0106 – 14 Feb 2027
Zanskar Winter Trek
The frozen Zanskar river is the only road in. We walk it at −25 °C to a monastery that sees no one until spring.
€4,600Brief
2027 season — six routes
Six routes.
One season.
SEATS 72 · HELD 31 · OPEN 41
RATIO 1 : 3 · GUIDES IFMGA
RATIO 1 : 3 · GUIDES IFMGA
Every route runs once. Every date was fixed a year out. If a window closes, we turn around — that's the only rule we won't negotiate.
Routes
Pick your
cold.
Grades run from III (fit walker, no technical ground) to V (full polar expedition skills). Regions are where the mountains are, not where the flights go.
Region
Grade
Showing 06 / 06
0203 – 13 Mar 2027
Atacama High Desert
Salt, sulphur and star fields. We acclimatise across the altiplano and finish on the summit of Licancabur.
€5,800Brief
0304 – 13 Apr 2027
Svalbard Ski Traverse
Fjord to fjord across Spitsbergen on skis, pulks behind, rifle in the tent. Polar light all day.
€6,200Brief
0420 Apr – 16 May 2027
Greenland Icecap Crossing
The full west-to-east traverse of the inland ice. Sledges, skis, kites when the wind allows. Twenty-six days of white.
€14,800Brief
0502 – 18 Oct 2027
Manaslu Circuit
A kora around the eighth-highest mountain on earth, over the Larkya La. Tea houses, then tents, then thin air.
€7,400Day by day
0608 – 19 Nov 2027
Patagonia Ice Field
Onto the Hielo Continental via Paso Marconi. Wind is the objective hazard. Fitz Roy is the view.
€8,900Brief
On every route
What the price
actually includes.
Open a pill. If something you expected isn't here, it's because we don't charge for it separately — or because we don't do it.
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Route 05 · day by day
Manaslu Circuit,
seventeen days.
A full circumambulation of Manaslu (8,163 m) over the Larkya La. The itinerary below is the one we actually run — buffer days included, not promised.
01
Kathmandu to Machha Khola
Nine hours of jeep, dust and river noise. The Budhi Gandaki is brown and loud. We sleep well.
02
Jagat, Deng, Namrung
The gorge tightens. Suspension bridges, waterfalls, the first mani walls. By Namrung the air is cooler and the trail turns Tibetan.
03
Lho to Samagaun
Manaslu appears above Lho — all of it, at once. Samagaun is our basecamp village: a gompa, a lake, and the last tea house with a stove.
04
Acclimatisation: Pungyen Gompa
Up to the hidden monastery under the east face and back down to sleep low. Nobody feels great. That's the point.
05
Samdo to Dharamsala
Tents from here. Dharamsala is a wind-scoured shelf and the last camp before the pass. Early dinner, kit laid out, alarms at 03:00.
06
The Larkya La
Four hours of frozen moraine in the dark, then the long ramp to the prayer flags. We don't stop long. The descent to Bimthang is the day's real work.
07
Bimthang to Dharapani
Down through rhododendron and bamboo into the Annapurna side. Hot showers reappear. So do appetites.
08
Besisahar, Kathmandu, buffer
Two buffer days built in for weather on the pass. If we don't need them, Kathmandu has very good momos and very bad traffic.
The rope team
Fourteen guides.
Four leads.
Every KORA lead has guided the route they lead at least three times. Average experience: nineteen seasons. Average sense of humour at 05:00: adequate.
Ingrid Søvik
Polar lead · Svalbard, Greenland
Tromsø. Eleven icecap crossings. Keeps a logbook of every kite day since 2009.
Pasang Dorje Lama
Himalaya lead · Manaslu
Samagaun. Grew up under the mountain. Has crossed the Larkya La forty-one times, always with the same thermos.
Tomás Arrieta
Andes & Patagonia lead
El Chaltén. Reads Marconi wind like weather radar. Author of our turnaround rule and most of our jokes.
Tsering Angmo
Zanskar lead
Leh. Walked the Chadar to school as a child. Now walks it with you, slower, with better tea.
