HORNSTRANDIR

Inhabited since the beginning of the XXth century, swept by powerful winds from Greenland and beaten by the arctic ocean storms, Hornstrandir is the wildest region of Iceland. From the Drangajökull glacier to the high and deep fjords of the south coast, and towards the steep wall of the "Horn" to the slopes of the "Snowy mountain" : vertiginous cliffs and fjords, snow-capped cols and lush valleys, shatered ruins of a past life that nature took over... We walked through the whole Hornstrandir peninsula in spring, when the melted snow finally gives access to the highest passes blocked by the entrance glacier, as well as in famous "storm season", a raging period which annonces the end of summer and the beginning of the winter season tempests...

 

 
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