We design the journeys that don't fit in a brochure.
Private small-party expeditions to the cold, dramatic ends of the map. Eight guides. Twelve departures a year. We turn most enquiries down.
HQ Tromsø N 69° 38′ · Studio Punta Arenas S 53° 09′
01 — The Atelier
A guide who has actually been there in the dark.
We started in 2011 with one boat, one season, and a stubborn belief that the best places left on the map are the ones the industry decided were too cold, too far, or too quiet to sell.
Fifteen years on we still run twelve departures a year and not one more. Every route is drawn by hand, walked before you walk it, and built for six to eight people who'd rather be somewhere real than somewhere photographed. We turn most enquiries down — not to be difficult, but because the wrong trip helps nobody.
15
years, two hemispheres
08
guides, never more
12
departures a year
02 — The Route
One line down the page, drawn the way we drew it on the map.
Svalbard · The Blue Hour
N 78° 13′ / E 015° 38′
The sun comes back to Svalbard for nineteen minutes a day in late February. We are there for it — on the fast ice, in the blue hour that isn't an hour, when the whole archipelago turns the colour of a struck match held to slate.
Late February9 days6 guestsPolar twilight, 79°NThe Faroes · Vertical
N 62° 00′ / W 006° 47′
Eighteen islands, no straight roads, and a coastline that goes up instead of out. We walk the grass-topped cliffs at Trælanípan and sleep where the ferry stops running, in the weather the brochures crop out.
September7 days8 guestsSea cliffs, 754 mPatagonia · The Southern Icefield
S 50° 56′ / W 073° 24′
The third-largest body of ice on the planet and almost nobody on it. Twelve days roped to the southern icefield, reading the weather windows the way the old guides did, moving when it lets us and not before.
November12 days6 guestsCampo de Hielo SurThe Atacama · At Altitude
S 23° 51′ / W 067° 47′
The driest place on earth has the clearest sky on earth. We climb slowly onto the altiplano — salt flats, flamingo lagoons the colour of rust, and nights so dark the Milky Way throws a shadow.
April8 days8 guestsAltiplano, 4 200 m
MM-SVB
Svalbard
N 78° 13′ / E 015° 38′
The sun comes back to Svalbard for nineteen minutes a day in late February. We are there for it — on the fast ice, in the blue hour that isn't an hour, when the whole archipelago turns the colour of a struck match held to slate.
- Season
- Late February
- Length
- 9 days
- Party
- 6 guests
- Note
- Polar twilight, 79°N
03 — Field Note
“On the fourth night the lamp was the only warm thing for a hundred miles. Nobody spoke. The guide had been right about the weather, right about the ice, and right that we'd remember thisand nothing about the flight.”
R. Halvorsen · Svalbard MM-SVB · Feb 2026
04 — What's included
What's on the manifest, and what we leave off it.
A folded itinerary — open the parts you care about. The short version: two guides, six to eight guests, and a plan that bends to the weather instead of pretending it won't.
05 — Departures ledger
The next twelve months, as the harbourmaster keeps them.
Party sizes are real. When a column reads zero, the wait-list is the only way on.
| Code | Route | Departs | Lat. | Berths left | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM-SVB | Svalbard · The Blue Hour | 23 Feb 2027 | 78°N | 02 | Open |
| MM-FAR | The Faroes · Vertical | 11 Sep 2027 | 62°N | 04 | Open |
| MM-PAT | Patagonia · Southern Icefield | 04 Nov 2027 | 51°S | 00 | Wait-list |
| MM-ATA | Atacama · At Altitude | 16 Apr 2027 | 24°S | 03 | Open |
| MM-SVB | Svalbard · The Blue Hour | 21 Feb 2028 | 78°N | 06 | Open |
Scroll the ledger →
06 — Enquiry
Tell us where the map ends for you.
Send us a line about what you're after — a latitude, a season, a kind of quiet. A guide reads every one, and the first reply is a conversation, never a quote.