About

Mountain guides on Kebnekaise.

Nordtopp Guides takes small groups to the top of Sweden’s highest mountain. We guide the two classic routes from Kebnekaise mountain station, teach glacier and ice-axe skills, and lead private trips in Swedish Lapland.

South summit
2,084 m
Mountain station
672 m
Classic routes
2
Guides
4

How we guide

Four rules we keep on every trip.

  1. Small groups

    At most eight guests per guide on the Western route and six on the Eastern route and the course. Private groups are four at most.

  2. The weather decides

    We choose the start time and the turn-around time from the forecast, and we keep to them. The summit will still be there next year.

  3. One pace for the group

    We walk at the speed of the slowest person, with a short stop every hour to eat, drink and look around.

  4. Leave it as we found it

    We stay on the paths, carry everything back down, and keep groups small so the mountain stays quiet.

The guides

Four people, all summer on the mountain.

You meet your guide the evening before your climb, for the plan, the forecast and a kit check.

  • Astrid Lind

    Lead guide

    Astrid plans every summit day around the weather window and makes the call on the mountain. She leads most Western route days in July.

  • Johan Nyberg

    Guide

    Johan leads the Eastern route days and the private groups who choose the steeper way up. Calm, patient, and always first to check a buckle.

  • Maja Berg

    Guide

    Maja runs the glacier and ice-axe course. She teaches crampon work and rope skills step by step, at the group’s own speed.

  • Erik Kallio

    Guide

    Erik leads Western route days in August and longer private trips. He likes an early start and an even pace.

The mountain on our home page

Real elevation data, drawn in 3D.

The 3D view of Kebnekaise is built from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30: one height every 25 m over an area of 11.35 by 12.8 km. The two routes are traced from OpenStreetMap. Every distance, climb and height on this site is worked out from that data.

  • Heights shown 1.5 times taller than they are, so the shape of the massif reads from a distance. All numbers use the real heights.
  • Lowest point 529 m, highest 2,084 m in this area of the elevation data.
  • At the very edge the model sinks into the haze, so there is no cut-off wall. The mountain and the routes are shown as measured.
Turn the mountain
The same elevation data from above, lit from the south-west. North is up.

Data and credits

Elevation: Copernicus DEM GLO-30, © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA. Routes and places: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

A demo site

Nordtopp Guides is a demo. The guides, dates, prices and group sizes on this site are examples. The mountain, the routes and every number worked out from them are real.

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