lukas.phallberg

Name: lukas.phallberg
Address: Tibro, SE
Telephone: +46701594699

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Adventure and outdoors photography, based in Scandinavia.

17/07/2026

End of course.

We let our semester students on the loose for 2 nights hiking back to our pickup. It has been an amazing time out in the mountains with an amazing crew of people!
Lots of good conversations, laughter, time to reflect and good learnings for all of us!

Huge shoutout to my badass instructor team that made this such an enjoyable experience. Setting such a good foundation of an environment for growth, teamwork and openness. Being on a route where noone had been before they were showcasing glacier ice routefinding like it is wizardry and having so much knowledge of the terrain and technical skills as well as people skills. Could not ask for a better first mountain course!
Much love to the team, the students and ultimately Mama Alaska and the chugach range for humbling us and showing us all your beauty.

14/07/2026

Alaska semester mountain section

Ration three part 2

As we finished up our base camp classroom we started heading down the Nelchina to reach the toe.
With some challenging navigation and travel in heavy snow fall we found ourselves at the toe of the glacier. Quickly drying up for a long wet day in the snow. The peaks had a refreshing layer of snow on their peaks which was a beautiful sight.
Next step was to find our way over the outlet river from the Tarr/Sylvester glaciers. After some scouting we found our way across and got to our last and final reration site.

Here we camped and prepared for the last short ration period which was an independent student expedition where the students traveled by themselves to our pick up location.

To make them ready we had covered a variety of classes to make them able to travel by themselves including a basic first aid curriculum. The ledge we camped on had terriffic views and I must say its one of the most impressive classroom backdrops i have had so far.

We ended our time with the student with a really nice evening and also some tarot card readings for those who wanted!

14/07/2026

Alaska semester mountain section

Ration three part 1

For our third ration we started coming down the nelchina. Stopping for a bit on the way to get to practise some ice climbing, do some more technical classes and a walk up a mountain to get some nice views before heading down glacier.

12/07/2026

Alaska semester mountain section

Ration two

After a little bit of a rest near an idyllic lake we hopped over a pass to our next glacier arm. The Nelchina. Mother nature still gave us her blessing with good weather and firm snow. So we set our aim to our next reration campsite.

There we had a bunch of classes and living the primitier base camp life, digging huge cellar basement structures in the perimiter and a sweet council meeting table to decide who will get the ring for our adventure while waiting for our wounds to heal(feet).

Boiling snow for water and cooking in the snow takes more time and energy than one think, as well as keeping yourself dry in rainfall on snow. So as this was our first true perimiter camp there was some introduction time for the students to get used to it.

We ended up getting rerationed a day early because of weather that was coming in and the day after we thought we got stuck in hunker mode. We gladly crawled into our sleeping bags to enjoy a day of relaxing. Only to wake up a few hours later to wonderful sunshine. Knowing from the pilots weather forecast for us we knew we had to make this window count so we set out to start our hiking day at 6.30 pm.

11/07/2026

Alaska semester - mountain section

Ration one

Getting flown out to the start of our journey by amazing Matt (Blue Ice Aviation) for what seemed to be one of the largest toes of a glacier i have ever witnessed. The tazlina. After a quick rendezvous and some tips and tricks of how to pack their new carry systems(the students had only sea kayaked until this point). We all wonked away with a wide spektrum of perfect looking backpacks to ones that needed just a bit more attention.
The start of this route turned out to be quite interesting, as none of us instructors had been here before. So routefinding and coaching was done on the spot and we sneaked our way throught the side before we stumbled upon our first crux. To get diagonally through the crevassed and cracked up section to a flatter part in the middle.

With some new knowledge of how to use crampons we could tackle this with alot of chopping steps and routefinding through steep ice, only to find ourselves having to do the exact same thing going back to the side of the glacier in the end of the day. We decided to bail the glacier, following a bear that scrambled up the hill so fast it made us look like we are some aliens who dont know how to walk.(which we kind of are) We found camp high up on a ledge which turned out to be the highlight campsite of the trip!

From here we just had to get down to the glacier only to a few miles up get up the mountain again to cross a pass to get to our first re ration. Here ee encountered our second bear, a curious grizzly that is chaaaarging down the mountains to inspect us. Afraid that we would have to bail on our route as this grizzly was in the way we thought we might not make it to our reration spot in time. After bear left a tired crew was hauling up this mountain pass and showing incredible grit and strength to finish the first part of our route.

Common nominator of this ration period was long days, blister and foot care and it was not going to change our last day as we scaled down this steep mountainside in the rain using veggie belays to lower ourselves down to a good few days of rest!

27/05/2026

Another set of photos from the seminar.
Really excited to get back out into the mountains with students this summer! Found such a beautiful ice cave to practise ice placement, v threads and anchor building.

21/05/2026

Alaska mountaineering seminar 2026 summary.
Walking(posthauling) out the mat glacier to reach scandinavian peaks. Getting a little sunburned. Feeling the weight of a full mountaineering pack on my shoulders. Working on acceptance and being grateful for plan F. Taking care of eachother and supporting community in difficult times.
Building a cairn. Playing alot of games and laughing alot. Getting to know new friends.
Being humbled by the great alaskan outdoors. Escaping the purgatory. Getting to fly out with a helicopter.

16/01/2026

The patagonia mountaineering seminar.
10 days of practising moving in the mountains and establishing safe travel on exposed mountain terrain. Such an amazing and well rounded experience. Everything from super sunny and warm weather to snowfall, cold weather to high windspeed mountain pass crossings. Got to experience patagonia in a totally different way compared to through sea kayaking and the coast.
All made better with an awesome team of people to do it with. Also feel so blessed to have my one and only friend (and photo model) join in on the patagonia adventures! Have to capture that beautiful smile on photo wether or not it is in finland or chile!

11/01/2026

Usually dont take my photos in black and white mode on the camera but have been experimenting lately with focusing on composition more intentionally and been finding that it helps me to think of the shot in a totally different way than shooting in color 😁
More photos coming up from my mountaineering seminar in patagonia soon!

08/01/2026

When it lines up just perfectly

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