MUSH THE ARCTIC - NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
We’ve all sipped cocktails at a poolside bar, walked along sandy beaches and laid a towel on a sun lounger. In fact, we dare say you've been doing the same thing for years. You've gazed upwards in old cathedrals and wandered around foreign museums, you've bought ice creams and paella and more often than not found yourself bored... with another three days to go.
Now is your chance to do something very different.
Now is your chance to do something very different.
In early March 2020, X Platoon invite you to embark upon an epic and extraordinary eight day journey deep into the Arctic Circle. Facing exciting conditions, this experience will provide you with the opportunity to push yourself and return home with an immense sense of self-satisfaction and pride.
Led by former members of the British and Swedish Elite Forces, you will be trained how to mush a dogsled team 25 miles through thick snow and tundra, then negotiate a further 40 miles of the world's most remote and breathtaking scenery on your snowmobile. We’ll show you how to cross country ski (totally different from your schnapps soaked slopes of Chamonix); you’ll learn ice breaking drills, how to walk in snowshoes, build survival shelters, how to create and maintain fire, ice fish, trap and then prepare both arctic game birds and reindeer meat (vegetarian options are also available).
We'll also be watching out for brown bears (there's around 3200 of them in Sweden), lynx, moose, wolverine and if we're very lucky, the grey wolf (it's haunting howl can be heard from over 10 Kms away). Hearing wolves howl is much more rewarding than seeing one, particularly when you're bedded down in a forest for the night.
Led by former members of the British and Swedish Elite Forces, you will be trained how to mush a dogsled team 25 miles through thick snow and tundra, then negotiate a further 40 miles of the world's most remote and breathtaking scenery on your snowmobile. We’ll show you how to cross country ski (totally different from your schnapps soaked slopes of Chamonix); you’ll learn ice breaking drills, how to walk in snowshoes, build survival shelters, how to create and maintain fire, ice fish, trap and then prepare both arctic game birds and reindeer meat (vegetarian options are also available).
We'll also be watching out for brown bears (there's around 3200 of them in Sweden), lynx, moose, wolverine and if we're very lucky, the grey wolf (it's haunting howl can be heard from over 10 Kms away). Hearing wolves howl is much more rewarding than seeing one, particularly when you're bedded down in a forest for the night.
Travelling along the 68° N line of latitude X Platoon’s Arctic adventure will take you 186 miles (300 kilometers) deep into the arctic. If you follow that line of latitude around your globe you will see that it runs through the most uninhabited wilderness in the world.
The remoteness of this region is otherworldly; you get a strange, yet uplifting feeling of being when you’re at the northernmost extremity of the globe, having reached somewhere very few people will ever go. For the scale, the emptiness, the invigorating cold, the staggering natural beauty; there is no place on earth quite like this.
Our unique base camp has been designed to allow for a little luxury to relax at the end of each day, you’ll enjoy a traditional woodland sauna and good food in the company of your fellow adventurers. It is also highly likely that you will also be rewarded with nature’s most spectacular light show – the Aurora Borealis.
Our unique base camp has been designed to allow for a little luxury to relax at the end of each day, you’ll enjoy a traditional woodland sauna and good food in the company of your fellow adventurers. It is also highly likely that you will also be rewarded with nature’s most spectacular light show – the Aurora Borealis.
We are limiting places available to a maximum of sixteen people to ensure that you get the best experience possible. All meals and accommodation will be provided on this trip along with specialist equipment such as snowshoes, snowmobiles and dog sleds. An extensive kit list and full joining instructions will be sent to you in time for you to make your travel arrangements and preparations for the trip. The destination airport is Kiruna Airport, the northernmost airport in Sweden. Connections are suggested through Stockholm.
All travel within Sweden to and from the airport at the beginning and end of the adventure is included.
All travel within Sweden to and from the airport at the beginning and end of the adventure is included.
Brown BearThere are around 3,200 bears in Sweden. A bear can eat a staggering 180,000 blueberries in one day yet can run as fast as 40mph.
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Grey WolfThe wolf mainly feeds on moose: one wolf family kills about 120 moose each year and its howl can be heard over ten kilometres away.
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WolverineThe wolverine is primarily a scavenger. When stressed or followed, the wolverine secretes a skunk like odour.
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OUR ARCTIC PARTNERS
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Cold Skills (Sweden) are former Swedish Special Forces operatives and are the very same people who train British Special Forces how to stay alive and operate successfully in extremely cold environments. They are without doubt the world's experts for survival in this extremely unforgiving climate. Thanks to Steve's career long association with this unit, Cold Skills will be working with us throughout this adventure to ensure that you leave with an experience you will never forget.
If you have ever wondered what real life Vikings were like... all your questions will be answered when you meet the Cold Skills team.
If you have ever wondered what real life Vikings were like... all your questions will be answered when you meet the Cold Skills team.
This could be the most exhilarating trip you'll ever experience.
Do something different... with X Platoon.
Do something different... with X Platoon.