Tröllaskagi Ski and Sail, North Iceland

Tröllaskagi (Troll Peninsula), North Iceland · Iceland

Challenging6 daysEurope~£3,300 est.

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Overview

The Troll Peninsula is the closest thing Europe has to Alaska with a harbour: 1,200m corn-snow faces falling straight into grey Arctic fjords, and a sailboat as your mobile base camp. You wake at anchor, skin from the tide line, and by afternoon you are linking turns back to the beach while your skipper motors round to collect you — sometimes with humpbacks surfacing between you and the boat. April and May are the season: endless northern daylight, a settling snowpack and summit-to-sea descents off peaks such as Kaldbakur across Eyjafjörður. The weather is the variable that owns the trip — the skipper reads the forecast each evening and chooses tomorrow's leeward fjord, so surrender the itinerary and you will ski every day the mountains allow. Boats sail from Dalvík or from Siglufjörður, the herring town crammed into the peninsula's northern tip; both are about an hour from Akureyri's airport, itself a 45-minute hop from Reykjavík. Six-day berths with guide, skipper and full board run about £3,300 — book a full year out, as each boat takes only six to eight skiers.