Iceland Divide

A solo bikepacking adventure across Iceland.

Music: Leiðin okkar allra by Hjàlmar

Filmed & Produced by Richard Sidey

Iceland Divide – The Adventure behind the Film

Heavy rain lashes against my hotel widow, distorting the impressive view of huge swells pummelling into Keflavik’s shoreline, the wind picking up each breaker and firing it far into the city streets. This is not a day to be outdoors in Iceland. Just hauling my bags and disintegrating bike box to the hotel was a mission, yet the thought of camping in this raises my anxiety levels. What makes me even more nervous is the weather warnings that are in place for the highlands right now. Winds of 250 kilometres per hour are currently ripping across the northern edge of Vatnajökull, Europe’s second largest icecap, right where I intend to be in a few days time—alone and unsupported on a bikepacking traverse of this wild, remote, and desolate sub-arctic island nation...

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