About Northwilds
We take small groups to big places
Northwilds started with one guide, one minibus and a ridge in Lofoten. Today we run 32 trips in nine countries, still in small groups.
Our story
Slow, small and properly local
We believe the best trips are led by people who live where you are going. Our guides grew up in the mountains and on the coasts they show you, and they choose the huts, kitchens and campsites they would choose for their own friends.
We keep groups small because it is kinder to the places we visit and better for the people who come. We plan routes that take trains where we can, and we put a share of every booking into the trails we walk.
Go slowly, go together, and leave every place a little better than you found it.
- Our first trip
- 2014
- Travellers so far
- 31,000
- Local guides
- 42
- Of every booking to trail work
- 1%
Our guides
The people who make it
Qualified, local and very good company.
Ingrid SolbergLead guide, Lofoten and western NorwayIngrid grew up on a fishing island north of the Arctic Circle and has walked every ridge in Lofoten at least twice. In winter she swaps boots for skis on the Hardangervidda plateau. She knows where the cloudberries grow and never shares it.Norwegian, English, GermanMeet Ingrid
Marco DellantonioLead guide, Dolomites and Swiss AlpsMarco is a qualified mountain guide from Val di Fassa who has spent twenty summers between the huts of the Dolomites. He plans every route around the best coffee stop and the best view, usually in that order.Italian, Ladin, English, GermanMeet Marco
Ailsa MacLeodLead guide, Scottish HighlandsAilsa teaches wild camping and navigation across the Highlands and has a story for every glen. She trained as a mountain leader after ten years as a geography teacher, and it shows: nobody leaves her trips without knowing how a corrie was made.English, Scottish GaelicMeet Ailsa
Tashi SherpaLead guide, Everest and AnnapurnaTashi grew up in Khumjung, below Ama Dablam, and started guiding at nineteen after summers as a porter. He has led more than sixty treks in the Khumbu and Annapurna and knows every tea house owner by name. He is strict about acclimatisation and generous with butter tea.Nepali, Sherpa, English, HindiMeet Tashi
Liisa KorhonenLead guide, Finnish Lakeland and LaplandLiisa splits her year between canoe routes in the Lakeland and snowshoe trails in Lapland. She is a wilderness first-aid instructor and believes no day outdoors is complete without a sauna and a cold lake.Finnish, Swedish, EnglishMeet Liisa
Jonas LindqvistLead guide, Swedish archipelago and lakesJonas has paddled the Stockholm archipelago since he could hold a paddle. He leads our Swedish paddling and family trips, and his campfire cinnamon buns are the reason many guests come back.Swedish, English, NorwegianMeet Jonas
Sofia NovakLead guide, Julian AlpsSofia was born in the Soča valley and guides hiking, gravel and family trips across the Julian Alps. She studied forestry, so walks with Sofia come with the names of every tree, flower and mushroom along the way.Slovenian, Italian, EnglishMeet Sofia
Finn GunnarssonLead guide, Iceland and the Isle of SkyeHalf Icelandic and half Scottish, Finn leads our trips in both of his home countries. He has crossed the Icelandic highlands by bike, on foot and on horseback, and still stops for every waterfall.Icelandic, English, DanishMeet FinnOn the trail
A year at Northwilds
