Dutch couple Mia and Fred Flipse are hoping to get in contact with a group of Canadian hikers who rescued them off the side of Krafla caldera in north Iceland on 21 June. The couple contacted Canadian newspaper the Star in hopes of finding their rescuers.
According to the Star, the couple were 45 minutes into a climb up Leirhnjúkur, located in the Mývatn area in north Iceland, when Mia stumbled and fractured her ankle in three places.
“I was not able to make the walk down. The ankle was dislocated and very painful,” Mia, 62 and a registered nurse, explained. The couple had begun to panic when a party of ten arrived at the scene. The group, who said they were from Toronto, Canada, carried Mia down the mountain, “first on their shoulders, then on a found piece of plastic tarp and finally on a wooden pallet they discovered along the trail”.
“We are so grateful. We just feel ashamed that we don’t know their names to thank them in person. We were so moved that there are such good people in the world,” Mia told the Star.
Dutch couple Mia and Fred Flipse are hoping to get in contact with a group of Canadian hikers who rescued them off the side of Krafla caldera in north Iceland on 21 June. The couple contacted Canadian newspaper the Star in hopes of finding their rescuers.
According to the Star, the couple were 45 minutes into a climb up Leirhnjúkur, located in the Mývatn area in north Iceland, when Mia stumbled and fractured her ankle in three places.
“I was not able to make the walk down. The ankle was dislocated and very painful,” Mia, 62 and a registered nurse, explained. The couple had begun to panic when a party of ten arrived at the scene. The group, who said they were from Toronto, Canada, carried Mia down the mountain, “first on their shoulders, then on a found piece of plastic tarp and finally on a wooden pallet they discovered along the trail”.
“We are so grateful. We just feel ashamed that we don’t know their names to thank them in person. We were so moved that there are such good people in the world,” Mia told the Star.
