Above the Clouds

'Isn't it a breathtaking view,' I thought. Yes, surely it is. I was so excited to go to Iceland, since it's been over a month.

I barely came back from my incredible journey—a "Transmongolian" trip, in October 2017. Got the most boring job you could imagine for one who is travel addict—phone customer service! Hours in the office, surrounded by four walls and no fresh air, when my friend—who's working as a glacier guide, told me that they need guides, it took me five seconds to decide if to go or not. A huge "YES" after the Skype interview with the manager of "Arctic Adventures," was resounding in my head since then.

While at work, while time was dragging on, my thoughts were somewhere around of what to pack, will I be good enough as a guide? How is Iceland? Top things I'll do there; like diving between two continents or, whale watching? And stuff like that.

It took only one hour or two for me to fall in love with Iceland. Everything in this teeny tiny country was perfect. From simple buying a bus ticket through the app (saving trees man!), through great gastronomy, easy going culture to amazing road trips. The only "buts" were that, you had to be a millionaire to shop in Iceland and the tricky weather. As for the last one, I felt it on my own skin during the first days of training. The first four days in Skaftafell were all about to get along with the glacier, learn some new tricks like: basic rescue, ice climbing or walking on the ice with crampons. This last one is really funny. If you never did that before (and I haven't), you'll basically feel like you walk with a big diaper. The weather, apart of being tricky, wasn't as I imagined. I thought it's gonna be max, minus ten degrees and beautiful snow. Instead of that, temperature was over the zero and it was raining all the time. Plus massive wind which was literally blowing you off the glacier. Yes, just like you read. We had to train ten hours per day (around 12-13 hours if you count in breakfast and driving to the "office" and back), in that weather and with a big smile! We were faces of the best glacier guides in Iceland. Cause imagine that you're the client, who would like to have a grumpy guide? Exactly!