Nordur

21/09/2026

Not every challenge on a Nordur expedition is the one you planned for… 😂

Sometimes it’s the weather. Sometimes it’s the water. Sometimes it’s finding yourself knee-deep in a bog with a paddle in your hand.

Whatever happens, you’ve always got your guides and your teammates there to support you through the difficult times. 😂

19/09/2026

Team Ireland hunkering down and waiting out Storm Dave on the morning of day two of their Hardangervidda crossing 🇮🇪🌬️

This is why we include a UK training weekend before the expedition.

Get to know your team. Practise putting up the tents. Learn the stoves. Sort your kit out. Ask questions.

When the weather turns, those familiar routines matter. Everything takes more effort in strong winds and cold hands, and you need to be able to work together.

We all hope for blue skies and good snow, but we prepare for this too.

15/09/2026

Hardangervidda or Sarek — which one?

Both are Level 3 winter expeditions. Both involve travelling on skis, hauling pulks, winter camping and operating as part of an expedition team.

But that’s roughly where the similarities end.

Hardangervidda 🇳🇴 is the classic crossing. A huge, exposed high-mountain plateau where the terrain continually rolls beneath you — climb, descend, repeat. It’s also a landscape steeped in polar history, including Roald Amundsen’s infamous attempted winter crossing in 1896.

Sarek 🇸🇪 takes you much further north, inside the Arctic Circle. Instead of crossing an open plateau, we travel through enormous mountain valleys beneath some of Sweden’s highest peaks. It’s colder, more remote and considerably less well known.

We often describe Sarek as our mini-Svalbard expedition — a serious Arctic journey and a natural stepping stone towards bigger polar objectives.

Same level. Different wild.

Hardangervidda — £2,995
Sarek — £3,500

So which would you choose: the classic crossing or the Arctic crossing?

12/09/2026

One of my favourite things about being away on expedition is how simple the mornings feel.

You climb out of your tent, rested, with smoke drifting from the fire and the first sunlight coming across the river. No phone signal. No messages to catch up on. None of the usual demands pulling you in five different directions.

Just breakfast, a brew, pack up camp and get on the water.

There’s still plenty to do, but you can give each task your full attention. Look after yourself, look after each other, and make your way downriver. You’ve got time to notice the light, enjoy your coffee and have a chat.

This morning in Canada captured that feeling perfectly. A simple day ahead, and nowhere else you need to be.

11/09/2026

Packrafting opens up a completely different way of travelling through wild places.

Our Packraft Expedition Fundamentals course is built for people who want to go beyond simply learning how to paddle a packraft and start understanding how to use one as a genuine expedition tool.

Over three days and two nights, we travel as a self-supported team, carrying everything we need and learning the skills along the way — paddling loaded boats, moving water, rescues and throwline work, route choice, campcraft, repairs, emergency procedures and expedition decision-making.

It’s a practical course taught through a real journey, rather than spending three days practising skills from the same stretch of water.

No previous packrafting experience is needed, and you’ll also get the chance to use and compare different boats and equipment.

Current dates:

18–20 September — Scottish Highlands — Fully Booked
6–8 November — Scottish Highlands
20–22 November — Lake District

Full details and booking at www.nordur.co.uk

07/09/2026

One of the coolest parts of what we do is bringing together groups of amazing people and watching them become a team in a remarkably short space of time.

And that process starts long before we get on the plane.

For every expedition, we bring the team together for a UK training weekend, as well as setting up a WhatsApp community in the build-up. It gives everyone the chance to meet, train together, ask questions, share ideas and start getting to know the people they’ll be travelling with.

By the time we reach the expedition itself, we’re not starting from scratch.

Then come the days of travelling, camping, cooking, making decisions, solving problems and sharing all the highs and lows of an expedition together. It’s amazing how quickly a group bonds when you share experiences like that.

Our recent descent of the Yukon River was a pretty good example. A group brought together for an expedition who finished it as a proper team — and, with friendships that will last a lifetime!

04/09/2026

The wildest part of Europe?

Around 100 km north of the Arctic Circle lies Sarek National Park — nearly 2,000 km² of mountains, glaciers and deep valleys in Swedish Lapland.

There are no roads into the national park, no settlements inside it and, unlike many Scandinavian mountain areas, no convenient network of staffed huts. After Day 1, we leave the marked trail network behind and head into the heart of Sarek.

Sarek contains six of Sweden’s thirteen 2,000 m summits, including 2,089 m Sarektjåkkå, Sweden’s second-highest mountain, with around 100 glaciers amongst them.

In winter, the landscape is transformed. Lakes and rivers freeze, the valleys fill with snow and become our highways through the mountains.

For the next week, we’ll travel through that landscape on Nordic skis, hauling everything we need to remain self-sufficient behind us in pulks.

Cold, remote and genuinely wild.

Sarek Winter Crossing | 26 March–4 April 2027

31/08/2026

31/08/2026

Sarek National Park

We’ve still got a few spaces on Sarek next March.

Around 130km on skis through one of Europe’s wildest national parks, pulling everything we need behind us and camping along the way.

There are no marked trails through Sarek and very little infrastructure. Just big valleys, frozen rivers, glaciated mountains and a lot of empty space, one of the wildest places in northern Europe.

It’s a proper winter journey and a great next step for anyone wanting to build experience towards longer polar expeditions.

26 March – 4 April 2027
Approx. 130km
10 days, self-supported

A few places still available. Drop us a message if you fancy joining us.

Remote. Bold. Cold.