We take a glacier hike and turn up the volume. After a short walk onto Sólheimajökull, your guide sets up top-ropes on a wall of ice and teaches you the basics: how to plant an axe so it holds, how to trust your front points, how to rest. Then you climb — as many times as your arms allow, usually five or six routes, each a bit steeper.
No previous climbing needed. You need a bit of nerve and arms that work, that's all. If you've been bouldering at home, you'll be grinning.
Sólheimajökull car park · 10:00
Meet us at the car park, or add pick-up from Reykjavík at checkout.
A little, in the good way. You're always on a top-rope held by the guide, so falls are a few centimetres.
Both work. Winter ice is harder and bluer; summer ice is softer and easier to climb. Either way, it's 0 °C on the ice.
44.900 krHard12–15 hIceland's highest point. 2,110 m. One very long, very good day.
12.900 krEasy+3 h (2 h on ice)Walk on a living glacier — crevasses, moulins, and ice older than your grandparents.
