The World's Most Northerly Ski Camp
A company part run by a former ski instructor that specialises in building ‘world first’ experiences that push the boundaries of travel is offering what it believes is the world’s most northerly ski camp this winter.
Cookson Adventures has set up the camp from a base on Baffin Island in northern Canada, 70 degrees north within the Arctic Circle. The company’s clients can explore the Arctic Cordillera mountain range via snow-cat or helicopter, skiing some slopes that have never been skied before and getting the opportunity to then name the lines skied themselves.
Cookson’s heli-ski base is located among the remote fjords near the small Inuit community of Clyde River, further north than the world’s most northerly ski resort (Riksgränsen in Sweden), amongst undiscovered skiable wildernesses in the Arctic Cordillera mountain range.
“The Baffin Island adventure is ideal for skiers looking for a ‘world first’ experience: uncharted slopes, unnamed ski lines, immersion into local culture and a real chance to test one’s physical limits,” said Adam Sebba, CEO of Cookson Adventures.
As well as challenging themselves with some of the world’s longest couloirs and highest vertical cliff faces, clients will be able to experience the rich culture of the native Inuit people in their downtime.
Working In partnership with Weber Arctic, a family-led polar exploration company, Cookson Adventures will host clients in a private collection of Pacific dome tents, including dining, bathroom and club-house tents. Whether clients opt for the cat or take to the skies in either a four-person or eight-person helicopter, brought to the site by ferry from Iqaluit, Baffin Island has so many unexplored areas that, after being the first person to ski a slope, skiers will be able to name the line themselves.
Founded in 2009, Cookson Adventures has pioneered the concept of world firsts in luxury adventure travel. Recent trips have included organising the first manned submersible dive in Antarctica and carrying out crucial conservation work in the Galápagos Islands. Henry Cookson, the company’s founder, is a dedicated adventurer and a Guinness World Record holder for the first expedition to the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility (the exact centre of the Antarctic Continent).
