Sweden

Arctic Sweden hides one of Europe's last roadless, bridgeless wildernesses, a mountain you can only reach by fording rivers on foot, and a national pastime of diving beneath frozen lake ice for fun.

2 Ice & Snow lines

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Extreme Skiing · Jämtland

Backcountry ski touring, Åre

EXPERTRisk: HIGHSEK Guided day ~1,800–2,600

Skinning up beyond Åre's resort boundary into open sub-Arctic bowls and couloirs, with terrain that stays genuinely wild once you're a short skin from the lifts — Sweden's biggest ski town but with a fraction of the backcountry traffic of comparable Alpine resorts.

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Ice Diving · Storsjön / Siljan lakes

Ice diving, frozen lake

EXPERTRisk: HIGHSEK Guided session ~1,200–1…

Certified divers cut a hole through a metre of lake ice and descend tethered into water so clear under the ice sheet that visibility can exceed 30m — a genuinely popular Swedish winter pastime, though one that still requires specialist certification before anyone gets near the hole.

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