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.
For teams that have to act before all the facts are in. Managers or team members out of the office and into real terrain: real decisions under real pressure, then a structured debrief. Davos, the Jungfraujoch, or wherever the terrain fits the group.
For boards and leadership teams who want to make firm decisions when the targets keep moving. A mountain hotel or an expedition tent, in Davos, on the Jungfraujoch, or wherever in Switzerland the terrain fits the group.
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.