Northbound
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Small-group journeys · 66°N to 78°N

Go north. Slowly.

Eight walking routes through Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Lapland. Six travellers, one local guide, and enough time to stand still and look up.

  • 8 routes · 6 to 9 nights
  • Six travellers maximum
  • 4.8 average from 779 reviews

Destinations

Eight routes, north of the crowd

Every trip runs with one guide and no more than six travellers. Walk 6–18 km a day, sleep in family-run guesthouses, and let the weather choose the order of things.

Region
Season

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Itineraries

How a Northbound trip comes together

No booking engines, no upsell calls. One conversation, one route drawn by hand, one guide who stays with you from the airport to the last breakfast.

A 20-minute call

Tell us when you can travel, how far you like to walk and what you want to see. Bring your questions — we answer them before you pay anything.

A route drawn for you

Within a week you get a day-by-day plan with two alternative days, a price in euro and the name of your guide. Change it twice if you need to.

One guide, all week

The same person meets you at the airport, walks with you, cooks on the last night and knows which bakery opens at six.

8routes a year
4regions
6travellers max
4.8from 779 reviews

Guides

The people you actually walk with

Every Northbound guide lives in the region they guide. They are not contractors flown in for the season, and they are not reading from a script.

Marta Eriksen

Norway · Lofoten & Lyngen

Twelve winters above the Arctic Circle. Former fisherman, now full-time guide — she knows which harbour café stays open in a storm.

Norwegian, English, some German

Jónas Þórsson

Iceland · south coast

Glacier guide and a farmer's son from Höfn. He knows every farm gate between Vík and Jökulsárlón, and when to skip the famous stop.

Icelandic, English, Danish

Rakul Clementsen

Faroe Islands · all 18

Grew up in Gásadalur and walks the old postal routes in all weather. Carries two flasks, a rope and an unreasonable number of biscuits.

Faroese, English, Danish

Journal

Notes from the north

Short dispatches from our guides — weather, paths, and the small decisions that make a week feel longer than it is.

Why we walk instead of drive on Senja

The coast road takes forty minutes. The old path above it takes four hours and passes three beaches, a wreck and a farm that sells eggs from a box.

Marta Eriksen · 6 min read

February light on the Lyngen fjord

At 69° north the sun returns in mid-January. By February it is in the sky for six hours and everything below it is pink and white.

Marta Eriksen · 4 min read

Packing for a Faroese shoulder week

Two pairs of gloves, one waterproof notebook, and no umbrella. Forty millimetres of rain can pass through in an afternoon, and usually does.

Rakul Clementsen · 5 min read

FAQ

Questions we get asked most

Still unsure about something? Write to us — a real guide answers, usually within two working days.