Who we are

Kasper Jæger is Danish of origin, born in Copenhagen, but has for his entire adult life felt much closer to the people and cultures in the far North than to big city people.

Strongest is his connection to the Greenlandic Inuit´s, his family has strong ties to Greenland. He came to Greenland for the first time in 2007, as soon as his first education was done and he was free to travel. Having loved the great outdoors since very early childhood, choosing to start guiding in Greenland was a very natural development. Outdoor pursuits like mountaineering, hiking, kayaking, sailing, skiing and dogsledding are all activities where Kasper has long experience both as a sportsman but certainly also as a guide. While working in Greenland and especially while living in Ilulissat, he gained a deep and strong love for the Inuit culture and the rich historical aspects of this unique culture. He also worked on projects with the local tourism industry to involve more locals in guiding and to give Inuit a place in the tourism industry.

Along his love for Greenland came his love of one special outdoor pursuit, dogsledding. This finally brought him to Karasjok in Norway where he was given the chance to work with one of the Scandinavian legends of the sport,, Sven Engholm. His time in Karasjok brought him close to the Sapmi people of northern Scandinavia and yet again he fell head long into this old and rich culture of quiet and strong people. Kasper felt so connected to Karasjok, dogsledding and to the Sapmi people that he quickly became a part of the company Turgleder AS. Turgleder is today one of very few company’s that has winter expedition on skiis and dogsled as prime products. Turgleder is also the only company in northern Norway to work close with the Sapmi people to allow for guests to meet and experience first-hand who they live, this has resulted in a National Geographical Travel magazine award in 2014.

In 2011 Kasper felt that it was time to educate himself and this lead to a 4 year period in Longyearbyen, Svalbard and to the university of Arctic Norway. He is now a university certified Arctic Nature Guide with a BA in tourism and Wildlife management.

Since 2012 Kasper has also worked as guide and expeditions leader onboard ships and yachts in the Arctic andAntarctic. Working on ships has brought him to even more remote places in the polar regions. Working with companies like Lindblad-National Geographic and EYOS expeditions, Kasper has taken the step into the high-end part of polar tourism.

Kasper is a practical person, that loves and takes a great deal of pride in his work, he will always go that extra mile to try and reach the goals that any client might have, all this while always having safety and respect for the places he visits, strongly in mind.

This practical approach to working and living in the polar regions, has also bought Kasper in touch with Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions(ALE). Here Kasper has been put in charge of running remote field camps in places like the Geographical south pole and at the Emperor penguin colony deep inside the Weddel sea. This work includes being responsible for several dusin people in some of the most remote places in the world, while helping running the logistics of food, fuel and personel, all of this by small propeller aircrafts with skis.

In 2018 Kasper was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society, namely for his two succesfull expeditions to the North West passage, from Greenland to Alaska. One of these trips is now world record holder for largest sailing yacht to ever go through. In 2019 Kasper´s long love for Norway culminated in him being granted citizenship so that he now holds a dual citizenship to both Denmark and Norway.

When not working, Kasper lives in Hamburg, Germany, with his wife and two children.