Instinct & Ice: An Empowering Women’s Expedition to Svalbard

Day 1, 18 June - Arrive Longyearbyen

Touch down in the world’s northernmost town, where mountains meet sea ice and the midnight sun hovers low on the horizon. You’ll be met at the airport and transferred to the Svalbard Hotell Polfareren to settle in. This evening, gather for a welcome dinner—your first taste of Arctic cuisine and the moment you meet your fellow adventurers, your Expedition Leader Megan Hine, and the small crew who will guide you through the days ahead. It’s the start of a journey designed for bold, curious women—where wild landscapes, shared stories, and untamed instincts will shape the adventure.

Accommodation: Svalbard Hotell Polfareren (D)

Day 2, 19 June - Longyearbyen – Embark R/V Kinfish

Spend the morning at leisure, wandering this rugged frontier town before meeting your group and Megan for a visit to the cultural and natural history museum of Svalbard. Here, the Arctic begins to speak to us—through tales of polar exploration, survival, and the deep connection between people and place. After you will be transferred to collect your muck boots and then head onward to step aboard the intimate R/V Kinfish, meet the crew, and settle into your cabin. Tonight, the engines hum as we set a course into the wilds of the Arctic.

Accommodation: R/V Kinfish

Days 3 – 10, 20 Jun – 27 Jun Exploring the Arctic – Women’s Arctic Immersion

For eight days, the Svalbard Archipelago will become our stage, our teacher, and our mirror. Here, the weather, the ice, and the wild itself will guide our path, reminding us that true adventure unfolds in rhythm with the land, not the clock.

We will breathe in the stillness of the Arctic morning, learning to steady ourselves as explorers always have, through breath, presence, and awareness. We will walk across wind-carved ridges and shifting sea ice, each step a lesson in trust and adaptation. Together, in our Sea Ice Sessions, we will explore the thresholds we each carry; risk and courage, fear and instinct, identity and transformation.

We will also take a look at the world we come from, where stress, speed, and constant noise overwhelm our nervous systems. In the silence of the Arctic, free from distraction, we can trace these pressures back to their roots, understanding how our minds and bodies evolved to survive threat and uncertainty, and why modern life often pushes those same systems into overload. Here, we will begin to recalibrate.

The elements will test us and teach us. Cold immersions, endless light, and landscapes stripped bare of comfort will awaken resilience and sharpen instinct. In this stripped-back world, we will find space to listen; to the land, to each other, and to the voices within ourselves.

Under the midnight sun, where the day never ends, a different energy rises. You will feel clarity and strength that only this place can give. We will journey into fjords heavy with ice, set foot on remote islands where few have walked, and drift past peaks carved by centuries of wind and snow. Along the way we will keep watch for the great creatures of the North - polar bears, walruses, whales, foxes, and reindeer, encounters that remind us of both our fragility and our belonging.

This is not a journey to collect images. It is a journey to witness the wild, both around us and within us, and return changed.

Overnight: R/V Kinfish

Day 11, 28 Jun - Disembark Kinfish – Depart Svalbard

We’ll likely sail into harbour the night before, giving space for a final, unhurried morning together. Over breakfast, we’ll reflect on the journey—the landscapes we’ve crossed, the challenges we’ve met, the moments that changed us. Then it’s farewell to the Kinfish, the crew, and the community we’ve built, carrying home a renewed sense of connection, resilience, and the wildness that’s always been ours. Until next time