With the cat skiing season done and dusted for another year, yesterday was our staff day to get out an have a bit of fun… Pow turns, road gaps, ‘don’t spill ya beer runs’, and Nick reveals his true love – the snowboard! Plus an exciting pyrotechnic end to the day! Loving life.
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Yesterday was the perfect day on Youtei. Waking up at 4:45am required a fair bit of self motivation, then the 5hrs of hiking asked some questions of ‘why’!? … But it’s always worth it… A monster effort, 2 laps of the crater and then pow turns from top to bottom on Youtei, all without a […]
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Last winter we had the pleasure of hosting a team of professional female skiers from Europe and the US. They were here in Niseko shooting for their new all girls ski film, Shades of Winter. We hunted for the best pillows and pow we could find and had a blast for two weeks while the […]
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Seems like we may have skipped spring and gone straight into summer! Yesterday was the first really warm day since winter and we managed to get some good turns on the North Face of Annupuri… Returned home with sore legs, smiles and sunburn! Gotta love getting great turns at the end of May!
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The final episode of Expedition Greenland. Our eight gruelling weeks of filming and exploration have been edited down to just 4 minutes and features breathtaking scenery, Arctic wildlife and a juxtaposition of traditional and modern cultures. Truly the experience of a lifetime… And way way beyond the comfort zone!!
Read More ›Greenland had enthralled me to a point until recently. Now it’s blown my mind. Having been lucky enough in the last few weeks to enjoy several helicopter flights over some of our homebase mountains in Liverpool Land, the scale of Greenland’s wild mountain ranges was obvious; huge mountains cut by glaciers in a pattern that […]
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An insight into the lives of The Snow Dragons; Tangent Expeditions and Eastern Greenland’s Snowmobile guides. In our daily roles here in Greenland we often find ourselves on snowmobiles working as guides for Tangent Expeditions. Dubbed ‘The Snow Dragons’, this guiding team gives us the perfect excuse and opportunity to get out and explore Eastern […]
Read More ›A compilation of many sleepless nights spent looking at the beautiful skies in Greenland.
Read More ›Landing at Constable Point invoked an instant feeling of remoteness. The airport services a local village called Ittoqqortoormiit (about 5 hrs by snowmobile, or 12 minutes by helicopter). It has a population of around 469 and is one of the most remote towns in Greenland – I guess that makes it one of the most […]
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