Terms and conditions
Please read carefully our following Terms and Conditions. It is implicit that you have read, understood and agreed to our following Terms and Conditions when booking the event packages with Arctic Ice Festival / Arctic Mountain Adventures AS.
In the following text, „you“ is to be interpreted as the client who has made the booking
1. Booking Procedure
1.1. Booking for the gathering is only possible by registration on this page
1.2 Payment is possible via invoice
2. Cancellation
2.1. Should you need to cancel a confirmed booking, you must notify us by email.
2.2. Prior to 30 days before departure: booking fee of 50% of the total price is non refundable.
2.3. Less than 30 days before departure: no refund. (check with your insurance company that you have a cancellation insurance)
2.4. Should you wish to not participate in your chosen clinic, for whatever reason, at any stage of the festival, you are not entitled to any refund.
2.5. All our guides reserve the right to change the location and duration of the clinic booked should we believe that starting/continuing with the booked clinic would place you, any participant and/or guides at undue risk due to unfavorable weather/environmental conditions and/or client ability. This applies to all our clinics.
2.6. If weather does not permit clinics/activities outdoors , Artic Ice Festival will reserve the right, to cancel the clinics/activites and replace them with indoor seminars.
2.7. If the Arctic Ice Festival should be cancelled you will get a full refund.
3.Clinics
3.1. Our guides will always do their best to help you fulfill your objectives while keeping any dangers to an absolute minimum.
3.2. All guides reserve the right to change location and duration of clinic booked should he/she believe that starting/continuing with the booked clinic would place you, any clinic member and/or guides at undue risk due to unfavorable weather conditions and/or client ability. This applies to all clinics.
4. Insurance
4.1. Arctic Ice Festival / Arctic Mountain Adventures AS do not provide any insurance coverage for its guests.
4.2. It is your own responsibility to decide on the level of insurance you wish to have. The following information is intended as a guide only. We accept no responsibility for costs incurred that are not covered by your insurance.
We highly recommend that you have:
4.3. Accident insurance (Ulykkesforsikring) covering activities like ice climbing and off-piste skiing. Not all accidents insurance do, so check with your insurance company that you are insured for these activities. When member of an Alpine Club check with their membership insurance.
4.4. Holiday cancellation insurance (Reiseforsikring): in case of illness or injury that holds you from participating in the booked activity, a holiday cancellation insurance can help you get a refund for the booked activity.
5. Acknowledgement of Risk
5.1. By booking an activity with Arctic Ice Festival / Arctic Mountain Adventures AS, you thereby acknowledge that ice climbing, mountaineering and skiing are hazardous activities with the risk of serious injury or death, and accept all risks associated with activities in mountainous terrain and at high altitude. Arctic Ice Festival / Fjellkysten AS can NOT made liable for any illness, injury, death, loss or material damage that you may suffer in connection with your activity/clinic, nor for any failure by you to take out adequate insurance.
5.2. Except in respect of death or personal injury caused by grand negligence of your guide, none of our guides, the organization team or staff members will be made liable for any illness, injury, death, loss or material damage that you may suffer in connection with your activity, nor for any failure by you to take out adequate insurance.
5.3. The guides will to their best ability try to minimize risk, but can never fully be expected to delete all risk involved in the high-risk activities that ice climbing and skiing are. For the guides to be able to do their job in risk minimizing, it is of outermost importance that you at all times follow the guides directions and instructions.
6. Covid -19
Please check this link of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health to understand the rules for traveling into Norway. If we need to cancel the event due to Covid-19 regulations you will get a full refund except a handling fee of 100 EURO / 1.000NOK .