About Arctic Winter Survival Courses

Learn to deal with the harshest enviroment in Europe.

The Arctic Circle in northern Sweden’s Lapland is an incredible location.  The vast expanses of virgin snow, ice covered lakes and winter wildlife can be overwhelming to the uninitiated. This environment provides some of the harshest winter weather in the world and survival training here is real and highly rewarding. Survival in the Arctic is a real challenge.

Northern Sweden offers you the chance to train to function in relative comfort in its hostile environment.  This takes inner strength, knowledge, the right skill set and the right equipment. If you can provide the mental attitude and some of the equipment, we will help you develop the knowledge and skills which you will need.

Our courses are based on tried and tested methodologies which have been refined over many years by real, practical experiences and applications. Learning and using these skills in real life, supervised situations and understanding the basic concepts and principles, will make sure you are equipped for life, should you ever find yourself forced to survive in an Arctic environment.

The training takes place in Northern Sweden, Lapland, just on the Arctic Circle and offers an overwhelming experience of nature together with the exhilaration and dangers that such a harsh winter climate can produce. All the nature you can imagine can be found in the region, dense forests, wide stretched swamps, clear white topped mountains with deep valleys, pure clean lakes and beautiful, amazing scenery. There are wild roaming game animals including elk, reindeer, wolverines, lynx, bears, wolves and hundreds of varieties of birds including eagles and migrating mute swans.

The winters are crisp and dry and run from December through to March.  The snowfall in Lapland can start in the autumn and mid-winter temperatures can periodically drop to -35C and average out at around –15C. Mid winter is dark with only a few hours of daylight each day but the white snow reflects the available daylight very effectively.

From February onwards the days are full of light again and the sun becomes incredibly powerful against the bright, reflective snow. The snow cover is deepest in the middle of March just before spring time, when the snow thickness varies from 60-90cm and the region has more daylight than central Europe.