Arktisk ekspedisjonsutstyr · Tromsø, Norge · siden 1911

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Outfitters of the polar night. We plan the route, issue the kit, and hand you over to the weather.

Scroll — the sky is live

Lat69.649°N

Lon018.956°E

Air, yard−11.4°C

Kp index4.7act

Vinterprotokollen · house rules of the dark season

Fifty days without a sunrise. We dress you for every one of them.

Tromsø sits at 69.6° north, four hundred kilometres above the Arctic Circle. From 27 November to 15 January the sun never clears the horizon. We have outfitted travel through that dark since 1911 — first for hunters and telegraph crews, now for people who want to cross a plateau behind their own dogs and sleep warm at minus twenty-four.

We are not a tour company. We are outfitters: the route is planned to the hour, the kit is weighed to the gram, and the rest is between you and the weather. Groups stay small. Phones stay in the pulk.

Sunless days each winter: 50
Alaskan huskies in the yard: 48
Guides · avg seasons: 9·14
Coldest issue rating: −45°C

Ekspedisjoner · winter 2026–27 · departures from Tromsø

Three routes into the dark

Every departure is guided, provisioned and fully kitted from our own stores. Prices are per traveller, from Tromsø, everything included except your courage and your camera.

Five nights on the west shore of Kvaløya, where the noon light holds a two-hour blue that photographs like held breath. Days are for sea stacks, drift ice and the patient geometry of the shoreline; nights are for the aurora watch from a heated shore hut at Ersfjordbotn. Tripods and −40° clothing issued. Patience assumed.

Route: Tromsø — Kattfjord — Ersfjordbotn
Party: Max 6 + guide-photographer
Issued: Parka, mukluks, carbon tripod, 1.2 L thermos
Under canvas: 0 nights — shore huts, wood stoves

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Two hundred and twelve kilometres from Camp Tamok over the Dividalen high plateau, each traveller driving their own team of five Alaskan huskies. You feed them before you feed yourself; by day three they will forgive your braking. Nights are spent in expedition tents at minus twenty and below — warm, because the kit is correct and the routine is kept.

Route: Camp Tamok — Rostadalen — Dividalen · 212 km
Party: Max 8 + 2 mushers
Issued: Full expedition suit, sleeping system, sled & team
Under canvas: 7 nights — two-person tents, spirit stoves

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Four days of paddling among drift ice in the Lyngen fjords, under alps that rise eighteen hundred metres straight from the tide line. Sea eagles by day; by night, the aurora over Strupen watched from the pier sauna, eighty metres from your bunk. Drysuits issued and mandatory. Cold water is honest — it tells you everything at once.

Route: Lyngseidet — Strupskardet — Sørlenangen
Party: Max 8 + 2 guides
Issued: Drysuit, double kayak, deck compass, dry bags
Under canvas: 0 nights — moored fjord cabin, pier sauna

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Nordlysvarsel · station 69.649°N · posted 14:00 daily

Tonight’s sky, read from the roof

The Kp index measures geomagnetic unrest from 0 to 9. Above 4, the aurora stands directly overhead in Tromsø. Above 6, cancel dinner. Our forecaster posts the dial by 14:00 — the sky is under no obligation to agree.

Kp now: 4.7 · active
Bz component: −6.2 nT, holding south
Solar wind: 512 km/s
Cloud, Kvaløya: 2 okta, thinning
Moon: Waning crescent, 12%
Observation window: 21:40 – 01:10 CET
Yard clock: –:– Tromsø

Tonight4.7

+1 night3.2

+2 nights5.1

Kp 4 — the overhead line

A fictional index from a real habit: someone climbs to the roof at 14:00, every day, all winter.

Utstyrsmanifest · winter issue · weighed to the gram

The manifest

Issued to every traveller at the yard, the evening before departure. Checked twice — once by us, once by the cold. Personal items are inspected: cotton next to skin fails.

Winter issue manifest: reference, item, specification, mass and source for each piece of expedition equipment. Each row carries a toggle to mark the item as packed.
	Ref	Item	Specification	Mass	Source
Layers
	NL-L01	Expedition parka	850-fill goose down · rated −40°C	1 480 g	Issued
	NL-L02	Wool base layer × 2	200 g/m² merino, full zip neck	380 g	Personal
	NL-L03	Windsuit	Ventile cotton · anorak + salopettes	1 120 g	Issued
	NL-L04	Mitten system	Wool liner / down mid / storm shell	310 g	Issued
	NL-L05	Mukluk boots	Felt liner · moose hide · rated −45°C	1 900 g	Issued
Traverse
	NL-T01	Pulk harness	Padded hip belt · 2 m rigid trace	640 g	Issued
	NL-T02	Snow goggles	Amber cat. 2 lens, low-light	140 g	Issued
	NL-T03	Headlamp + spare cells	600 lm · lithium, cold-rated	210 g	Personal
	NL-T04	Thermos 1.2 L	Steel · holds 70°C through −30°C night	780 g	Issued
Camp
	NL-C01	Sleeping bag	Down · comfort −32°C, expedition cut	2 150 g	Issued
	NL-C02	Sleeping mat, double	Closed-cell + air · R-value 7.1	890 g	Issued
	NL-C03	Storm matches + flint	Wax-sealed, tin of 40	60 g	Issued
Optics
	NL-O01	Binoculars 8×42	Nitrogen-purged · tethered caps	720 g	Issued
	NL-O02	Battery warmers × 12	Chemical pads, 8 h each	240 g	Personal
Issued mass per traveller				10 190 g

Your shoulders carry 10.2 kg. The pulk — or the dogs, or the hull — carries the rest.

NORDLYS

Mørketid — polar-night photography

Vidda — dog-sled plateau crossing

Isfjord — ice-fjord kayak