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I was part of an ICE-SAR response to an incident on Falljökull last Wednesday. As always when something happens in a professional guiding context, it is worth to summarize observations and look for lessons to be learned. What was missed, or went wrong, for this accident to occur? Where can the guide community improve to […]
I’ve just completed the annual review of my Safety Plan and uploaded a new, revised version. In addition to some minor changes (wording clarified, spelling errors), I have added sections on using a shared, site-specific risk assessment platform where available, and a safety plan module for tours leading over floating ice covers. The shared, site-specific […]
Due to additional responsibilities with the Vatnajökull National Park – I have been tasked with helping to assess and monitor the ice caves in the nearby glaciers – my calendar is now fully booked for October and November.
As a consequence of the accident in late August, I decided to include an explicit section on overhead hazards in my safety plan. As always, it is public and you can check it out here (the entry in the menu above will always refer to the most current version; this one is a permanent link […]
As we are coming into September, it is still a bit too early to talk specifically about which ice caves will be accessible – and worth visiting – next winter. The glacier will continue to change in significant ways over the next weeks and may open up new opportunities or remove others in the progress. […]
I have received an incredible amount of very positive feedback about my recent essay, and it motivated me to address some of the questions that came up both in direct response to it and in other discussions. This article is intended primarily for visitors who are concerned about various planned activities, and deals specifically with […]
The tragic collapse of an ice cave left us mourning the loss of a life, a family torn apart and many lives irrevocably changed. I have just returned from two days on the site of the incident, and staring at the computer screen I keep asking myself the same question again and again: How on […]
I guess by now everybody who was planning to go through the little homework assignment has done so by now… Each of the problems I posted was based on a situation I have encountered, either on my own tours. Estimating the accurate location of an unknown point by using bearings from / to other, known […]
It was time for my annual review of our safety plan — no major changes, but it is good to go through everything that we encountered over the past year and see if anything could be done to improve the situation. Maybe the biggest change that has come from this was the observation that many […]
Alright today is the next training day in my schedule! This one is work friendly since everybody can just do it at home in their own time. It is primarily a precursor to next month, where we’ll put these things out into the field… the idea about this episode is that some aspects of working […]
