Icelandic Mountain Guides

Stórhöfði, 33110, Reykjaví­k, IS
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4.50
Based on 345 Reviews

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About Icelandic Mountain Guides

Icelandic Mountain Guides is a leading Iceland tour operator with over two decades of experience servicing clients from all over the world. Our tour company offers a great selection of guided adventure tours in Iceland and Greenland, including hiking, glacier tours, backpacking, trekking, mountain climbing, ice climbing, cross country skiing and more. We have a tour for people of all levels. Over the years, we have learned a thing or two about accommodating and adapting to different needs, preferences, cultures and languages. If you or your travel group is looking for a specialist in the wilderness of Iceland or Greenland, one that emphasizes cooperation, environmental sustainability and safety then, Icelandic Mountain Guides is the tour operator for your next Iceland vacation. IMG operates from their company headquarters in Reykjavik year-round, and from their base camp located in the beautiful Skaftafell National Park situated in the South-east part of the country at the foot of the Vatnajokull Glacier, from May – September. All tours conducted in English. Special arrangements for other languages can be made with advanced notice.

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Pochen Lin
Taiwan | 04 February 2015

very great view while walking in glacier and very good tour guide.

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Shahnaz
United Kingdom | 21 January 2015

We did the Glacier Walk with Northern Lights tour. We started off with visiting a waterfall , followed by a Glacier Walk which was really exhilarating. This was the first time we had been on a Glacier and felt we were in very good hands. The scenery is amazing. After this we had dinner which was lovely and we were not lucky enough to see the Northern Lights due to poor weather. However we did visit another waterfall and climbed behind it which was something quite special. Our disappointment at not seeing the Northern Lights was overcome by a very enjoyable special day.

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Elaine
United Kingdom | 21 January 2015

The experience was fantastic, our guide was brilliant very knowledgeable and also fun and approachable. We were in a group of 6 and it was just the right size, really enabling us to get the most out the trip. I'd highly recommend it to anyone!

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Alison Jones
United Kingdom | 17 January 2015

great staff great trip wonderful landscape- experience to remember

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A couple
Netherlands | 14 January 2015

A wonderful trip with a friendly, knowledgeable guide with a lot of "saga's" and his reliable landrover with which he takes us without any problems throughout the country. Shows us all the best spots during the day and surprising resting places for the night. Serves simple but delicious dinners. This is the best way to enjoy Iceland. If you have the money to spend on this trip, don't hesitate, it's worth every penny of it.

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Stephen and
United States | 11 January 2015

We took a glacier walk/aurora tour with IMG in March 2014. While the clouds foiled our aurora hopes, it was a phenomenal tour, including a couple hours exploring the glacier and a traditional dinner. Our guides were incredibly knowledgable about history, geology, and any other subject pertinent to a visit to Iceland. By far, this was the highlight of our visit!

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Jan Bilden
United States | 11 January 2015

The mountains and sea shore of eastern Iceland were awesome, the skills of our guide Helene in regards to hiking and knitting were top notch, the food, new friends, and skills were excellent. This trip was a wonderful blend of physical challenge, learning, and pleasure.

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Deep Karumanchi
United States | 10 January 2015

This is a must do trip! And Icelandic mountain guides are very professional and trained. The glacier hikes was about 3-4hr. I would recommend anyone visiting to go for this.

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Pierregy
Canada | 10 January 2015

We did the 4 hour glacier tour. We were 4 and there were 8 others in our tour. The guide we had was wonderful and competent. She explained what we would be doing, ensured that we had the correct fitting safety gear and wore it properly, taught us how to put on crampons and spent about 1/2 an hour getting us to practice on the glacier (uphill, downhill, across etc.) then we toured the glacier, she showed us how to tie in and lastly was gentle when reminding us that we were drifting off the safe path. The equipment was well maintained and the drive to the foot of the glacier was comfortable. Overall it was an excellent experience that led us to want more and to keep with this company.

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David Weaver
United Kingdom | 09 January 2015

Thoroughly enjoyed my two hour walk on the glacier. My guide was very knowledgeable in relation to the location and all aspects of safety. She was enthusiastic and made my walk very pleasurable and helped to create lifelong memories. She also instigated great opportunities for the taking of personal action photos.

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United Kingdom | 09 January 2015

Our tour guide was Anna Stina and her rating lies somewhere between incompetent and unintentionally dangerous. If there was an emergency, which thankfully there was not, I am not convinced Anna had the necessary skills to handle the situation. I give 2 stars only because she was not rude. Anna might be an outdoors-woman (one who is comfortable outdoors) but that does not make her a guide. Her time management skills were terrible. Her ability to be speak English was passable at best; it was best to use short sentences and avoid anything complex. Her ability to guide is atrocious - she got lost on several occasions and led us in circles while attempting to rely on a GPS. When we weren't lost she could be seen on several occasions making personal phone calls (when there was cell coverage). Her cooking was edible although pan-fry and deep fry mean the same thing to her and most everything is pan fried. To her credit, the one and perhaps only thing, is her utter and unshakable love of Iceland. Based on this experience I would extremely reluctant to ever use this company again. The value for money and competence of their guides is wholly unacceptable.

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Frank Metzstein
United Kingdom | 09 January 2015

Great day exploring some of Iceland's natural phenomenon. Very friendly and enthusiastic guide / driver considering he had probably done it many times before . Looking forward to a return visit and another adventure.

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Joachim
Germany | 08 January 2015

Competent guide with valuable background informations

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Bob Wawrzeniak
United States | 08 January 2015

We had a knowledgeable guide Anna who gave interesting explanations for what shapes the glacier, it's movements, dangers and history.

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FA LIN
Spain | 08 January 2015

We have a very good guide, and we talk a lot about Iceland and travel. The celandic Mountain Walking Tour is definitely a fantastic experiment, and make us learn a lot about the earth and nature. Thank for our guide! One day I'll come back to Iceland again!

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Kelly
United States | 08 January 2015

It's not often you can walk on a glacier; this is the place to definitely do it. Our guide, Stefan, was knowledgeable and entertaining. As we walked the glacier he shared stories of Icelandic history and fun stories. He was always cautious about our safety as my group included children. I highly recommend Icelandic Mountain Guides.

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Gio da
United States | 07 January 2015

80 km six day hike with several friends from High school, we had one guide, and one driver who drove our camping equipment from camp to camp as we hiked the ejafjallajjokull glacier/volcano. We had an unforgettable journey, with great thanks to our guide: very knowledgeable, experienced, catered to everyones needs (could walk slow or fast depending on how the group felt... we ended up finishing the hike in four days, as the guide was flexible), funny, friendly, and we felt very comfortable and safe with him.

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Joyce Chen
Taiwan | 07 January 2015

The staff are professional and nice. I enjoyed the journey.

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Linda
Canada | 07 January 2015

The guide was great, and so was the experience! Only problem was that we were missed at our hotel for the pick up to the Glacier walk. If I would not have contacted the company, we would have been left behind. The bus was forced to wait for us until we could connect with them. There was also a problem with the bus breaking down on the way back from the walk, which caused a delay, I would have been very concerned if I would have had to catch a flight.

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Gideon Tan
Singapore | 07 January 2015

Our guide spoke good English, he was friendly, and professional. He explained the dangers and techniques of hiking on ice rather thoroughly. He was also in good physical condition and mentally alert, which is very important. He not only has to take care of himself but also for the 2 of us.

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