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Sunnmøre Alps, Norway

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge

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Develop the technical skills required to operate in a winter alpine environment and apply them on an expedition across the Sunnmøre mountains.

Based in the mountainous heart of the world-renowned Norwegian fjords, this Challenge is an introduction to exploration into the mountains in the wintertime. From the haven of the Hotel Union Øye, the team will learn a range of techniques before putting them into practice on an expedition across the mountains.

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Develop winter mountain skills

Develop winter mountain skills: Learn to move across snow-covered mountain terrain using snowshoes, crampons, ice axes and snow anchors. Master mountain weather forecasting, avalanche awareness and navigation in the snow.

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Learn from world leading experts: Over a 25-year career, our lead mountain guide has summited K2 twice, Everest 8x, Vinson 19x as well as Lhotse, Cho Oyu and Manaslu, amongst many others.

Learn from world leading experts

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Explore the Norwegian fjords: Discover the grandeur and scale of some of the world’s longest and deepest fjords, navigating them aboard a Targa boat.

Explore the Norwegian fjords

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Expedition across the Sunnmøre Alps: The week culminates in a two-day expedition across part of the Sunnmøre mountain range, staying overnight in a mountain hut nestled in a hanging valley.

Expedition across the mountains

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Develop winter mountain skills

Develop winter mountain skills: Learn to move across snow-covered mountain terrain using snowshoes, crampons, ice axes and snow anchors. Master mountain weather forecasting, avalanche awareness and navigation in the snow.

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Expedition across the mountains

Expedition across the Sunnmøre Alps: The week culminates in a two-day expedition across part of the Sunnmøre mountain range, staying overnight in a mountain hut nestled in a hanging valley.

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Learn from world leading experts

Learn from world leading experts: Over a 25-year career, our lead mountain guide has summited K2 twice, Everest 8x, Vinson 19x as well as Lhotse, Cho Oyu and Manaslu, amongst many others.

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Explore the Norwegian fjords

Explore the Norwegian fjords: Discover the grandeur and scale of some of the world’s longest and deepest fjords, navigating them aboard a Targa boat.

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Foundations programme

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

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Stay at the historic Hotel Union Øye: Cradled between steep mountains beside a fjord is one of Europe’s most historically significant hotels. This was where Kaiser Wilhelm II holidayed, Arthur Conan Doyle worked on his Sherlock Holmes novels, William Slingsby ventured out to bring mountaineering to Norway and Edvard Grieg composed from the hotel piano. Step back into a bygone era of luxury.

Based in the mountainous heart of the world-renowned Norwegian fjords, this Challenge is an introduction to exploration into the mountains in the wintertime. From the haven of the Hotel Union Øye, the team will learn a range of techniques before putting them into practice on an expedition across the mountains.

Winter Mountain Skills Challenge
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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
Winter Mountain Skills ChallengeWinter Mountain Skills Challenge
  • 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
Winter Mountain Skills ChallengeWinter Mountain Skills Challenge
  • 1. No experience required
  • 2. Foundational Challenge specific skills required
  • 3. Advanced Challenge specific skills required
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Included

  • Foundations: Expedition Preparation Programme
  • Challenge-Specific Expedition Equipment (Loan):
  1. Vehicle: Motorcycle, all fuel, spares & mechanical support
  2. Camping: Tents, sleeping bags, mattresses, chairs, plates, cutlery
  3. Safety Gear for Activities 
  • 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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2026 Season Price

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$1,154,300

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$1,161,300VT

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SHACKLETON FOUNDATIONS

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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 Winter Mountain Skills Challenge