It wasn't made in a meeting room.
It was made out in the dark.
A story about two crashes, one idea, and a headlamp company built above the Arctic Circle.
View from Laslettinden — Burfjorden to the left, Kvænangsfjorden to the right. This is home.
Two Crashes. One Idea.
About sixteen years ago I started using headlamps for ski touring and mountain biking. Like most people, I bought what was available. My first serious attempt was a Magicshine on a night ski tour — roughly 350 lumens. I crashed into a tree I simply didn't see.
Working at the local bank at the time, I saved up for what was considered the best headlamp on the market: the Lupine Betty, 1,750 lumens. I thought that would solve it. It didn't. The beam had a shadow zone — and there was a large birch tree right in the middle of it. I saw it too late, hit it hard, and ended up at the emergency room with a mild concussion.
That was when the thought came. Naive, perhaps — but also the beginning of everything that followed:
That thought became the Arctic Light XPG 2000 — my first self-developed headlamp, built with a Norwegian partner. When the manufacturing path closed, I started over on my own. In 2014 I launched Moonlight. We built lamps and ski gear there for eight years. In June 2022 I sold my shares, left the company in good hands, and started thinking about what came next.
Chasing the Limits of What's Possible
The journey was never just about light. It was about what's possible when weight, performance, and quality matter to the people who use the gear every day.
During the Moonlight years we built a series of ski touring skis under the Carbon Race line — the lightest skis in their category. The crown of the line was a wide cruiser ski I am still proud of: fast, surprisingly light, and built for the kind of skiing where the mountain feels new again. Two ISPO Awards came of it — one for the original race ski, one for the cruiser. Many of those skis are still out there. I think of them often.
Alongside the skis we developed a touring telemark binding — light enough for long days uphill, stable enough to trust on the way down. The patent on that binding is still ours.
After Moonlight I spent two years helping other founders bring their products to market. Then, just before Christmas 2023, I read an article about the staggering volumes of electronic waste discarded every year. It hit hard. I started thinking about what my next contribution should be.
The answer was Stormlight.
The Most Demanding Users Aren't Always on a Summit
During the Moonlight years I learned something that has shaped every product decision since: fishermen, aquaculture workers, electricians, plumbers, carpenters and other tradespeople use their headlamp for hours at a time, in all weather, in conditions where failure is not an option.
Stormlight was built from day one with the professional market in view just as clearly as the outdoor market. Today our headlamps are used by power companies, fish farms, fishermen and tradespeople across Norway. That is not a coincidence.
The Lamp Must Work. Always.
For us it comes down to the same thing whether the customer is on a ski tour in Lyngen or 20 metres up a power pylon in a storm: the lamp must work. Always.
Around 600 lumens is enough to navigate safely down from a mountain. Around 2,000 lumens it starts to become riding light — enough to ski with confidence and control. If you want to truly open up and ride fast in the dark, you need 4,000–5,000 lumens and beyond. That insight has shaped the entire Storm series, from the Storm 700 to the Storm 9000. Not numbers for the sake of numbers — but light that actually answers what you need out in the field.
When some of the most demanding users in Tromsø — one of the world's hardest ski touring markets — choose Stormlight, it is because the lamp delivers what it promises, every single time.
Fast in the Dark.
3,150 lumens from 62 grams. No other lamp head at this output weighs less.
Three Things We're Especially Proud Of
A Different Category Entirely
The Storm 9000 delivers 78.7 real lumens per gram of lamp head. The nearest competitor sits at 40.8. That is not an incremental improvement — it is a different category entirely. We have worked with extreme focus to extract maximum performance from every gram, because we know how much it matters when the lamp is used for hours, at speed, in cold, under load.
Every Part. Ship It. Fix It.
Every part can be shipped to the customer. Every product is built so simply and logically that the customer can replace components themselves. This reduces electronic waste, eliminates unnecessary shipping and service costs, and sets a new standard for what sustainability actually looks like in practice.
Built for Arctic Cold.
Every headlamp goes through three full rounds of testing before it is packed and shipped. Beyond the bench, we have taken our products into the field in storm, wind and temperatures down to −25°C — the kind of conditions most brands only simulate. We have also invested in a dedicated freezer to push new designs to their limits before they reach the customer.
Stormlight is not just another headlamp brand. It is the result of many years of experience, hard lessons learned, and a clear idea of how better products should be made.
Built in Northern Norway. Born from experience. Developed for people who genuinely depend on good light.