The Lofoten Islands are among the world’s most scenic and formidable destinations for winter surfing. Massive Arctic swells regularly hit the bay of Unstad, a tiny town with an outsize reputation.

The Lofoten Islands in the far north of Norway have always been a world apart, a peninsula-like chain of wild, craggy shards jutting into the Norwegian Sea above the Arctic Circle. In Norse ...

Norway’s long and thin Lofoten Archipelago can be an unearthly place, especially when its snowy, craggy peaks suddenly pop out of the fog as you meander its seventy-mile length. It was right ...