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Melting Giants: Exploring and reflecting on Iceland’s disappearing glaciers
If you’re visiting or living in Iceland, you should go on a glacier hike – as long as you still can. Because within the next 20 years Vatnajökull’s outlet glaciers will all have melted. But is this entirely true? What fascinates people…
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Paddling Around The Arrowhead
Experiencing Iceland’s most picturesque mountain from a new angle Where are my Game of Thrones fans at? Do you remember the Arrowhead – one of the most iconic landmarks beyond the wall? Outside the confines of your television screen, that mountain is…
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Going Down: The Lava Tunnel and Its Deep Secrets
Let me take you on a journey back in time — about 5,000 years back, to be precise. We find ourselves in Iceland, not too far from where the modern day city of Reykjavik stands today. But there are no human inhabitants.…
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The Volcano Is Dead, Reykjanes Lives On
Who would have thought that the Reykjanes peninsula would become one of Iceland’s most visited places? Thousands of tourists streamed to the heart of the peninsula to witness practically back-to-back volcanic eruptions at Fagradalsfjall. The fascination was intense with the visitor-friendly, capital-adjacent…
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Snowmobiling in the Home of the White Walkers
Do you remember that famous saying by Ned Stark in Game of Thrones? “Winter is coming.” Well, I can tell you with certainty that winter is not coming — winter is here. Iceland is experiencing one of its coldest and snowiest winters…
