Chasing Fire and Ice: Exploring Iceland’s Volcanoes and Glaciers

Glacier hikers in helmets adjust crampons and gear on an icy ridge.

Halló, traveler! I’m Otto the Viking, and today we’re going to chase the two mighty forces that shaped my homeland—fire and ice. Nowhere else on Earth do these opposites live side by side so dramatically. Here in Iceland, volcanoes breathe beneath glaciers, lava flows meet frozen rivers, and the land still forges itself before our […]