You focus on the magic, we’ll handle the memories
Rather Chilly is an independently run adventure tour and media company operating in the rather chilly landscapes of Finnish Lapland.
Led by a professional photographer with a severe northern lights addiction, every moment is captured with high quality mirrorless cameras and lenses, so you can focus on the magic while we handle the memories.
Our specialty is northern lights tours, where we’ll take you to a location identified through researching weather models where we will have the best chance to see the aurora. Whether it’s a 30 minute out of town or 3 hour drive deep into Swedish Lapland, we want to see the lights as much as you do so we’ll make sure we get there!
Limited availbility open for 2025/2026, book now!
Meet the founder
Aleksi Monaghan
G’day, I’m a half Australian / half Finnish photographer who left the warmth and sunshine of Sydney to thrive in the cold and darkness of Finnish Lapland.
Armed with some very rusty Finnish speaking skills gained from my Finnish mother, I moved to Finland in 2018 to complete six months of military service in Santahamina near Helsinki. After endless trekking through snow covered forests, camping in -27 degrees and getting just a little bit addicted to the extremities that Finland offers, I’ve found it a bit difficult to live anywhere else now.
A life long photographer, I’ve always been around good quality camera gear and always had the knowledge of how to perfectly frame a subject. My dad is one of those ones who takes a few too many photos of everything, naturally this bug has been passed forward to me.
I only moved to Rovaniemi in August of 2024 where I seemingly stumbled into the coolest job ever, guiding northern lights hunts. After seeing my first big northern lights explosion rip the sky in half back in early September, I was instantly hooked.
Rather Chilly is an idea that had been cooking in my brain ever since I caught the aurora bug. Believe me when I say that I want to see the aurora as much as you do, that’s why I’m going to use my expertise in aurora hunting to get us wherever we need to be to see it, and of course take some crackingly good photos that hopefully you’ll be framing in your living room back home!