Narvik-based Gálav Ski Guides offers nature-based activities that will create life-long memories and insights into local nature and culture. Some of our featured products are:
Ski touring
Hut-to-hut ski touring along the Iron Ore Line
Ski touring around Narvik
Off-piste skiing
Arctic Ski Resorts off-piste
Courses
Basic avalanche course
Advanced avalanche course
Steep skiing course
Inspiration
We regularly guide media production teams that produce spectacular images and video. Here are some examples from productions we have supported in the field. Click on the images to be inspired!
The dark and the light
When iconic Powder Magazine visited Narvik we guided them to the backcountry skiing in Narvikfjellet as well as some of the best ski tours. This resulted in a 15-page article in the magazine as well as a short film.
Apogée – Andreas Fransson and JP Auclair memorial film
Half a year prior to their deaths, the world famous skiers Andreas Fransson and JP Auclair, together with filmer Bjarne Salén and photographer Daniel Rönnbäck, visited Narvik to film for their new project Apogée. While in Narvik we joined them on some of the classical big runs in Narvik as well as pioneering a new descent on Stetinden. The segment from Narvik starts halfway into the film.
Guidebooks
Gálav Ski Guides owner Mikael af Ekenstam has written several guidebooks for ski touring and climbing in Northern Scandinavia. Some are sold out, but you can get a copy of the ski touring guidebook for the Narvik area (in English or Norwegian) from the web shop at Fri Flyt.
About us
We’re a guide company based in Narvik in Northern Norway and with Northern Scandinavia as our extended backyard. Although the company is new we have a lot of experience and extensive local knowledge in-house.
Owner Mikael af Ekenstam is a former professional skier who has lived in Riksgränsen and Narvik since 1993. He has written several guidebooks for ski touring in Northern Scandinavia and pioneered numerous first descents.
Mikael is currently in the process of becoming a NORTIND certified ski guide. The ski courses in this certification program is equivalent to those that international IFMGA mountain guides have to take to become certified.
You may also meet these extraordinary individuals
Brita Staal
Founder and Impact Investor. Brita facilitates the Impact High Camps in Lofoten and Narvik.
Josef Nyström Baksaas
Mountain Guide and Partnership Director at Houdini Sportswear. Josef is a guide at Impact High Camp Lofoten
Carl Lundberg
Mountain Guide and
ECO-Travel pioneer. Carl is a guide at Impact High Camp Narvik.