Hvannadalshnjukur from Sandfell, May 2020
near Fagurhólsmýri, Austurland (Ísland)
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Itinerary description
Hike took over 14hrs, most of the groups starts at 4am, we wanted to skip traffic and started at 3am, 6 other groups went to the top on the same day. There are few disadvantages of being first, one of them is that you need to make path in the snow, first person on the line had snowshoes which made it easier and less annoying, second more important are crevasses, our group felt into 6 of them, first 5 only with one leg and into 6th (006) our friend went down with both legs up to the hip but managed to get out by him self. Crevasses that are marked on map are covering with those viable on satellite map. Glacier starts from 1100m at the beginning you follow visible path and line up in place simply called "rock" (steinn)
Waypoints
001 crevasse
002 crevasse
003 crevasse
004 crevasse
005 crevasse
Rock, rope up
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