Across Three Arctic Nations
Three country cairn, Sweden
25 March–2 April
9 days
8 guests + 2 guides
Level 2 or similar tour
18+ yrs
25,500 SEK
Love a real challenge? This is for you.
You gotta come with proper ski touring and winter camping experience to join this one! Our Level 3 is seven days of winter camping in unknown terrain inside the Arctic Circle. Each expedition is a one-off – a new location every tour. It’ll be cold. It’ll be all kinds of weather conditions coming our way. It’ll be wonderful!
Becoming an independent explorer.
Your adventure starts long before the actual trip. You’re part of all the stages of pre-planning too! We decide on a route as a crew and plan every part of the expedition together. The tent buddy teams take turns leading the pack. Although your guides are there to assist, this is about independence! Unless you're really off the rails, what you decide on pretty much goes.
2026: Across three Arctic nations
This is doing the north for real! Over seven Arctic days, we’ll ski to and beyond the Three-Country Cairn where Finland, Sweden, and Norway meet. From Finland’s silver lake and Saana rising above it, to Sweden’s great white dome of Pältsa and boundless tundra, to Norway’s high plateaus with horizons that fall toward the fjords. Epic!! It truly fits for this one.
Finland - Saana and the Silver lake
We begin in Finland, at Kilpisjärvi, where the great fell of Saana towers above the village. Its steep cliffs and broad plateau are steeped in Sámi legend, and below it lies the long silver expanse of Lake Kilpisjärvi. Early on, we reach the Three-Country Cairn, a modest marker where Finland, Sweden, and Norway meet. On the map, it’s a border, but out here it feels like the opposite – a shared wilderness flowing seamlessly across three Arctic nations.
Sweden – the Pältsa Massif and open tundra
Crossing into Sweden, we enter a vast, treeless tundra. Rising above it all is Pältsa, Sweden’s northernmost mountain – a bright white dome drawing us closer day by day. Reaching its summit is a true Arctic milestone! We follow the southeast rib as far as conditions allow, climbing steadily until the view opens wide on every side. From here we see it all: Kilpisjärvi shimmering to the east, Norway’s rugged mountains rolling toward the fjords in the west, and Sweden’s endless fell country stretching south.
Norway – high plateaus and fjord horizons
In Norway, the borderlands rise into broad, windswept plateaus, with cairns marking the ridges. After a gradual climb across the tundra, the land suddenly drops away – revealing deep fjords carved into the mountains toward the Atlantic. On clear days, the Lyngen Alps appear on the horizon, sharp and dramatic against the sky. It’s a vivid contrast to the smoother domes of Sweden and the gentler fells of Finland.
Youths: –1,000 SEK
Deposit: 1,000 SEK at the time of booking
* Pay in full before March 31st
** 7 people or more
Deposit: 1,000 SEK at the time of booking
A proper Arctic expedition
We spend a full week winter camping in the Arctic. If conditions allow, we'll trek up to one of the peaks. After this expedition, you should feel confident enough to plan and execute your own independent winter adventures without a guide!
7 days of ski touring and winter camping
First and last nights' accommodation in cabin near location
Learn from fun and experienced guides
Top quality gear
Breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinners
Transfer Kiruna Airport
Dates
25 March–2 April (2026)
24 March-1 April (2027, location to be determined, bookable now)
Transfer times
Pickup: 14:00 at Kiruna Airport (for flight arriving 13:35)
Dropoff: 11:45 at Kiruna Airport (for flight departing at 13:45)
Getting to Kiruna
Scandinavian Airlines fly from Stockholm Arlanda Airport.
Overnight trains run from Stockholm to Kiruna (cheaper than flights).
Prerequisites
Age limit, 18 years
Our Level 2 Winter Expedition or another multi-day trip on touring skis that includes winter camping, navigation and self-sufficiency.
Unsure if experienced enough, send us an email please.
Payment
1,000 SEK deposit per person at the time of booking, remaining balance due 6 weeks prior to your departure.
Cancellations
Full refund up until 6 weeks prior to your departure. 50% refund up until 3 weeks prior. No refund less than 3 weeks prior.
Accommodation
Shared twin rooms in cabin.
Shared Hilleberg Keron 3 GT tents during expedition.
This adventure starts long before you arrive in Sweden. Together, we decide on a route and plan every part of the expedition as a team.
How do we get there? What conditions can we expect? What do we eat? What gear do we need? What are the tent-buddy teams? Who’s responsible for which days? What could go wrong?
Once the big questions are sorted, we create a detailed expedition plan – checking gradients and elevation on maps, assessing risks, and noting precautions for different stretches. We decide on proposed distances for each day and mark possible camp spots, including alternate scenarios in case of severe weather.
We also discuss everyone’s strengths, weaknesses, and wishes, and set aside time in the itinerary for skill training or personal goals — like digging emergency bivouacs or trekking to a summit.
It all sounds so serious! Well, this kind of expedition does take planning – and it's very much part of the adventure. The research and discussions are a lot of fun too! And the better we prepare, the more we can have a blast together, safely, on the actual tour.
With a full week in Arctic conditions, you’ll get to put everything you’ve learned into practice. We can count on running into some pretty severe weather at times. There will be moments when we need to adapt the plan and make decisions on the fly. Managing team morale and fluctuating energy levels is another biggie during a long, demanding trip.
When we did a similar expedition in Sarek, the toughest part came on night five – an extreme snowfall that buried the landscape. Breaking trail through waist-deep powder was exhausting and slow! We tried several constellations before landing on a solution: dividing the weight of one sled across everyone else’s so that one person could break trail without a sled. Our pace dropped from about 3 km an hour to barely 500 meters, so we pushed through a longer day – and still didn’t reach our planned camp spot.
We had one day set aside for either rest or a fun side activity, which turned out to be perfect. Some of the crew were completely spent and got the recovery they needed. Others went off on an epic peak trek. In the end, the tweaks to our original plan worked out splendidly and we had such a fantastic expedition together!
After this tour, our goal is that you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to go it alone without guides. Not alone alone, of course – never venture into rugged winter terrain without a buddy! But you know what we mean. It opens up a whole new season of endless adventures!
You’ll learn how to make a detailed expedition plan, assess risks, navigate through terrain with no man-made landmarks, evaluate energy levels and team morale, adapt your route to severe conditions, and much more. It’s essential to complete wilderness first aid training before heading out on your own – and please, stay away from avalanche-prone terrain.
Don’t feel ready to tackle this tour? Complete our Level 2, and you will be! We’ve designed our levels to incorporate a learning curve towards independence in a wintery wild.
All you need to know, and then some
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