Environmental
Sustainability

We love to live beside and work within Vatnajökull National Park and we have taken it upon ourselves to provide the most environmentally-friendly glacier and volcano experiences possible.

Human power

Glacier and Volcano Expeditions are proud to be a human-powered only operation. Once the tour has begun at the roadside meeting location we completely exclude motorised transportation from all of our operations. Walking, hiking, climbing, kayaking and ski touring are the only means of transport that we operate within the Vatnajökull National Park boundary. This eliminates the risk of oil or chemical spill, no plants are squashed beneath tyres, no birds are disturbed by vehicles, no obnoxious noise pollution is created and no greenhouse gasses are produced.

Leave no trace

We lead our tours with a leave no trace policy which means that we do not adapt the landscape or leave any equipment or structures within Vatnajökull National Park. We believe that it is extremely important that the remaining wilderness areas that we have on this earth are taken care of and that modification of these areas is kept to an absolute minimum.

Tree planting

Glacier and Volcano Expeditions have implemented an active tree planting programme on our property to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are created from driving the equipment vehicle between home and the public glacier parking lot. As of June 2023 the Glacier and Volcano Expeditions team has planted approximately 6000 trees at our Southern Iceland property and we intend to plant approximately 10,000 in total over the next five years.