The first time I heard about the Lofoten Islands, I was in a fairly different place, much closer to the equator, talking to the Austrian surf photographer Lea (@letschbetsch) in Boa Vista, Cabo Verde. I immediately took a note of the place, gave it a search and wondered if that would be a place where I could wing… The idea of riding in the Arctic was to me equally fascinating and nerve-wracking, and the thought of exploring some snowy locations like that had already crossed my mind several times, but it always stayed in the realm of “maybe one day”.
Coincidentally around a month later I came across a video of professional kiters Reno Romeo and Hannah Whiteley in some beautiful cold spot, checked the location and,
