The North Pole Touch with dogs

Meeting with guide, collection of your expedition clothing kit, check-out your individual and group gear, general instruction, packing the expedition gear;

Information meeting, where our staff will brief you on the situation at the Barneo region, planned departure time and answer your questions;

19:00 Introductory dinner;

Training trip in the Longyearbyen surrounding.

Packing the expedition sledges.

Information meeting, where our staff will brief you on the situation at the Barneo region, planned departure time and answer your questions.

Luggage check-in.

Transfer to the airport, custom duties, boarding.

Flight from Longyearbyen to Barneo (approx. flight duration: 2 hrs 30 min).

Acquaintance with Barneo Ice Camp, located at 89 degree North.

Lunch in Barneo mess-tent.

Pitching the expedition camp at Barneo site.

Dinner.

MI-8 helicopter will take us to the start point, a camp, where mushers with dogs are waiting for us. Here we will spend the rest of the day training our skills in dogteam driving and make a short trip around the camp.

We move north. This tour contemplates not only dogsled driving, but also a lot of skiing, because each team consists of guide and other member of the expedition, who drive the sled by turns. Apart that, the path survey, helping the dogs with bridging the obstacles and things like these will be possibly required on the march. In the evening we stop to pitch our tents again for dining and resting before the last rush to the Pole.

On the arrival at the top of the globe we will celebrate it, and you can make a short phone call to your friends or relatives via satellite phone. We will spend a few hours nearby the Pole before helicopter takes us back to Barneo Ice Camp.

Dinner in the Barneo mess-tent.

Flight from Barneo to Longyearbyen on the AN-74 aircraft (approx. flight duration 2 h 30 min).

The North Pole Certificate ceremony. Time and place are to be discussed with expedition participants and announced in advance.

Free time. You have a chance to take part in Svalbard entertainment programmes (for additional costs, advance booking required). Transfer to the airport for your flight home.

Price includes:

Price does not include:

•  Meeting at the Longyearbyen airport ( Spitsbergen , Norway );

•  2 transfers airport-hotel-airport;

•  Introductory dinner in Longyearbyen;

•  Aircraft flights Longyearbyen - Barneo - Longyearbyen;

•  Helicopter flights according to the programme;

•  Using Barneo facilities;

•  Full catering at Barneo Ice Camp and on the trek;

•  Disposable plates, spoons, forks and cups at Barneo (2 sets per visiting a mess-tent per person);

•  Personal polar expedition clothes kit (please, see Equipment check-list);

•  Rent of the safety equipment (communication, navigation aid, weapon);

•  Rent of the skis with binding and ski poles;

•  Rent of the cargo sledge and tent;

•  Rent of the other group gear;

•  Stove fuel;

•  1 satellite phone call from the North Pole (2 min maximum, if battery capacity is sufficient);

•  Certificate of the North Pole visit;

•  Festive ceremony at Longyearbyen;

•  VICAAR guides service;

•  Accommodation in the heated tents at Barneo and full catering at Barneo Camp before departure to Longyearbyen (in case the group completed expedition before the time);

•  Travel costs from your place of residence to Longyearbyen ( Spitsbergen , Norway ) and back;

•  Accommodation in Longyearbyen;

•  Catering in Longyearbyen;

•  Transfers in Longyearbyen (excl. airport-hotel-airport for travel home and hotel-airport-hotel for travel to the North Pole);

•  Activities in Longyearbyen (dog-sledge rides, tours to the glacier, excursion to the coal mine, depending on the weather);

•  Alcohol drinks ;

•  Full medical-evacuation insurance with minimum coverage for evacuation - 100,000 Euro, required;

•  Insurance against full or partial cancellation of the expedition, luggage insurance, life insurance (strongly recommended);

•  Private belongings;

•  All the unforeseen costs related to the flights delays;

•  Souvenirs and postal expenses;

List of equipment for the expedition The North Pole Touch with dogs
( Code NPTD)

You should bring your own:

•  Windstopper gloves: 1 pair

•  Plastic mug with press-on cap : 1

•  Strong plastic spoon :1

•  Plastic bowl of 2-3 cups capacity :1

•  1 L stainless steel thermos: 1

•  Knife :1

•  Karabiners : 2 standard

•  Sunglasses or goggles 100% UV & IR:1 pair

•  Sun cream: SPF 40 large tube

•  Hygienic lipstick: SPF 40, at least 2 pieces

•  Personal medical kit: medicine, you normally take, along with aspirin, plaster, bandage, etc.

•  Personal hygienic kit incl. toilet paper, toothbrush, etc.

•  Wide-mouthed plastic bottle for using as an urinal in the night: 1

•  Shoes or Gore-Tex socks for using inside the tent

•  Large bag or rucksack for your gear: 1 or 2

•  Casual look garment for civilized places

Received from us and becomes your property:

•  Thin underwear made of Polycolon: 2 sets

•  Polartec 200 jacket and trousers:1 set

•  Storm shell jacket and pants: 1 set

•  Warm coat and trousers with Thinsulate insulation: 1 set

•  Woolen hat with Windstopper membrane: 1

•  Windstopper pile hat :1

•  Balaclava : 1

•  Thick expedition socks: 2 pairs

•  Expedition footwear: 1 pair

•  Expedition mittens: 2 pair

•  Individual sleeping bag liner: 1

•  35 L backpack: 1

•  6 mm rope: 10 m

Free rented from VICAAR:

•  Expedition tent: 1 for two persons

•  Ski with binding :1 pair

•  Ski poles : 1 pair

•  Cargo sledge :1

•  Expedition class (-30 C°) sleeping bag

•  Sleeping mats 40 mm

•  Cooking stove with fuel, cooking utensils

Other useful things you might bring:

•  Chemical hand- and foot-warmer bags

•  Neoprene face mask

•  Compression stuff bags

•  Photo and video equipment