My goal is to show how you could survive in this wasteland if you just know how. One of the simplest ways for finding out north and south when you are in the Northern Hemisphere is just use your watch and the sun. And all I need to do is pointing hour hand at the sun. So it’s 3 o’clock now. I point that at the sun. And then halfway between there and 12 o’clock is south.
As Iceland is in middle of the north Atlantic, its weather can change so quickly. And storms can roll in literally in minutes. When I landed, it was sunny. But now, I’m in the middle of a full-blownblizzard. One of the biggest things that’s up here on these glaciers in conditions like this is hypothermia. And yeah, it can set in very quickly. Just a drop of a couple of degrees in your core body temperature will bring it on. And you start shivering. You start to slow your words, lose your ability to think straight. And I’ve had it before. And it’s very frightening. Without shelter, you’d only survive on a matter of hours in blizzard conditions.
