Finnmark

A week of ski mountaineering in arctic Norway, based out of Alta and the country just east of Lyngen. Late April 2026, with local guides.

The trip began with a bluebird day. Then a storm system rolled in for three days and brought fifty-knot winds with fresh snow. The skiing waited. On the last day the sun broke through, the snow held, and the country was wind-scoured and bright at once.

The photographs that follow are from that arc. The opening day, the closed days when the camera could only point at storm light, and the morning when it all came back.