About Tromsø Aurora Husky

Tromsø Aurora Husky puts adventure and quality first. Only a handful of guests are allowed to visit our kennel.

In this focus to deliver quality and create unique experiences for the guests who visit us, we serve local food, and all tents are handmade and hand-sewn by our Sami people. The dogsleds are handmade in Norway and Sweden, and we serve salted and dried meat that has won awards for Norway's best salted ham. The clothes I lend to guests are either made of leather or cotton.

We believe that our dogs get the best treatment by having fewer guests, allowing them to thrive in harmony with nature and the guests who visit us. Animal welfare is our most important factor in the kennel. Our season is based on three months during the winter in Tromsø, and in the summer, the dogs live on Norway's third-largest glacier, experiencing various adventures and destinations full of joy. When not traveling, they live on a peaceful mountain farm, where they can run freely together as a herd. This is important for their muscles, joints, and maintaining their pack mentality.

We only use Norwegian raw materials; here again, only the best quality is good enough. Nothing is more important than ensuring the dogs are well and live a varied everyday life, with the right balance between leisure and work, which they enjoy the most. I am one of the very few who travel with their dogs around the world to experience adventures together. I love nature, animals, and adventure—that's what I'm passionate about, and I want to share our everyday life and passion with our guests.

Everyone is welcome to join our tours. We drive up to 16 dogs per sled, allowing families to sit together, with the option for one person to steer the sled themselves. This is very unique. Each team gets a guide on the sled, ensuring the dogs are guided safely through the landscape, while also feeling the power of a large team.

If you have mobility challenges, please let us know, and we will adapt the experience for everyone.

On every trip, a hot meal is provided. Please inform us if you require a vegetarian or vegan option. Hot drinks such as coffee, cocoa, or tea are available. We also serve salted and dried meat from one of Norway's best raw materials. We have handpicked warm clothes and shoes for our guests, made from quality materials. There is no age limit for our trips, but please bring the necessary equipment for transporting infants and children. Transport to and from the center of Tromsø is included.

About me

MOA HUNDSEID

I am 29 years old, born and raised on a farm in Vikedal. A small village surrounded by vast, beautiful westland mountains, here my interest in outdoor life has been cultivated.

As a one-year-old, I had to be forced into the cabin with skis on because I would rather be outside. That's how it is to this day. I would most like to be out on adventures, either on long skiing expeditions, on high mountains or on a sledding trip with my polar dogs in Norway or at home in my western mountains. Therefore, it is perhaps not so strange that I have chosen the life path I have followed, as a polar guide and adventurer.

Since I am mostly outdoors all year round you will most likely see me with tangled hair and tanned cheeks. My faithful polar dogs dangling after me is another great way to recognise me.

Below you can see my adventures until now!

EXPEDITIONS

  • 2013
    - Around the world - visit all seven continents.

  • 2014:
    - Crossing Greenland on skis, 600 km.
    - Crossing the length of Norway on foot, 3000 km

  • 2015:
    - Cross the Arctic Glacier in Patagonia, Chile.Known for its inaccessibility, extreme weather and its wild glacial landscape.
    - Cross Havana Beach in Cuba on skis. The world's first crossing of Havana Beach on skis.
    - Lived as a dog handler in the wilderness in Alaska, USA.

  • 2016:
    - Kobuk River with skis and sleds along in Alaska. 400 km through Inuit culture and minus 50 degrees with predators as backdrops.
    - Guided an international group for Børge Ousland Explorations across Greenland. 600 km.
    - Hike in the Himalayas in Nepal alone with all equipment in a 30 kg backpack. Ended my stay with a top visit to Island Peak 6189 masl.

  • 2017
    - Made a new trip for the company Børge Ousland Explorations, a trip over the Northwest Passage. 400 km through polar bear country, pack ice and raw landscape!
    - Elbrus, Kauakasus, Russia. Europe's highest mountain. 5640 masl.
    - Manaslu, Nepal 8163 masl.

  • 2018
    - Island Peak 6189 masl, Nepal
    - Mount Everest 8848 masl, Nepal

  • 2019
    - Northwest Passage 400 km on skis in Canada, guide for Ousland explorers.
    - Finnmarksvidda, guide for Ousland Explorers
    - Norway's first expedition to the Himlung Himal, Nepal 7126 masl with skis in the bag.

  • 2020 - 2021
    - Broken leg & Covid-19

  • 2022
    - Northwest Passage, Canada, 400 km Cambridge bay - Gjoa Haven
    - Mount Shivling 6543 masl, Expedition