Field-tested expeditions since 2009
Go where the map stops being useful.
Wayfare runs seven routes out of a yard in Tromsø, fourteen departures a year — glacier crossings, pathless traverses and cold-water coastlines, at six to a rope and never more. We will tell you what you are not ready for.
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The yard log
The outfit
We are not a travel company that goes to cold places. We are eleven people who go, and take six of you.
Seven guides, a desk, a workshop and a store room of kit we lend out and do not charge for. Everybody who answers your email has been on the route you are asking about. Nobody here earns a commission, a summit bonus, or a percentage of anything.
How we prepare a partyEleven days on the Nuussuaq plateau with no feature to navigate by. Every landscape on this site is CSS and inline SVG — the theme ships no image files at all.
- 14Departures a year
- 6On a rope, at most
- 7Guides, all IFMGA
- 2009First season
How a departure happens
Three steps, and one of them is on the floor
- 01
Tell us what you have actually done
The enquiry form asks for specifics, not enthusiasm — which routes, which season, how much weight, how long ago. It takes ten minutes and it is the only part of this that we cannot do for you.
- 02
We put you on the right route, or a different one
About a third of enquiries get sent somewhere other than the route they asked about, and a handful get sent to another outfit entirely. A guide replies, not a sales desk, within three working days.
- 03
The yard, then the ground
Everything you own goes on the floor at Sjøgata before you leave. We pull what is wrong, lend you what is missing, and then you walk out of the door and the trip starts.
What we will not do
Four rules we have never bent, including for money
- 01
No helicopter past a start line
We will fly you to Saqqaq, because there is no road. We will not fly you to base camp at Ak-Shyirak, because those four days are the acclimatisation and removing them makes a worse expedition that costs more.
- 02
No summit bonus, ever
No guide here earns a krone more for standing on top of something. It is the single cheapest safety measure in this industry and a surprising number of outfits have not taken it.
- 03
No beginners above Grade II
Every route from Grade III up has a written prerequisite and we check it against what you have actually done. One enquiry in nine gets sent to the Ullstinden week first, and they are not pleased about it.
- 04
No turnaround set on the hill
The turnaround time is a number, read off a watch, fixed at the previous night's briefing. It is not revisited at altitude by anybody, including the guide who set it.
We did not get the summit. I have thought about those nine days more than about any holiday I have ever taken, and I have taken some expensive ones.
Hanne BrekkeLyngen Traverse, April 2025 · returning 2027
From the journal
Field notes and trip reports
- Field note
Eleven days of weather, in numbers
The July Hornsund departure, logged hour by hour: wind, water temperature, paddling kilometres, and the three days we did not get in the boats at all.
- Trip report
We turned back at 1,180 metres
The April Lyngen party was ninety vertical metres from the summit at two minutes to one. The turnaround rule is a clock, not a conversation, and this is what it cost and what it bought.
- House rule
The kit list is not a suggestion
We put everyone's kit on the yard floor before every departure and go through it item by item. Here is what gets pulled, what gets lent, and the two things that have sent people home.
Ready when you are
Tell us what you have done. We will tell you where it gets you.
A guide reads every enquiry — three working days, and about a third of them come back recommending a different route from the one that was asked about.