A passion for adventure
and nature

The owners of Glacier and Volcano Expeditions are Guðný and Rowan. When they are not guiding tours they love to spend their time exploring the world’s natural wildernesses on foot, crampons, skis, packraft, snowboard or on horseback.

Guðný and Rowan have both been guiding glaciers and their surrounding areas since 2014. An endless love of the outdoors, nature, photography, alpinism and sharing their experiences with others eventually led them to form their own guiding company, Glacier and Volcano Expeditions, in 2019.

Guðný and Rowan both grew up spending the majority of their free time in the outdoors and they are both highly experienced in water sports, mountain travel and rescue. They are both active members of the Öræfi ICESAR, Icelandic Search and Rescue.

Guðný

Vatnajökull National Park boundaries with the farm that Guðný was brought up on so she knows her way around here like the back of her hand. Since she was a small child Guðný has been exploring Öræfi by horse and by foot, forging a deep and intimate connection between her and this part of Iceland. Her resume is extensive as she has been guiding within Vatnajökull National Park since 2014. During this time she has guided glacier hikes including ice climbing, super-jeep ice cave tours, glacier lagoon kayak tours, glacier lagoon Zodiac boat tours and wildlife/puffin tours. Guðný is also a great story teller and she is always happy to share her experiences with her friendly guests. Guðný is an active volunteer in the Icelandic search and rescue team. She is an expert at keeping herself and others safe in the wild Icelandic environment!

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Rowan

Rowan was born and raised in New Zealand. He has been living in Iceland since April 2017 and now calls Iceland his home away from home. Rowan was also brought up in the mountains and has been going on small and large alpine expeditions since he was a small child. He began his glacier guiding career in 2013 on Franz Josef Glacier where he gained his New Zealand Mountain Guiding Association hard-ice guiding qualifications. Flying up onto the glacier in a helicopter was the daily commute to work and keeping clients safe on the mighty Franz Josef Glacier sparked a life-long passion for these incredible forces of nature. Snowboard mountaineering is Rowan's passion and the never-ending desire to explore new mountains has led him to chase this passion all over the world and to eventually end up living in Iceland. Rowan has enjoyed guiding the glaciers of Iceland for the past few years for many reasons, one of which is the amount of variety on offer here. “Every glacier is different. They each have their own personality and their own quirks. I always find it interesting to visit them to see how they have moved and changed. Iceland has many accessible glaciers which offer us a lot of different options for exploring and photography. It never gets old!” Rowan is an active photographer, specialising in alpine and glacier landscapes. He is always on the lookout for new and interesting features to photograph and he knows plenty of good compositions around Vatnajökull National Park. Come and see for yourself!

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