Together with Klättermusen Experiences, I travel to Finnmark to take part in a ski touring experience built around the Arctic landscape, northern lights and life outdoors. But this project quickly becomes about something bigger. About accessibility. About asking a simple question: Why shouldn’t adventure travel be accessible to more people?

The Project

For me, this trip means skiing off-piste for the very first time. In deep powder. In Arctic conditions. And unlike a normal ski trip, ski touring starts with climbing the mountain yourself. No lifts. No easy way up. To make the experience possible, Fred Buttard, experience designer at Klättermusen Experiences, collaborates with students from the Outdoor University in Alta. Together, they create a rope system to pull me uphill and safely guide me back down.

What follows becomes much more than a practical solution. It becomes a shared experience. Everyone contributes. Everyone adapts. Everyone learns. And that’s where the real impact of inclusivity becomes visible.

More than accessibility

This project shows that inclusive adventure travel is not about lowering the level of the experience. If anything, it adds something deeper. The trip becomes more collaborative, more creative and more human. The students discover new ways of approaching outdoor travel. Fellow travellers start seeing possibility instead of limitation. And the experience itself becomes richer because of it. Not despite the adaptations. But because people work together to make it possible.

Why this matters

Adventure travel is still often seen as something exclusive. As if expeditions, outdoor experiences and remote travel are only meant for people without physical limitations. But why should that be the standard? This project is about showing that accessibility and adventure can exist together naturally. That inclusive travel should not feel exceptional. It should simply be normal. Because in the end, inclusive experiences do not only change the journey for the person participating. They enrich the experience for everyone involved.

Project Details

Location Langfjordbotn, Finnmark, Norway
Partner Klättermusen Experiences
Collaboration Outdoor University Alta

Somewhere above the fjords, while the northern lights slowly appear over the mountains, the idea suddenly feels incredibly simple. Adventure should not be exclusive. And maybe the best experiences happen when people come together to make something possible that once seemed impossible.