Winter and Travel Safety Courses

Winter and Travel Safety Courses

On-demand winter safety and skills courses for professional adventurers and tourism workers, from navigation and avalanche awareness to polar preparation.

This section is for professional adventurers and tourism workers, for whom we run a range of winter safety training courses on demand alongside our standard tourism products: basic and advanced navigation, avalanche safety and awareness, mountain and glacier training, and bushcraft and survival courses.

  • Navigation, avalanche, mountain/glacier and survival courses
  • Accredited Travel Industry Safety Passport provider
  • Finnish first aid qualification with cold-injury add-ons
  • Customised polar expedition preparation

Winter safety and skill-development courses

For professionals in the industry, we are accredited to train and deliver the Travel Industry Safety Passport course, which leads to one of Finland's few safety standards in tourism. We offer a standard Finnish first aid qualification with optional add-on modules — for instance a theoretical journey into the world of cold and cold-related risks, or realistic Arctic role-playing scenarios developing cold-safety awareness and action. We are also developing an Arctic-specific wilderness first aid product with international specialists.

Polar expedition preparation

For those preparing for extreme polar adventures, we run customised expedition skill-development courses on one of the best preparation grounds in Europe. Forget Norway's alpine environment — Finland's high plateaus offer true Arctic conditions that far more closely mimic Antarctica.

Measuring slope angle during avalanche safety trainingAvalanche Safety Training CoursesOne-day and three-day avalanche- and snow-safety courses teaching risk assessment, route choice and rescue, run across Northern Finland and Norway.Glissading on a glacier during a mountain training courseMountain and Glacier TrainingGlacier courses and guided treks on the Lyngen Alps glaciers of northern Norway — from a 1-day trek to a comprehensive 5-day course.The arctic night sky and northern lights over LaplandThe Arctic SkiesA presentation on the northern lights and arctic skies, available to multiday husky clients and others on request.