Skiers and sleds on the ice at low sun
Polar Primer 2027

Your First Days on the Ice

On the ice March 28 to April 1, 2027. Nine days total, including the coaching days around it. Train on the ice with someone walking the road to the South Pole.

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My own road started exactly here. A polar primer in 2024, in Svalbard, where I learned the basics you cannot skip. Navigation, camp work, cold, hauling a sled. Two years later I crossed Greenland. Now I am taking a small group onto the ice the same way, with the coaching wrapped around it. This is not a tour. It is the first real step onto the ice, done properly.

Nine days, built in three parts. Coaching before we go, so you arrive prepared in your head, not just your kit. Then the ice, March 28 to April 1, learning the skills that matter. Skis, sleds, camp routines, staying warm, staying moving. Then coaching after, because what you find out about yourself out there deserves more than a flight home and a photo album.

Before Coaching

You arrive prepared in your head, not just your kit. We work on what the ice is going to ask of you before you get there.

On the Ice March 28 to April 1

The skills that matter. Skis, sleds, camp routines, staying warm, staying moving. Your first real days on the ice.

After Coaching

What you find out about yourself out there deserves more than a flight home and a photo album. We work it into something you keep.

You do not need to be an expedition athlete. You need to be curious about what you are capable of, reasonably fit, and ready to be uncomfortable in the best way. Some people come because the ice is calling them. Some come because they want to test themselves somewhere real, with structure and safety around them. Both are right.

On the ice in Svalbard
Northern lights over the tents on the ice

This primer is a leg of something larger. I am on a five year road to the South Pole, solo and unsupported, in 2030. The same ice that is training me can train you. That is what makes this different from every other trip out there.

See the road to the South Pole

Dates On the ice March 28 to April 1, 2027. Nine days total, including the coaching days around it.
Location Svalbard, in the high Arctic.
Group Size A small group. [Exact number to be confirmed.]
Fitness Reasonable fitness. No expedition experience needed. If you can walk a long day and carry yourself, you are in range.
Included Coaching before and after, on-ice instruction and guiding, group expedition kit, and camp logistics on the ice. [Full inclusions list to be confirmed.]
Not Included Flights to Svalbard, personal clothing and boots, travel insurance, and anything outside the programme days. [Full exclusions list to be confirmed.]

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