Nordkapp - The North Cape. Extreme Arctic vanlife, but can we make it all the way?

After the excitement of our trip to Hornøya island last week, now we are travelling west and north towards Nordkapp - the North Cape.

This is the furthest you can drive in Europe and much further north than you can drive in the USA as well. The roads up here are solid ice and snow, even at the start of April. They are also utterly beautiful. This place is a complete wilderness and somewhere you must visit if you can possibly manage it. You won't be disappointed. In the mean time, watch this video and you'll see why this place should be on everybody's bucket list.

We spent two years self converting our Mercedes Sprinter van into our little home on wheels. After some serious Arctic preparations, it's perfectly capable of taking us all the way to the far north, 300 miles into the Arctic and experiencing as low as -23 Celsius.

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Our Arctic preparations video. Learn how we prepared our van to cope with the extremes of the Arctic.    • Preparing for the Arctic - getting ready f...  

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Firebird https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/H...
Loxely https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/p...
Guarded skies https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/i...
Unspeakable joy https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/i...


00:01 Intro
00:16 Leaving Vardø
02:04 Parkup at Smalfjord
06:47 snow plough
08:32 The weather starts coming in
11:08 We can't see the road
12:21 Preparations
15:46 The most incredible view
20:03 Arriving at Nordkapp
22:22 Outro

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