This page is dedicated to all the courses that we offer.
We offer recreational courses and professional courses for those who would like to work in Iceland as a glacier guide.
Big part of guiding is sharing the passion for the natural environment of Glaciers to other people in a safe and professional way. Teaching is for us a big pleasure and duty to form knowledgeable and skilled guides that can share the same passion and preservation for this fragile environment that we are thankful to call it "our office".
As we take this profession very serious, even if the Icelandic standards are for now valid just in Iceland, we want to form very skilled and professional guides, so we offer a wide range of levels stating from the very basic Glacier guiding skills where the hard skills of rope work and some soft skills of glaciology are thought.
Hard ice 1 guide course or Jökla 1 is the first of three courses to become a fully certified glacier guide in Iceland under the standards of the Association of Icelandic Mountain Guides (AIMG).
After taking Jökla 1 and working for while for a company you might consider taking a preparation course, Workshop hard ice 2 & 3, before taking the next exam of Jökla 2 or 3. During that three day course you'll learn more advanced skills but others are simply repeated so that you will show up more confident to your next exam or next day at work.
In Iceland we offer also a Mountaineering 101 course where you gain the experience to travel on snow covered glaciers and reach few of the most iconic peaks of Iceland, like the famous volcano Eyjafjallajokull and the highest peak Hvannadalshnjúkur. In winter time we offer the introduction to Avalanche course over two days.
In East Greenland, we offer the Advanced Hard ice & Alpine course where we put our focus specially on the snow covered glacier and alpine techniques of roping up and the advanced hard skills of hard ice to be able to evaluate and find a safe way through any glacier we will go.
