Lighting a cigarette Iceland style
Forgot your lighter? Use a glowing red rock of molten lava from an erupting volcano.
Picture taken by Bergur at the 2010 eruption on Fimmvörðuháls.
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 mountain. If you really must cook hotdogs on the volcano, there are plenty of red glowing cracks you can do that in.
Fimmvörðuháls waterfalls
This is one of many small waterfalls just above the famous Skógafoss waterfall. A loosely unmarked trail which starts by Skógafoss winds its way up along the river, up onto the Fimmvörðuháls col and down into the Þórsmörk valley.
Photo by Pas le Matin.
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Always good weather in Iceland. Stay safe.
I have no idea who this is, standing by the Fimmvörðuháls eruption, but it does remind me of a great story from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption.
There are these two old brothers that live alone on a farm not far from the volcano. They had been forced to evacuate, unwillingly to Hvolsvöllur. However as the eruption stabilized they were allowed to return to the farm. A young TV reporter interviewed the brothers. She spoke with them as if they were a bit naive, something the brothers picked up on. When she asked “Isn’t it nice to be back and be able to stay with the animals?” one of them responded fussily ”With the animals? We sleep inside, they sleep outside.”
They also made it quite clear that they were not happy with having been forced to evacuate. “Our family has always lived here and there has never been a flood because of the volcano.” They were also not at all surprised that the volcano was erupting. They could see it from the weather in the weeks before that en eruption was underway.
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The beautiful eruption on Fimmvörðuháls, the small eruption that preceeded the major eruption on Eyjafjallajökull. Photo by James Appleton.
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The eruption on Fimmvörðuháls last year. As you can see in this picture for us this is a perfect opportunity for a family trip up into the mountains. Photo by Kiddi Kristjáns
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The Fimmvörðuháls eruption last year by Skarphéðinn Þráinsson. Some went a little bit closer than others.
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Awesome picture of the recent eruption on Fimmvörðuháls by Tony Prower.
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The eruption on Fimmvörðuháls in Iceland spring 2010
Land of fire and ice.
The eruption on Fimmvörðuháls in Iceland in the spring of 2010.
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I can not describe the sound of this eruption properly. It is a metallic beating sound as if Þór (Thor), the Thunder God is down in the crater malling his sword. To give you a scale of this picture, the lava is probably shooting about 1-200 meters up into the air. At its highest it went around 400 meters high. The photographer is probably standing around 2-400 meters away.
Fimmvörðuháls eruption, Iceland. Fredrik Holm.
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Another picture of the recent eruption. This is the earlier one that caused little trouble but was very accessible and beautiful to look at. Every Icelander that was fit for the hike up there went. These beautiful lavafalls were what most wanted to see.
Check out some awesome pictures of the eruption on Fredrikholms flickr.
