Northbound Expeditions · 78°N

SAIL NORTH

Seven days past the ice edge. No crowds, no noise — just the light, doing the talking.

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The idea

The ice does not hurry. Neither do we. Northbound sails small ships into big silence — twelve guests, one horizon, and a coastline that rewrites itself every mile.

01 · Depart

Leave the map
behind

We cast off from Reykjavík at dawn. Phones go in a drawer; the Denmark Strait does the rest. By nightfall the city is a rumor.

Day 1 — 64°N

02 · Cross

The ice edge
decides

No fixed route. The captain reads wind and floe like a manuscript and we follow — past blue bergs calving in slow thunder.

Days 2–5 — 72°N

03 · Arrive

Silence, at
78° north

Svalbard. Walrus on the floes, Arctic terns overhead, and a kind of quiet you can feel in your teeth. You won't want to leave.

Days 6–7 — 78°N

Depth, not decoration

Three layers of
somewhere else

Mountains drift at a fifth of your speed. Bergs at half. Floes almost keep up — and the compass hurries ahead, impatient as ever. Parallax is how a flat page learns distance.

Keep scrolling — the coast moves sideways
01

Fjord light

Cliffs that catch the sun twice — once in the sky, once in the water.

Reykjavík → Ísafjörður
02

Calving wall

A glacier face taller than a cathedral, rewriting itself in thunder.

Greenland Sea
03

Night that glows

The aurora doesn't perform on schedule. We wait — it always comes.

72°N, open water
04

Midnight sun

2 a.m. and golden. Sleep becomes optional; the deck becomes home.

Svalbard

By the numbers

The journey, measured

Scroll — the distance counts itself.

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Guests per ship

Small ship, big silence. We cap every sailing at twelve guests — the Arctic isn't a stadium.

2027 season · 6 sailings

The north is
already waiting.

Berths open March 1. Twelve guests per sailing, and the waiting list from last year is still warm.

Reserve a berthfrom €4,900 · all-inclusive