Ice Tour
Glacier Exploring in southeast Iceland

    Our lead guide Einar Rúnar Sigurðsson (born 1968) has been offering glacier hiking trips in southeast Iceland since spring 1994 so he is the oldest (in working years) mountain guide of Iceland. He will be your guide on this tour.

    The tour is offered in winter months only. We will be driving and then hiking through area that was until recently covered by glaciers and once on the glacier we will be exploring glacier forms and enjoy hiking through landscape that is best described being something between land and sea.​

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    For a private tour send us an email to info@fromcoasttomountains.is and let us know the day you want to do the tour and how many you are. There is space for 1-6 passengers in our Land Rover Defender, the 4wd we use to go to the glacier.​ We will confirm availability via email and make an payment link for you to have the departure confirmed.

    You can also let us know in that email if you would prefer to focus on explore more area of the glacier, with longer hike, or opt for a shorter glacier walk, but including ice climbing lessons in some steep glacier walls. This is done with full safety on top rope, and Einar can choose the climbing locations depending on your experience (or non experience).

    When the ice cave season is on in southeast Iceland (starts in October and ends in April) we can also focus on including an ice cave visit in our glacier exploring tour. Let us know your preference in the email, for example if you are booking a short ice cave tour with us or another company, it might be good to focus this tour more on glacier exploring, or glacier exploring with ice climbing lesson, or glacier exploring with an ice cave visit.​ The ice cave we would visit on this tour would be one of the popular ice caves of southeast Iceland so do expect some crowds there.

    On the other hand Einar also offers extra long Private Ice Cave Tour for 1-2 clients to explore ice caves much further up the glacier where very few people go.