Glacier tours and caving: walk on the wild side!

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The Icelandic landscape is peppered with breathtakingly beautiful glaciers and caves. The largest glacier, Vatnajökull, is one of Europe’s largest and covers 8% of the entire country country.

Various companies in Iceland offer tours and recreational activities for visitors to enjoy the very best the country – and its natural wonders – have to offer.

See: Iceland Monitor’s directory of glacier tours

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One such company is Summit Adventure Guides , based in the Snæfellsjökull National Park in West Iceland. They offer a range of mountain activities around the famous Snæfellsjökull glacier, made famous in the Jules Verne novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth .

MORE: Iceland adventures: Caving trips

As well as skiing, mountaineering, Northern Lights and ‘glamping’ tours, Summit Adventure Guides specialise in glacier walking and hiking tours and caving activities at the nearby Vatnshellir caves.

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Popular at this time of year is the company’s Midnight Sun Summit Tour , which takes the intrepid explorer up to a height of 1,000 m by snowcat, followed by a hike up the remaining 400 m (of altitude) in the midnight sun up to the summit of Snæfellsjökull glacier.

If ice is not your thing, Summit’s Vatnshellir cave tour is a 45-minute adventure into the entrails of an 8,000-year-old lava tube created by a volcanic eruption from a nearby crater.

Photo: Summit Adventure Guides

See: Iceland Monitor’s directory of caving tours

Summit’s basic caving tour costs ISK 3.250 (approx. €24), while glacier hikes start from ISK 10,900 (approx. €78). Private tours on some of the company’s higher-end options start at ISK 89,000 (approx. €640).

Many Summit products are targeted towards small-group experiences and they welcome enquiries for customised tours.

Photo: Summit Adventure Guides

Photo: Summit Adventure Guides

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