I’d never really considered Northern Sweden—specifically Harads—which is in Swedish Lapland, on the very edge of the Arctic Circle, and home to the Northern Lights and a lot of reindeer.

Rafa Vadillo from Catalonia, Spain, reports about new ice climbs established in Swedish Lapland, in particular in the Stora Sjöfallet National Park and the Sarek National Park. In 2016 I traveled to ...