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  • 2025-26 Elemental Adventure Operated Trips

    By Elemental Adventure •

    EA-operated trips are skiing adventures that we design and deliver ourselves and schedule on the optimal dates - the trips that many of us dream of doing, but often prove impossible to arrange. Our 2025-26 plans include Antarctica, Chile, Greenland, Japan, Kazhakstan, Finnmark & British Columbia.

  • Last Frontier Heliskiing 2024 powder in the trees

    What's New for Winter 2025

    By Elemental Adventure •

    What's new in heli-skiing in 2025? We'll get you up to date and ready for powder plans.

  • Like it Steep?

    By James Morland •

    By choosing the right place and going with the right group at the right time of year you can set yourself up with the best odds of ramping up the pitch.


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  • 2025-26 Elemental Adventure Operated Trips

    By Elemental Adventure •

    EA-operated trips are skiing adventures that we design and deliver ourselves and schedule on the optimal dates - the trips that many of us dream of doing, but often prove impossible to arrange. Our 2025-26 plans include Antarctica, Chile, Greenland, Japan, Kazhakstan, Finnmark & British Columbia.

  • Last Frontier Heliskiing - 30 Years

    By •

    To celebrate 30 years of Last Frontier Heliskiing, we have three very special offers for winter 2026. Spaces are limited and must be booked by 31 March 2025.

  • Video of the Month: Ushba, Georgia

    By Elemental Adventure •

    Watch Faction athlete, Sam Anthamatten and friends Markus Eder and Leo Slemmett and draw lines in Georgia's (remarkably Alaskan-looking) Caucusus mountains.

  • skiing powder under blue sky

    Video of the Month: How to Ski Powder

    By Elemental Adventure •

    We've been trawling the internet for videos on powder skiing technique and this is one of the best.

  • 2025 Heliski Trip Ideas

    By Elemental Adventure •

    Seeking inspiration for your 2025 ski trip? Take a look through our ideas for the winter and beyond.

  • Revelstoke Opening Run 2024-25

    By Elemental Adventure •

    21st November - conditions looking great for the re-opening snow check before the first day of the winter at Revelstoke.

  • Video of the Month: Last Frontier Heliskiing 2024

    By Elemental Adventure •

    Feast your eyes on five days at Ripley Creek in Febuary 2024 and whet your appetite for winter 2025.

  • Last Frontier Heliskiing 2024 powder in the trees

    What's New for Winter 2025

    By Elemental Adventure •

    What's new in heli-skiing in 2025? We'll get you up to date and ready for powder plans.

  • ski tourers on a sunny day

    Ultimate Ski Touring (& Optional Heli Assistance)

    By Elemental Adventure •

    We tend to think of ski touring as the gastronomic fine dining answer to heliskiing’s “all you can eat” powder buffet. While the portions are miniscule by comparison, once experienced, their exquisite flavour gives them their own special appeal.

  • Video of the Month: La Liste

    By •

    A modern ski classic, La Liste tells the story of Jeremie Heitz' quest to conquer 15 of the Alps' most formidable descents in a single season.

  • Last Frontier Heliskiing - Look back to 2024 and forward to 2025 and 2026

    By Elemental Adventure •

    Enjoy the highlights reel of 2024, see what's coming in 2025 and a we have a very special offer for 2026...

  • helicopter outside Eagles Nest Lodge, Alaska

    Time to upgrade your chalet holiday? Top 10 Heliski Chalets

    By Elemental Adventure •

    Luxury chalets are all very well but does the skiing or snowboarding always hit the mark?

    Maybe it's time to upgrade your chalet ski holiday...

  • Revelstoke Cat-skiing Trip: January 2025

    By •

    Next January, Elemental Adventure will be hosting a limited spaces trip to Revelstoke in search of deep powder - the perfect combination of resort skiing and cat-skiing.

    Spaces are strictly limited.

  • Svalbard - Spring 2025

    By Elemental Adventure •

    At 80 degrees North, with mountains rising from the sea to 1500 metres, Svalbard is skiing's final frontier, but also a mesmerizing place to experience for non-skiing friends and family.

    Check out our 2024 gallery and learn about our 2025 and 2026 trips.

  • Ski to the beach in Iceland this May

    By Elemental Adventure •

    Midnight skiing, creamy corn snow, skiing to the beach and the possibility of skiing steep pitches make this a skier's bucket list must and 2024 is set to be a classic vintage.

  • Roaring fire inside Spirit Bear Chalet

    The Platinum Experience

    By James Morland •

    Where under-stated 5-star luxury merges seamlessly with the rugged Canadian wild to create one of the most refined luxury heli-ski experiences available today.

  • Steep heli-skiing in BC

    Big & Steep Heli-Skiing

    By James Morland •

    Bored of big commercial heliski operations with their over-sized groups and flat runs? Ready to step it up a notch and challenge some genuinely steep terrain? You are in the right place - almost.

  • 2025 will see the return of Legend to the waters of Greenland. Image Elemental Adventure

    2025 Trips Preview

    By Elemental Adventure •

    We've been planning an experience calendar like no other in 2025. From Japan's deepest turns to yacht-based ski touring in Norway and the heliskiing adventure of a lifetime in Greenland, here is our 2025 preview.

    What's more we're giving a pair of Faction skis to the party leader of all new 2025 group bookings.


Featured Adventure

  • Heli-skiers arrive at yellow helicopter

    Heli-Ski Safari

    By Jonas Ernevi •

    This is not your regular Canadian heli-skiing. This is big wild northern British Columbia and compared to southern BC with all of its heli-ski operations sandwiched together; it’s like a different country.

  • The Kuril Islands at Sunset

    The Kuril Islands & Kamchatka

    By James Morland •

    A more distant, end of the earth type place would be hard to imagine and for the past four years I had dreamed of skiing these gigantic volcanoes that rise so abruptly from the mythical sounding, Sea of Okhotsk.

  • Heliskiing Iceland, Image copyright Mathis Dumas

    Luxury and Adventure in Iceland

    By Elemental Adventure •

    Now, to complement the rustic charm and family history of Klaensholl; guests have the choice of opting for on-the-edge-of-the-fjord luxury. Or, for those ready for the adventure of a lifetime – jump aboard the ‘Ring of Fire’ heliski tour.