December 2011
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New Year's Eve in Iceland live webcam →
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New Year's Eve in Iceland
Today is the last day of the year in Iceland as everywhere else. New Year’s Eve is an amazing time in Reykjavík. Icelanders fire up around 6-700 tonnes of fireworks on New Year’s Eve. That’s over 2 kg of explosives per inhabitant. Unlike in many places, we don’t have any organized fireworks shows. This is all blown up by people like you and me. It is mostly a result of...
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Backpacker Magazine - "Iceland: Tested" →
Check out this article in Backpacker Magazine about backcountry skiing in Iceland with my good friends at Borea Adventures.
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Iceland
vanijah:
Iceland it runs wild and unrestricted.
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Hellbound Heart by Reykjavík!
Nice new song on Reykjavík!’s new album Locust Sounds. The flight from Reykjavík to Ísafjörður is quite an interesting one as you can see. In this video they come in from the north and have to make a sharp turn seconds before landing. You can also see another video of a takeoff from the Ísafjörður airport, aimed directly at the mountain. Oh, yeah and some are...
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Where Satan Goes Backpacking
Marcel Theroux from the Guardian drives and hikes to the top of Magni, the brand new mountain created by the volcanic eruption on Fimmvörðuháls in 2010. Up there in some classic Fimmvörðuháls weather he cooks some hotdogs on the cooling but still steaming lava. I’m actually not very happy with that last part. Please don’t go digging around in our new...
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