12 Apr 2020Last month, three experienced mountaineers took, equipped with skis and kites, took off from Hrauneyjar, in the central highlands, and headed northeast toward Þórshöfn in Northeast Iceland.
22 Jan 2020If you plan to drive in the central highlands in Iceland this winter, make sure you know of a hidden danger on the way, which could be life-threatening.
11 Jun 2018Slowly but surely, Iceland's mountain roads are opening up after being snowed up for winter. Now Landmannalaugar are accesible by road as well as the roads by Möðrudalsöræfi and to the Kerlingarfjöll mountains.
6 Apr 2018The Icelandic highlands are one of the most unpopulated areas of Europe. Covering some 400 - 500 square kilometres they offer black deserts, mountains, canyons and glaciers.
30 Jan 2018"This could become our greatest pride and greatest contribution to nature conservation so far in history," says Minister for the Environment Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson.