Like all Albatros Adventure Marathons™️, the Icefjord Midnight Marathon is designed to be more than just a race. It's also about enjoying time together with family, friends and other running-minded spirits. Spectators welcome!
The Icefjord Midnight Marathon is more than just a marathon - it's a journey through Greenland! Greenland offers an unbelievable number of attractions. Among others, you can take a kayak through the Icefjord, go on an 'air safari', or add an extension to camp on the ice cap itself!
We will meet at Copenhagen airport where a 4.5 hour flight will bring us to Kangerlussuaq.
We arrive in Kangerlussuaq in the early evening and check in to Polar Lodge, our accommodation for the night.
Dinner this night will be in a local restaurant in Kangerlussuaq.
Meals: Flight meal and dinner
After breakfast in Polar Lodge our expedition guide will give you an important briefing on safety and the coming activities. It is advised to bring a backpack for the things you will need while on the Ice Camp. The rest of your luggage will be kept in the storage room at Polar Lodge, waiting for your return Wednesday afternoon.
We will then depart for the Ice Camp. With all-terrain vehicles, we will drive about an hour toward our destination: Point 660 on the edge of the ice cap. Here, we will gear up and start our expedition on the Ice.
Following our experienced guide, we will then venture onto the Greenland Ice Sheet, following in the footsteps of legendary explorers. We will hike a few kilometers to our destination, where our first priority is setting up camp. After our accommodations are in order, depending on the weather, we will either enjoy our packed lunch at base camp or whilst hiking.
Please note: As a participant on this trip, we expect you are willing to pull a sled with your own/group equipment from the ice edge to the camp. This effort is considered by the majority of participants to be a fairly easy and natural task to perform, but be aware it is expected.
We will proceed with care over seemingly eternal fields of ice, following our guide and always being careful of any potential ice fissures. Throughout the duration of this expedition, we will maintain a safe distance from danger and plot a route across secure terrain. Crampons and trekking poles will provide each guest with extra stability. Ropes will not be used.
Dinner will be wholesome, simple, and warm, consisting of freeze-dried food that is easy to carry on such an expedition. In an environment where no other food sources are availabe, this humble meal will feel like even more of a gift.
In the evening it is time to relax with a warm beverage and enjoy the total silence that the ice sheet imposes.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and expedition-dinner
Following a night spent snuggled in our warm sleeping bags and an energy-packed breakfast, we will head out on another hike on the Ice Cap.
As our adventure concludes, we will break camp, pack up our goods and leave only our footprints behind.
We will then drive back to Kangerlussuaq. On the way we will stop and enjoy a BBQ lunch at the magnificent Russell Glacier before driving back to Kangerlussuaq and check into the Polar Lodge again.
Dinner will be at Roklubben.
Meals: Breakfast, BBQ-lunch, and dinner
Today we will make our way from Kangerlussuaq to Ilulissat, our final destination.
Meals: Breakfast.
Shared double room: 995 EUR
Single room supplement (at Polar Lodge): +100 EUR
NB. This is a shared camping expedition. If you are a solo traveler you will be paired in a tent with a person of your own gender.