...your guide above the arctic circle

Hello and welcome to Abisko


Abisko Adventure is a guide agency in Abisko that guides, among other things, try-out ice climbing, hiking tours, snowshoe tours, aurora tours and offers private guided tours in the area around Abisko.

There is a lot to discover in Abisko. Here are valleys, heights, lakes and jocks and we guide you to your upcoming adventure in this magnificent nature.

Abisko National Park, Lapporten, Trollsjön, Kungsleden and Torneträsk are some of northern Lapland's finest gems in the Abisko-Riksgränsen mountains.

Abisko National Park was established in 1909 and is one of the first 8 national parks in Europe to be established the same year. As Abisko comes first in alphabetical order, it is usually called the first official national park. The purpose was to protect an area with high Nordic mountain nature and which commemorates land for scientific research.

The name Abisko comes from the North Sami name Ábeskovvu which translated into Swedish roughly means 'the forest by the big water'. The large water then refers to Torneträsk, which is Sweden's sixth largest and second deepest lake. However, Torneträsk is considered Sweden's largest mountain lake.

Tjuonavaggi or Lapporten is one of Sweden's most characteristic rock formations. It is a U-shaped valley formed by the ice sheet and lies between Tjuonacohkka in the east and Nissoncorru in the west. Tjuonavaggi means goose valley in Sami and the mountain peaks means goose top and the women's top. The valley to the west is called Nissonvaggi and means the women's valley. Only women were allowed to pass there in the past and the men were only allowed to walk through Lapporten so as not to bring bad luck, according to legend.

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