All gloves for Arctic tours

Gloves are of course indispensable when participating in one of our Arctic tours.
During the day you are generally busy and there is good blood flow.
Then you don’t really need much more than some basic tools to keep your hands warm.
You often wear multiple layers of gloves to keep yourself well warm, while cross-country skiing for example.
As a first layer, for example, you can use gloves without lining.
These gloves will ensure that during an Northern Lights trip, you won’t be bothered by the cold wind cutting past your hands.

A second layer of gloves for Arctic tours

When it starts to get colder during the Northern Lights vacation, gloves without lining are obviously not enough.
In that case, it is advisable to choose thicker wool gloves.
We prefer gloves with strings so you can hang them around your neck.
This is nice when you need a little more freedom of movement with your fingers.
Under the thicker gloves, you can still put on thin fleece gloves if necessary.
This will keep your hands even better warm during your Northern Lights trip.

Gloves for your Northern Lights trip

During a Northern Lights trip in Norway, Sweden or Lapland, it is always advisable to wear multiple layers of gloves so that your hands are optimally protected.
Want to wear multiple layers of gloves?
If so, that’s also something to consider when buying gloves.
Take your thick gloves one size bigger, so you can wear layers under this if necessary.
Otherwise, the gloves may pinch and you obviously want to avoid that.
Three layers of gloves is enough to wear during the day on your Northern Lights trip.
When you are in camp, you will want to use your fingers.
In that case, for example, you can choose leather gloves with a wool interior.

Navigating the Hardangervidda in Norway

Leather gloves with a wool interior

Thus, leather gloves with a wool interior are ideal when work needs to be done.
This is because these gloves offer you a lot of freedom of movement.
A good option are Hestra brand gloves.
This brand offers genuine work gloves with a wool interior that you can also remove from the glove.
This is ideal for when you start sweating while working in camp.
This allows you to dry the inside of the gloves separately.

Gloves are very important during Arctic treks

Want to see the Northern Lights?
Good gloves are very important if you are participating in an Arctic expedition or trip to the South Pole.
Because of the very low temperatures, it is important to protect your body properly at all times.
Your hands must be very well protected, otherwise your fingers may even freeze.
This is incredibly dangerous.
So it is definitely wise to bring comprehensive equipment.
After reading this page, you will have a good idea of which gloves to wear.
Do you have any questions about the equipment you should bring?
If so, please feel free to contact us!
It is important to us that every participant in our expeditions is well prepared.

Video on use of gloves

Below you can read the transcript of the video recorded by Henk-Jan Geel about the expedition materials.

‘In this video, I’m going to tell you a little bit about the gloves and mittens I wear to keep my hands and fingers warm.
During the day it’s actually pretty simple then you’re busy and then there’s plenty of circulation and then yeah then I don’t have that much on the hands to keep them warm, but some basics I use wool mittens like these that I actually have as the first layer over my hands, and over that I have these gloves these are gloves with no lining this is just actually a hard shell just like my pants and my jacket, no lining, but this keeps the wind out well so here I have the first layer, then the second layer, this is what I have on.
There is a string on this glove that I can put over my neck and if I want to take my gloves off for just a moment I can drop my glove, but then it stays attached to my neck and you get the gloves back on easily as well.
So this is basically what I run with all day.
On days when it is slightly colder and thus feels fresher and I can’t get my hands properly warm then I can put another thin fleece glove underneath.
So make sure if you have glove that they are roomy that they don’t pinch off.
This glove this is really a super big glove for my hands, but with this I can have multiple layers on top of each other.
So now I have a fleece glove then the wool mitt and it’s already warm and then the overwant the overwant I can put it on a little bit.
I never pull it all the way tight, because then you de pinch the blood supply to your fingers, and you don’t want that, you want the blood to be able to flow everywhere, and the beauty of this system is also that I can possibly pull this strap off and use the glove just this way.
So you have one-two-three layers here.
This is what I am wearing during the day when I am moving.
When I get to camp in the evening I want to use my fingers to be able to set up the tent to operate the stove, that’s what I have these gloves for.
These are leather gloves from the Hestra brand with a wool interior.
I put those on.
What I like about these gloves is that the seams which are stitched and they are stitched on the outside so I don’t have anything against my fingers that feels annoying.
They are water repellent, well windproof.
They are real work gloves.
I do notice that when I go to work I get sweaty hands and the beauty of this glove is that the inside I can take out.
So this I can dry separately from this and so the inner glove that also goes separately in my sleeping bag to dry there these are actually the the mittens and the gloves that I use during my arctic expeditions.
Gloves for in camp and mittens for while moving.’