The Sweden Survival Expedition

By Tom Williams, winner of Channel 4’s Alone

Train in the wild with expert instructors. then face a genuine 3-day solo survival challenge.

From:

£2,900

Duration:

10 days

Date:

VARIOUS

Max People:

9

Min Age:

18+

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Step Into the Adventure

Our adventures follow a simple arc:
Learn → Survive → Celebrate.

Learn

Do you watch Alone and wonder if you’d have what it takes? This is your chance to find out: spend five days camping in the Swedish wilderness with your new tribe, learning bushcraft from expert instructors (including past Alone contestants) as you master fire-making, fishing, foraging, shelter-building, and survival psychology, gaining new skills and confidence every day.

Survive

Then it’s time to go solo. You’ll hike to your own lakeside spot with just a handful of items: knife, pot, sleeping bag. For three nights, you’ll be fully on your own. You’ll make shelter, source water, forage or fish, and face the reality of being truly alone.

Celebrate

On the final morning, you’ll be rescued. greeted with snacks and a drink. before heading to what feels like a 10★ hotel for hot showers, a survival feast, and story swapping with your fellow survivors.

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Key Facts

Location

Swedish wilderness, Sundsvall.

Length

10 days / 9 nights. 5 days training + 3-day solo challenge + 1 celebration.

Group Size

9 participants.

Who It’s For

Fans of Alone, adventurers curious about solo survival, anyone wanting resilience-building and self-discovery.

Remarkable Moments

Build and sleep in your own wilderness shelter.

Master bushcraft skills taught by past Alone contestants.

Fish and forage in pristine Swedish wilderness.

Spend three nights fully solo, cut off from the world.

Celebrate with a survival feast after your rescue.

All upcoming departures

7-Day Cool Off

Flexibility

Safety

More Info

Trip Summary

Do you watch the show Alone and crave to experience it for yourself? Now it’s your turn to live cut off from the world, building a shelter and foraging for your food. First, however, you need to learn the skills, so we have brought in past contestants of the show to teach you all the bushcraft, and survival skills that you need to equip you.

For the first 4 nights it is survival light, we all camp in the woods together in our own tents communal cooking and eating around the campfire. Each day is packed with nature walks skills development, great eats and a healthy amount of fun.

After a 5-day crash course, quickly developing you into a bushcraft champ, it’s time to hike out to your lakefront home for the next 3 nights with little more than your hand knife pot and sleeping bag. Sh*t’s about to get real. This is your real survival challenge, there is no one else to rely on but yourself. What will you prioritise first? Shelter, water, fire or food?

Then, after the third night, when you are either hitting your wall or ready for another 3 months, you are rescued (with a cold beer or coke and snacks), to head back to what now feels like a 10* hotel for a survival feast and story swapping with all of your other survivors.

Day 1: We meet you in Sundsvall and drive ever deeper into the Swedish wilderness. Then we will hike to our base camp. After an expedition briefing, we will launch into your bushcraft training.
Day 2: After breakfast, we develop your skills in finding food, everything from foraging and wild edible identifying to ways you can fish and track animals. This includes trapping theory (though no killing as it’s not permitted in southern Sweden).
Day 3: Today you will learn different techniques to make a fire. In the afternoon, we teach you the different ways to build a shelter, as well as weaving cordage, and knot tying.
Day 4: We teach you the different ways to build a shelter, as well as weaving cordage, and knot tying.
Day 5: This our final day of training, chalking off survival psychology, mindset and strategy. We cover water procurement and purification theory, wilderness cooking and long-term survival techniques.
Day 6: This is it. After breakfast each contestant makes their way to their solo vantage along the lake, where, with just a few limited items, you will be sustaining yourself for the next 3 days (guests can choose to pair up if they prefer).
Day 7: Waking up to the mist over the lake, and throwing your line out in an effort to catch breakfast, your survival challenge continues. This is where the growth really happens, and your resilience is honed.
Day 8: When was the last time you went 3 days without speaking to another human? It does not take much solitude to truly feel the absence of humanity, and learn a lot about yourself.
Day 9: You have made it, You have survived and rescue is on the way. Greeted with a drink and some breakfast snacks, we head to a hotel that now feels 10* for the best shower of your life and a feast of a lunch. In the evening, we have a celebratory meal together, sharing stories and trying to put the experience into words.
Day 10: Departure

SHELTER

Hammock and tarp setup and care
Shelter building
Machete and knife safety, sharpening and skills

Fire

Fire theory
Friction fire skills (bow drill and hand drill)

Water

Transpiration bags
Solar still
Evaporation techniques
Boiling water in bottles over fire

FOOD

Fishing with hand line
Tree climbing
Trap building
Wild edible identification

OTHER

Psychology discussion and case studies
Astro-navigation

5 days of survival training by a world-class bushcraft guide.
General kit (incl. hammocks, camping gear, machetes, etc.). There are a few essential items that you need to bring.
3-day survival challenge
1 night at a hotel in Sundsvall (twin, shared basis)
All food and drinks
All transfers

International flights
Train to Sundsvall
Visas, if required
Personal travel insurance
Personal expenses

Yes for the final 3 days you will be entirely alone. When was the last time you didn’t talk to another human for 3 days? For many never, this is a wonderful time for introspection disconnection and growth.

Yes, it is possible to pair up or undertake this with a friend or two, it’s your call.

If you feel like you can no longer continue you can be rescued and camp out with the instructors for the remaining days.

All of our instructors are wilderness first aid qualified. For the final 3 days you will check in via one-way phone in the AM and PM. Just like on the TV show Alone.

Isolated, it’s unlikely you will see another human or signs of humans. Though not far from Sundsvall this is still a wild and isolated area of Sweden, not as the north but given the ease of access it feels like you are cut off.

We will meet in Sundsvalle and drive into the wild until we are surrounded by blueberry and lakes. Stockholm is well-connected and cheap to fly to from most of europe.

You will need to travel to Sundsvalle (fly to Stockholm, Sweden (Stockholm Arlanda Airport ARN ) and then take a train). You should arrive around midday of your expedition start date.

We recommend you download Hopper’ for your phone and enter your dates. They will tell you when the best time to book your flights is before the price creeps up, typically 90 days prior is optimum.

We also love using flight connection maps for finding your best route from where you live.

Google flights is our favourite flight search engines, however, we always recommend booking directly with the airline once you have found your flights as you will have a preferential cancellation policy and better upgrade potential.

Check out our Sweden Travel Guide for more information about the destination or check out our blog for Sweden related articles.

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Only 5-Star Reviews

“I’m not sure where to start, this was one of the best trips I’ve ever done. I learnt invaluable skills, reconnected to nature, reassessed whats really important to me, and made some new friends along the way…”
Thomas Nicholls
“There are experiences that are memorable and there are experiences that are life altering, Desert Island Survival was certainly the latter for me and it happened in the exact right moment in life when I desperately needed to reset, heal and regroup….”
Oleg Ravnushkin
“Amazing! ☀️ This trip was incredible, and I am so glad I did it! I would 100% recommended this company, they are great. They offer consistent communication and support from booking to preparing for your trip, and look after you well during it…”
Ciara Rooney

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