Icelandic Mountain Guides instituted a new standards system for rating our guides skills a couple of years ago. Our guides are now rated every year by a New Zealand Mountain Guide in compliance with the New Zealand Mountain Guide Association's standards. This has opened up new job opportunities for our guides and two of them went off to New Zealand this winter to guide on Fox Glacier.
Of course they need to play as well and yesterday, the 26th of January, Atli Pálsson and James McEwan summited New Zealand's highest mountain, Mt. Cook (3,754 m. / 12,316 ft.).
Icelandic Mountain Guides wish Atli and James congratulations with the successful summit and look forward to seeing them when they return back to Iceland this summer to work on our glaciers.