March
20
/ 2017
Positioned on a desert upland in the highlands of Iceland, the Ancient Kjolur Trail gives a new meaning to the word “desolation.” This lengthy, winding thoroughfare, that leads visitors across an epic glacial shortcut written about in the Sagas, was forgotten for over a century before taking the lives of some trekkers. The “Ghosts” of the Kjolur Route In the 9th century, Scandinavians – mainly Norwegians – began to colonize Iceland, an island in the North Atlantic where no one had yet settled in large numbers. Ever since, there has been a “highway” running through the Kjolur route on the Icelandic highlands, which runs from the northern part of Iceland to the south. Historically, people would use these trails as
