Welcome to the ICETROLL gallery. Click the images here to view and help you to get an understanding of what you are in for when you come on tour with us.
It is difficult to show on a photo what you see with your own eyes, especially
where ice is concerned.
If you think some of the photos are nice and you are worried you won't see
this on your tour, you are probably right. What you will experience will not
have been seen before, it will be unique, and if you leave dissapointed, we
will eat our old, sweat flavoured hat.
All photos: Jostedal, Norway © ICETROLL
INDEX - TOURS
Tunsbergdalsvatnet
Setting camp on
the two day tour on the side of Rundeggi (mountain). You can see the plateau
glacier stretching into the distance. Jostedalsbreen (ice-cap
or plateau glacier) is the largest area of ice on the mainland of Europe,
measuring 40km long by 2-5km wide.
Walking through a moulin on Tunsbergdalsbreen. No greater privilige are we afforded than being able to walk straight through a melt-water drainage hole! This tunnel, from 2008, was outstanding. Tunsbergdalsbreen, perhaps the easiest/best place to find active ice-caves anywhere in the world? Maybe...
Styggevatnet early July. Early in the season we have snow around the sides of the lake, and if you time it just right, snow all over the lake. We have 4-5 days to enjoy kayaking around (and over) the surface snow/ice before it melts away. Maybe the best days of the season?
Kayaking around icebergs to get to the calving Austdalsbreen Glacier. The melting of the ice in the summer air, the action of the water on the iceberg, which is unstable and often rolling, create amazing shapes, each one unique
This Frenchie feels on top of the world.
Atop Rundeggi, the mountain we have dinner on for the 2 Day Tour on Styggevatnet. We pitch our tents on a field of snow down on the side of the mountain and enjoy the sunset with a small drink and good conversation.
Early in the season we can kayak on Nigardsbrevatnet, this is a much shorter kayak (20-30mins) but we have the chance to walk on the Nigardsbreen Glacier for 3-4 hours. Notice the ice still on the water from winter. This piture was taken in May 2008
After kayaking over the lake, we stop under the glacier for lunch and a chance to catch the calving icebergs. When the guide finally drags you away from the front, we can then walk over the glacier for a unique view off the front of a calving glacier down to the lake we kayaked over
A rare shot of Greg at work. Andy looking on doesn't help his image of the boss who tells his guides to "do as I say, not as I do"
Filling a crack in the glacier with some ice from above helps us to be able to walk in the bottom of the crevasse/crack. Allowing access to amazing places!
War Paint shows the guide was Carlos. A walk toward the front of the glacier allows these guys to give Mum a REAL holiday smile for a change!
We have priced the trips to help families with more children, as we understand the issues travelling around Norway!
BBC film crew in 'not so much' action, while the poor presenter on the other hand is made to jump! 'TSecrets of Ice' documentary was filmed on Nigardsbreen early in summer, 2011.
Andy and Greg think they have finally spotted their lost client...
Early in 2011 we made a route on Nigardsbreen for a BBC Film crew. Starting under the glacier and working our way through a tunnel, pinnacles of ice and finally up onto the glacier
After Kayaking over Styggevatnet we come to Austdalsbreen Glacier. Here the glacier is calving, which is the same word used to describe an animal giving birth to young, just as the glacier is giving birth to an iceberg
One of our younger paddlers! If the weather is good, we are very happy to take the younger children on tour. As you can imagine from this picture, Mum or Dad will be doing most of the kayaking, while the boss takes it easy in the front seat. The kayaks are extremely stable, so if you are feeling active, this could be your young ones best day of their Norwegian holiday
Austdalsbreen is the glacier we kayak to over Styggevatnet. Here, the glacier was almost completely out of the lake in 2006, showing the total thickness of the front, approximately 45m. On a usual season we can see 20-25m of the glacier front, only half of the ice showing above the water.
Bad habits...The children rule the Half Day trips, what they want - happens.
Moulin (icecaves) are the drainage holes for the meltwater. As well as most beautiful features on a glacier, potentially they are also the most hazardous . The smooth, wet walls give no friction, and they can drop through a glacier to its base (possibly 150m+). Well worth staying away from the vertical ones!
Statkraft warning found
around sides of Styggevatnet: