Two foreign cross country skiers contacted 112, the Icelandic emergency number, this morning and requested assistance to get down from Vatnajökull glacier, Iceland‘s largest ice cap, located in Southeast Iceland. Damaging winds are currently battering the south and west coast.
Read more: Our heroes are exhausted and at their breaking point
According to Mbl.is Search and Rescue units had picked up a third member of the group, who had fallen ill, on Tuesday and urged the two remaining skiers to return to town with them as the weather forecast for the next few days was appalling. The two men refused to return and turned a deaf ear when rescue members urged them to move to a lower altitude to avoid getting caught in the storm.
Read more: 5 things to know about the Skaftafell region in Southeast Iceland
This morning the two skiers contacted 112 again, requesting assistance after damaging winds had wrecked their tent and shattered much of their equipment.
Search and Rescue teams from East Iceland are currently making their way through the storm, back up the glacier, to retrieve the two skiers. The men are located near Skálafellsjökull outlet glacier, around 35 kilometres (22 miles) up Vatnajökull.
Two foreign cross country skiers contacted 112, the Icelandic emergency number, this morning and requested assistance to get down from Vatnajökull glacier, Iceland‘s largest ice cap, located in Southeast Iceland. Damaging winds are currently battering the south and west coast.
Read more: Our heroes are exhausted and at their breaking point
According to Mbl.is Search and Rescue units had picked up a third member of the group, who had fallen ill, on Tuesday and urged the two remaining skiers to return to town with them as the weather forecast for the next few days was appalling. The two men refused to return and turned a deaf ear when rescue members urged them to move to a lower altitude to avoid getting caught in the storm.
Read more: 5 things to know about the Skaftafell region in Southeast Iceland
This morning the two skiers contacted 112 again, requesting assistance after damaging winds had wrecked their tent and shattered much of their equipment.
Search and Rescue teams from East Iceland are currently making their way through the storm, back up the glacier, to retrieve the two skiers. The men are located near Skálafellsjökull outlet glacier, around 35 kilometres (22 miles) up Vatnajökull.
