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Haul a pulk 80km over a 5-day expedition, camping in sub-zero temperatures

Finse Expedition Challenge

Foundations programme

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

Finse Expedition Challenge

Increase your resilience

Tackle challenging terrain, camping in extreme cold weather, hauling pulks, navigation, crevasse and safety drills, and freeze-dried rations.

Finse Expedition Challenge

Build self reliance

With support from our expert guides, learn to navigate through the mountains of Hardangervidda National Park.

Finse Expedition Challenge

Experience sub-zero temperatures

Explore frozen valleys and lakes with steep climbs and descents in a landscape similar to Antarctica.

This Challenge contains all the elements of a true polar expedition: 5 days of extreme cold weather, complete isolation, extended pulk-hauling, navigation, crevasse and safety drills, freeze-dried rations and camping out in snow and ice. The 80km loop Finse weaves its way over arduous terrain and includes a crossing of Hardangerjokulen, one of the country’s largest glaciers - a remarkable landscape that bears a striking resemblance to Antarctica. Develop advanced expedition skills and self reliance, increase your resilience and strive towards your goal - the roaring fire and hospitality of the Finse 1222 hotel.

  • 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. Pulk Jacket & 800-fill Down Jacket
  2. Skis, Boots, Pulks
  3. 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

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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 Expedition Challenge
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Finse Expedition 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 Finse Expedition Challenge