Light
45 to 120 minutes
Keynote
Markus or Thomas on your stage. The story of a polar crossing, and the handful of decisions that decide whether a team comes home. Longer formats and a pre or post apéro slot on request.
The boardroom shows you what your team can do. Nature shows you who they are.
We teach you how to apply the lessons we learned in intense survival situations to the corporate setting.
Two ways in. Companies bring a team. Universities bring a cohort. If you are a senior individual or a founder, your place is on an expedition, and we will point you there.
Pick the depth that fits the team and the moment. Every format is safe, professional, and built to show people something true about how they work together.
Markus or Thomas on your stage. The story of a polar crossing, and the handful of decisions that decide whether a team comes home. Longer formats and a pre or post apéro slot on request.
Thirty to fifty people in the woods and hills of the Alps. Campfire, boat-building, exercises that use nature as a mirror for how a team leads, follows, and decides under a little pressure. Around Davos, or just across the border in Austria or southern Germany, wherever the terrain fits the group.
A winter ski-tour over the Flüela, or Alpine settings that sit as close to cut-off as you can be while still within reach of civilisation. In the Alps around Davos, or just over the border in Austria or Germany. The team carries the day together.
The deep end. Four to eight people, a tight leadership team, dropped into real wilderness in Norway or Svalbard. Days of self-reliance and real cold, with our guides carrying the safety so the team can carry everything else. The same expedition backbone we run for university cohorts, turned toward the people who run things. This is where a team finds out who it actually is.
Group sizes are a guide, not a cap. We can host larger teams on request. But these programmes are built around small, committed groups. Exclusivity is the point, not volume.
Swiss expedition leader from Davos. Three crossings of the Greenland ice sheet, including a 558 km father-and-daughter traverse to the abandoned DYE-2 radar station at minus 35°C in 2025. Years lived off-grid with his family and has been on expeditions across the Canadian wilderness, the South Australian outback and Greenland. TEDx speaker, and the mind behind Natural Leadership. More at blumundweg.ch.
IFMGA mountain guide with more than 35 years on polar ice and alpine walls. National Geographic Adventurer of the Year for a 113-day Arctic traverse from the North Pole to Franz Josef Land with Børge Ousland. First unsupported crossing of the Southern Patagonian Icecap, first winter ascent of Cerro Torre's West Face, and a Banff-winning expedition filmmaker. More at thomasulrich.com.
Chief Medical Officer at the World Economic Forum, and team doctor at the Milan 2026 Olympic Games for the biathlon at Antholz. Chief Medical Officer of HC Davos, Switzerland's leading hockey club, and head of sports medicine at Davos Sports & Health, Davos Hospital since 2020. He runs the medical screening every expedition member clears before the ice.
Built for MBA and EMBA cohorts. One programme, two expeditions, a year apart.
One programme, two series, built for MBA and EMBA cohorts.
Series 01 crosses Norway in March.
Series 02 crosses the Greenland ice in May. Alumni of the first earn priority on the second.
Roughly one in six who apply are selected.
Applications open 1 September 2026.
Series 01 closes 30 November 2026, Series 02 closes 30 December 2026.