MartijnKaspers's Travel Blogs

George Leigh Mallory said it best. The legendary British climber kept on trying to reach the top of Mount Everest in the early twenties, a time when achieving this feat was thought to be extremely difficult, if not impossible. People kept on asking him the same thing; why on earth did he keep trying to conquer the world’s highest mountain? I can imagine what the guy felt like when he answered them; ‘Because it’s there!’

After visiting Iceland and Greenland, the logical next destination in the northern Atlantic for me seemed to be these tiny but very beautiful islands.

For about a week in July 2002 I travelled through Iceland (my 2nd visit in fact) and also made a stopover in Greenland.