We are delighted to announce that our images accompanying a story about Iceland has been published in the May issue of the National Geographic Magazine.

Excerpt from the article: ”It was five days before Christmas, and in the hut on the north flank of Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that grounded airplanes all over Europe in 2010, Sigurður Reynir Gíslason was dishing up fish soup and pickled herring. Lunch felt like a gift. The volcano was quiet, its glacier muffled in clouds, but we’d forded icy river channels to get here, and twice Siggi’s SUV had got stuck. Outside the warm hut, gnarly birch trees formed a spiderweb of branches against the white hillside. “This is what it looked like when the Vikings arrived,” said Guðrún, Siggi’s sister. As we arrived, a ptarmigan fluttered out of the snow.

Guðrún is a geographer, Siggi a geochemist at the university in Reykjavík. They were telling me the story of Iceland’s landscape, and if you counted the smoked lamb, all four main actors were present... Humans and their beasts, struggling to survive in a land of volcanoes and glaciers, have degraded it to an astonishing degree.

If you don’t know that story, you see the astonishing beauty that remains.” (Rob Kunzig)

You can read the whole article here: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/05/iceland/kunzig-text
©Orsolya and Erlend Haarberg/National Geographic
“The volcano Eyjafjallajökull, in Iceland, just before dawn on April 23, 2010: The worst is over. Lava flows freely. Earlier, as it punched through the ice cap, it triggered a meltwater flood that destroyed roads and farms, and a steam explosion that hurled ash into the stratosphere, stopping air traffic for a week.”
©Orsolya and Erlend Haarberg/National Geographic
“A shifting stream drops bog iron onto volcanic sand near Háfur, on the south coast.”
©Orsolya and Erlend Haarberg/National Geographic
“A glacial torrent pours over a 40-foot-high ledge at Gođafoss, "waterfall of the gods." After the Icelandic assembly adopted Christianity in 1000, its leader threw his pagan idols into the falls. The mossy island, notes geographer Guđrún Gísladóttir, "is protected from sheep.""

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