the ski tracks of Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Norwegian titan, Amundsen, whilst learning all the skills necessary to survive and thrive in the polar wilderness.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

Stay at the iconic Hotel Finse 1222

Prepared to be wowed by the magnificent view of the frozen Lake Finsevann and Hardangerjokuln glacier from the back of the iconic Hotel Finse 1222. Sir Ernest himself stayed in this very hotel and his image adorns the wall of the reception area.

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

Experience true polar wildnerness

Head into the very snowy wilderness that Norwegian polar explorer, Roald Amundsen, described as a "mini-Antarctica"

Finse Polar Skills Challenge

Learn from record-breaking guides

Learn from the very best as you develop your polar expedition skillset under the leadership and guidance of our record-breaking team.

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 The Boss, Sir Ernest 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.

  • 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
  • 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

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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