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Landmannlaugar Trek Part 2

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So here’s part two to our 115km long trek which included our recent climb of Hrutfjallstindar. We loved this part of the track with it’s ever changing contrasts between the fire and ice covered landscape. Let the pictures and video tell the story and our words can never be enough.

Cheers Team ZV

 

Type Two Fun

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Four days and 115km trek from the Central volcanic highlands of Iceland to the Wild West Coast via the Landmannalaugar Track and Fimmvorouhals Pass. We condensed a normally 6 day hike into 4 days. This meant long days, but the trails were all ours as we were up and gone before anyone else. The reference …

Bagged The Summit

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For our first big challenge in Iceland we took on the famous “Rams Peak”, in Icelandic it’s impossible to spell or pronounce so let’s just stick to “Rams”. It was a huge 25km return climb over two days with our base camp set up just below the snow line above a glacial waterfall. The climb …

Iceland

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Team Zero Vanilla are preparing to jump on the plane that takes us to the adventure wonderland of Iceland. If you haven’t been on our blog for a while, Welcome Back! If you’ve been following us over the past few years you would have seen us trek to Everest Base Camp, Climb Mt Rainer USA, …

Merry Friggin’ Christmas!

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Merry Friggin’ Christmas! Two More Sleeps! Zero Vanilla wish you all an awesome Christmas and a New Year full of adventure. Thanks to everyone who’s been part of our local Micro Adventures and for all your support on our bigger expeditions through the year. We hope we get to see more of you this coming year …

The Mt Barney Climb

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The climb with Michael Groom In part one of the Mt Barney climb I introduced you to Michael Groom and Pete Gash, we managed to take a few photos while on the climb but to be honest we were too busy hanging on and photos weren’t really the priority. As you can see from the …

The Next Challenge

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The Stampede! Well we have our new short-term challenge booked and paid for, a combination of “The Rockstars” and “The Warthogs” have combined to create a team for the upcoming Brisbane Stampede and we are to call ourselves “The Rockhogs”. The event is on the 8th of September so not much time for training but we will all …