Adventure
Further out, with a margin built in
Sailing, ski touring, multi-day traverses and cold water. Properly equipped, properly guided, and planned with contingency rather than optimism.
How we plan it
The objective is a hope, not a promise
On a ski-touring week the guides decide the objective at breakfast, every day, from the snowpack and the forecast. On the altiplano the geyser field happens on day seven or it does not happen. In Lofoten half the plan will move.
We would rather say that in advance than sell you a guarantee and then explain it away. Every journey on this page has a written alternative for the days most likely to change.
For the harder trips we have a fitness and experience conversation before we confirm, and we will turn a booking down rather than have someone have a bad week.
- Guiding
- IFMGA on snow, local specialists elsewhere
- Group size
- Eight at most, usually fewer
- Insurance
- Required, and we check the cover
- Contingency
- A written alternative per day
Journeys
Trips with something to earn
11 days · Small group
The Nakasendo on Foot
Three days in Kyoto, then the surviving stretch of the inland post road through cedar forest and wooden post towns, walked uphill.
Walking and trailsCulture and craft€5,200from, per person
9 days · Small group
Arctic Sail and Ski
A sailing yacht as the base camp, anchoring under lines that run from the ridge to the sea, with two mountain guides aboard.
AdventureWinter and northern light€6,400from, per person
9 days · Private
The Altiplano Traverse
Salt flats, altiplanic lagoons and the geyser field at dawn, sequenced by a geologist so that the altitude does not ruin it.
Desert and altitudeWalking and trails€5,400from, per person
Altitude, specifically
Sequence beats supplements
Our altiplano trips put two easy days below 2,500 metres before anything else, and a night sleeping at 3,500 before the high day. It costs two days. In return you are still enjoying yourself at four thousand metres on day seven, which is the entire reason to go.
Read: acclimatise, or waste the good daysDays
What a hard day looks like
Walking
The Kiso post road on foot
Tsumago to Magome and beyond, uphill, on stone-paved sections of the old highway.
Three days
Adventure
Out with the cod boat
A working boat out of Ballstad in the season, and someone cooks what you bring back.
Five hours, from first light
Walking
The altiplanic lagoons
Miscanti and Minques with the wind off them, and a very slow walk along the shore.
A full day, above 4,000 metres