Founded 1990
Private Ice Cave Tour
Icecaving with Einar Rúnar Sigurðsson
Iceland's first mountain guide and ice cave guide.
When is our Ice Cave Season 2025-6?
Possibly from October to April but weather has to cooperate in the start and end of that season
What is included:
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Transport in a well equipped Land Rover Defender super jeep up to the glacier's edge
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Safety gear, helmet with head lamp, crampons, ice axe, harness.
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Guided drive and walk in Vatnajökull National Park
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Plenty of time for photography
How long is the tour?
Around 5-6 hours. The location varies between years so each winter this varies.
How difficult is the walk?
You have to have good fitness, and be able to walk many km on this tour, and bring good outdoor clothings, and backpack with your lunch and gear.
Ice Cave Tour With a Local Mountain Guide
Einar Rúnar Sigurðsson, lead guide of Öræfaferðir - From Coast To Mountains was the first mountain guide in Iceland to offer daily ice cave tours, starting in winter 2006-7. He is also the country's oldest mountain guide in working years to offer glacier and climbing and ski mountaineering tours in Iceland, since he started his company in spring 1994. Einar has AIMG (ASSOCIATION OF ICELANDIC MOUNTAIN GUIDES) degree of Hard Ice 3 and Ice Cave Guide. (He is actually most often the teacher of Ice Cave Guide for AIMG).
Einar (born 1968) used to do his ice cave tours for many years with serious photographers in mind, but in later years there are 30 companies offering tours into the accessible ice caves closer to the road.
So, Einar offers this solution of serious ice cave photography. We hike much further up the valley to ice caves that are too far away for the big crowds.
The Private Ice Cave Tour can take the whole day, and the price is 200.000 ISK for one person and 120.000 ISK per person if there are two persons. The reason there is max 2 people is that short roping is often needed on those routes in the glacier, and there are max 2 client per guide while short roping. This version is an amazing exploring trip for fit outdoor person, and photography heaven for a sportive serious photographer or two.
