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GREENLAND

Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge

Journey across the Greenland ice-sheet and explore its unique glaciated coast.

Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge

Foundations programme

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

Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge

Kayak through icebergs

Experience the thrill of kayaking through awe-inspiring fjords, where towering icebergs rise from the water in remarkable formations like frozen giants. Hear the crack and groan of ancient ice moving echo across the water.

Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge

Hike the coastal fjords

Immerse yourself in the raw, untouched beauty of the Arctic wilderness, reaching areas only accessible on foot. Break trail in total solitude, traversing valleys, rivers, shale and crag, feeling dwarfed by towering glaciers, impressive peaks.

Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge

Antarctica's little sister

Often called Antarctica's Little Sister for its strikingly similar landscape of vast, pristine ice fields and formidable polar conditions. This Challenge offers an unparalleled opportunity to experience the closest environment to Antarctica, testing your endurance on sweeping glacial plains.

Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge

Take polar skills to the next level

Refine your expertise on an expedition designed to push your limits and simulate the Antarctic environment. From weathering piteraqs to advanced navigation, this journey will elevate your skillset and prepare you for the world’s most challenging polar adventures.

Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge

EXPERIENCE EXTRAORDINARY WILDLIFE

Travel through the habitat of whales, including minke, fin, humpback and narwhal. Look out for mammals including arctic fox, arctic hare and the almighty polar bear.

On the east coast of Greenland lies some of the world’s most majestic and untouched scenery. In an area four times the size of the UK lives only 3,000 people. When one thinks about Greenland one thinks of the polar ice sheet. Indeed, much of the island is covered in the other worldly landscape which is the second largest body of ice on the planet – ‘Antarctica’s little sister’. But a different world lies on the coast - dominated by towering mountains, glaciers, fjords and icebergs. With no road network this is one of the least visited places on earth and is truly wild.

The Greenland Challenge is designed to take your polar skills to an advanced level through an itinerary of skiing across the ice sheet, sailing through fjords, canoeing past iceberg fields and hiking through mountainous valleys.

  • 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. Skis, Boots, Pulks
  2. 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.

$10,852.00

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Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge
Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge
Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge

“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 Greenland Ice Sheet Challenge