Here, we present SledgeReport, a mobile solar powered DNA sequencing lab packed down into the back of a sledge. In April 2019 this sledge-lab was pulled across Europe’s largest ice cap by ski in search of the wildest microbes from the wildest places. Our world is teeming with microbes. Our understanding of these microbes shapes the way we interact with them and how they interact with us. Despite their increasingly understood role in our rapidly changing climate, microbes in the most remote polar corners on this earth remain almost entirely unknown to us. What if we could study these microbes exactly where they live and thrive.