Fjällräven Polar 2018 starts on 9 April and ends on 14 April.

Voting for the 2018 event opens on 16 November and ends on 14 December 2017.

Any curious person who would like to go on the adventure of a lifetime can apply for Fjällräven Polar. You don’t need to have any previous experience in the outdoors in the winter. But you must be at least 18 years old and you need to speak English.

You apply for Fjällräven Polar by uploading a short video or a picture here together with an explanation for why you should be chosen. Your entry than competes with the other entries from your country for one of the spots. The person who receives the most votes in each country/group is chosen to participate in Fjällräven Polar. Fjällräven chooses the second person from each country/group.

Yes, but you can only vote once.

Yes. Once you have uploaded your entry, you are also able to remove your entry. If you remove your entry, you are welcome to upload a new one. Please note that if you remove your entry, you will lose all of the votes you received.

We have chosen to use Facebook for two reasons. Firstly, it speeds up the sign-up process because you don’t have to enter loads of contact information and you can easily encourage your friends to vote for your entry. Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, it is to ensure that the voting process works properly. Facebook has a complete and well-tested function for just this purpose.

If your name is at the top of the list of the votes from your country, you will automatically receive a spot in Fjällräven Polar. If our team of researchers finds any evidence of cheating your entry will be cancelled. The winners will be announced from the 15th of December and the list of participants will be published on the website.

If the person who won his/her country’s votes can’t participate, the spot will go to the person who had the second highest number of votes.

We’ll provide you with all the winter equipment you’ll need for Polar. And you’ll get to keep most of it once you’ve completed the event. However, you should bring personal items like toiletries and other things you’d like to have with you. But space is limited. A complete pack list will be published before the start of the trip.

No, our outdoor experts will be with you at all times to guide you. One of the objectives of the event is to demonstrate that anyone - with the right equipment and right preparation - can experience the adventure of a lifetime.

Yes. If you are chosen as one of the participants, we will pay for your travel to and from Fjällräven Polar.

You should choose the country where you are a citizen. If you have dual or multiple citizenship rights, you can choose which of those countries to represent. Once you've stated your citizenship in the application, you will automatically be placed into a 'region', which will be the group you will compete within. If you win, you will be asked to submit your passport details in order for us to book your plane tickets. This information should match the citizenship details you submitted in your application.