The Weirdest Mountain in Iceland - Námafjall

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  • Опубліковано 3 лют 2025

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  • @LemonLadyRecords
    @LemonLadyRecords 2 роки тому +1

    Missing your calm and steady voice in all the excitement! Even droneage zoomed into new craters around vents, or egde of flows, extent of east flow with zoom. Everyone just does grand overviews. Nice but more going on. Tks for your beautiful work!

  • @annwatchman6885
    @annwatchman6885 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks so much, Gylfi. Strange, yet beautiful landscape, well worth a visit, while in amazing Iceland. 💖

  • @Sfinxinn
    @Sfinxinn Рік тому +4

    We are very grateful to you for the time you devoted to filming, editing and broadcasting this magnificent video which brings back such beautiful memories.

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  Рік тому +2

      Thanks a ton :) it's inspiring for me to hear this :)

  • @anitamitchell3452
    @anitamitchell3452 2 роки тому +16

    Stunning colors. Iceland is a remarkable place for sure. Thank you for keeping us entertained. It's good to see you are well.

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому +6

      Thanks for watching👍 Volcano update tomorrow with new footage

  • @yvonnevandermeer8471
    @yvonnevandermeer8471 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for this video. Nice to see it from above. I was there on June 26 ‘22 with my photography trip. It was very nice to see.
    Greetings from the Netherlands.

  • @vronw5782
    @vronw5782 2 роки тому +9

    It's amazing. I am so lucky to have people like you and the technology to share these incredible scenes. ❤

  • @airmakay1961
    @airmakay1961 2 роки тому +3

    Top-notch camera work and production (as usual). Interesting mountain!

  • @bartjes2509
    @bartjes2509 2 роки тому +3

    This was one of our first sites we visited after disembarking the Norröna ferry from Denmark in 2017, our first trip to Iceland. It blew our minds but the strong rotten egg smell put us back on earth ;-)

  • @sharon94503
    @sharon94503 2 роки тому +1

    Stunning. Beautiful drone work and might I add...the perfect soundtrack.

  • @dagmarkunzel5406
    @dagmarkunzel5406 2 роки тому +6

    Thanks for the beautiful video. The landscape and the music go so well together. Have a great weekend everyone.

  • @DisVietVetUSA
    @DisVietVetUSA 2 роки тому +7

    Beautiful volcanic fumeral mountaun, such contrasts and colors, a valuable place to explore amd see the raw gealogy of the area tank you for sharing Gilfi!

  • @wendyhood1006
    @wendyhood1006 2 роки тому +6

    Just wow definitely on my bucket list your country just keeps on surprising me the colors and landscape’s 🥰

  • @thebadterrorists5323
    @thebadterrorists5323 2 роки тому +10

    Don't know about weird, smelliest more like. The Myvatn area is outstanding .

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому +2

      Yes it's my favourite part of the plate boundaries 😃

    • @jangoosen5407
      @jangoosen5407 2 роки тому +1

      Agree - not weird, but interesting and a strong contrast with the surrounding countryside. Agree - smelliest. Also the place where the midges try to eat you alive 😁

    • @stp182314343
      @stp182314343 2 роки тому +1

      The my (little fly’s) on the lake are the worst 👎

  • @lozunicorn
    @lozunicorn 2 роки тому +3

    Such beauty caused by immeasurable power! A lot of the shapes remind me of my Scottish Highlands which were also formed by volcanoes millenia ago. My thanks and good wishes as always 🦄

  • @ufx808
    @ufx808 2 роки тому +2

    I was completely blown away, when I visited this geothermal area, having never seen anything like this before. What a place!

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому

      Yes this is something different :) and the smell, oh man...

  • @PeteDarrell1972
    @PeteDarrell1972 2 роки тому +2

    Also known as 'Hells Gate', just a little to east from the 'Baby Blue Lagoon' (good to be seen in the middle at 2:36) where the street is always hot.
    I loved it up there, even with lots of snow in April5 years ago.
    Thanks again Gylfi! I'm long time gone, but you keep me there... ;-)

  • @NonnoNao
    @NonnoNao 2 роки тому +18

    My hiking boots were a complete mess after walking trough this beautiful geothermal area.
    But it was totally worth the quick stop, I've never seen before boiling mud ponds and sulfur emitting chimneys. I also took a small pebble covered in sulfur as souvenir, I really hope that elves forgive me

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому +3

      I'm sure they will :) and thanks for visiting

    • @Tugela60
      @Tugela60 2 роки тому +2

      The gods are less forgiving though. You will be cursed for three generations until the stolen stone is returned to where it belongs.

    • @NonnoNao
      @NonnoNao 2 роки тому +1

      @@Tugela60 Well, at least I'm not planning on having child any time soon

    • @c.kainoabugado7935
      @c.kainoabugado7935 2 роки тому +1

      Btw the gods in Hawaii not forgiving either, many tourists send us the lava rocks they took home after experiencing 'bad luck'. And they send those rocks to anybody with a note telling whoever opens their suspicious package to return it/them and a description of where they got it😳. Post office gets some, the university, Hawaiian agencies/organizations, institute for astronomy. Js

  • @gladysseaman4346
    @gladysseaman4346 2 роки тому +1

    Stunning! Thank you.

  • @nuffsenuff2890
    @nuffsenuff2890 2 роки тому +1

    It looks like a monstrous sea creature that's been zapped and then beautifully photographed. Thank you for showing it to us.

  • @TSE4824
    @TSE4824 2 роки тому +1

    Beautiful and wonderful work, Thank you Sir

  • @ChristophersMum
    @ChristophersMum 2 роки тому

    Thank you Gylfi...That mountain is beautiful...weird if it is the only one...and the music fits it well...
    greetings from Scotland😁

  • @trojanpony
    @trojanpony 2 роки тому +4

    I’ll never forget the smell of that place. Like a porta-potty on a hot summer day…

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому +2

      I can handle the small since I grew up neat traditional Icelandic food but its the flies there, ufff. shot this sitting in my car with the windows closed

    • @Tugela60
      @Tugela60 2 роки тому

      Well, they need to build some proper toilets for the tourists then, instead of just going where they stand.

  • @18robsmith
    @18robsmith 2 роки тому +6

    A crazy visual mix of the Algerian desert and Jellystone (sorry Yellowstone) Park. Only in Iceland could such a mix exist

  • @DeltadronesBr
    @DeltadronesBr 2 роки тому +1

    I spent 3 hours in this place, on the top hill! Wonderful view and peaceful!

  • @abs0lutelyn0t
    @abs0lutelyn0t 2 роки тому

    I recognise it. love the myvatn area. beautiful to see from above. thank you!

  • @Jules-bf2wu
    @Jules-bf2wu 4 дні тому +1

    Fantastical views!!!💚🤎 I find myself mesmerized by these shots. Thanks!❤

  • @tardigrade9493
    @tardigrade9493 2 роки тому

    Absolutely incredible drone video, thank you.

  • @bbbb6066
    @bbbb6066 2 роки тому

    Beautiful drone video. I have climbed Namafjall many times. The whole area is great. A short distance is Dettifoss, selfoss, Krafla, Godafoss, Aldeyjrfoss. Lake Myvatn and more. I will spend days in this area and not get enough. I will be in this area next week. I hope the weather is good enough for some drone footage of the volcano. Today we went to the Hafrahvammar canyon park and did a hike along the canyon. Great day in Iceland. Hope all is well with you. Take care and enjoy. Linda and Ben

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому

      Great to hear you are having a good time 😀 with the weather like it is but I'm still in Reykjavik. The wind is my compass now

  • @gosborg
    @gosborg 2 роки тому

    That’s a really lovely video, dreamy even. Thank you.

  • @bondisteve3617
    @bondisteve3617 2 роки тому

    Wow! Absolutely stunning video! Somebody pay this man.

  • @ewmbr1164
    @ewmbr1164 2 роки тому

    Stunning! Absolutely stunning!

  • @andycapp2678
    @andycapp2678 2 роки тому +1

    One of my favorite places!

  • @fredmundur
    @fredmundur 2 роки тому

    But seriously, this one is weird and stinky, I love it. I didn't know about the trails on top of it, many thanks for the drone view!

  • @CaSuMog
    @CaSuMog 2 роки тому +3

    You know what‘s a real problem…. When you are there, at the tourist spot at 2:09 and need a toilet. Nothing near and zero hides… no vegetation no nothing.

    • @joshocht3483
      @joshocht3483 2 роки тому

      You can 'sit and shit' ... the environment smel is your cover-up ... 😆

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому +1

      It's always possible to use the hot springs...

  • @quitemountainwoman1592
    @quitemountainwoman1592 2 роки тому

    Thank you for sharing 🙏🙏🙏

  • @aaronfranklin324
    @aaronfranklin324 2 роки тому +1

    Very interesting. We have similar active fumerole features and structures around our central Volcanic Plateau in Numerous supervolcano Caldera zones from White Island through Rotorua, Taupo, through the Ngarahoe/Ruapehu/Tongariro complex and Mt Taranaki. At the western Cape.
    A Question.
    Did this one form largely subglacially? Or is it more the result of deglaciation triggered deep geofluid decompression?

  • @rickc4317
    @rickc4317 2 роки тому +1

    Very interesting...thank you!

  • @derrickstableford8152
    @derrickstableford8152 2 роки тому +1

    Was here a couple of weeks ago. Also went to lake Myvatyn. The burgers at the farm nearby are good.

  • @gretchenchristophel1169
    @gretchenchristophel1169 2 роки тому +1

    Iceland has been on my bucket list to visit for the Auroras...but, thanks to your wonderful videos, I will have to be sure to see the volcanic vistas. (When am I going to sleep? 🙂)
    Looking forward to tomorrow's updates...thank you.

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому

      Check my aurora guide nd welcome to Iceland :) ua-cam.com/video/gYxyacI9dlc/v-deo.html

  • @boaz2079
    @boaz2079 2 роки тому +3

    Hey man, last may I was there too the smell was Well let’s say interesting😄 after that I went to krafla which is also a remarkable place in Iceland!!!

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому +1

      My Krafla video from last spring :) ua-cam.com/video/IWdzOGF1sgE/v-deo.html

    • @boaz2079
      @boaz2079 2 роки тому

      Currently watching!!

  • @jenniferlevine5406
    @jenniferlevine5406 11 місяців тому

    I love watching this video!

  • @floglobe
    @floglobe 2 роки тому

    so beautiful - thank you x

  • @peter8605
    @peter8605 11 місяців тому

    Thank you Gylfi for making me relive my beautiful memories 😎

  • @laynelair2233
    @laynelair2233 2 роки тому

    Interesting! Hot springs? Looks like a volcanic neck on the one spot! 😁✌️😎🌞

  • @mybluecastle
    @mybluecastle 2 роки тому

    Stunning.

  • @aureaphilos
    @aureaphilos 11 місяців тому

    That is such beautiful imagery! I never got over to Myvatn or Husavik during my visit; Akureyri was as far as we got in May 2017, owing to the blizzards on the passes. Question for you: is it permitted to collect mineral specimens around the fumaroles? I wanted to collect specimens for my collection when I visited, but nobody knew if it was permitted, or if a permit was required. Love those minerals, and the basalts I saw were sometimes coated with bright blue, yellow, or red alteration minerals.

  • @marjamerryflower
    @marjamerryflower 5 місяців тому +1

    ❤we have been there august 2024. It was the weirdest place! And the smell...

  • @gerhardanton8759
    @gerhardanton8759 2 роки тому

    Greetings to Iceland,
    we just arrived from our Work from the little Farm in the Vulcanic South Carpathian Mountains and Plains between Ploiesti and Buzau....
    ....
    thinking on the 1977 Earthquake in Romania I know what means...
    I have been in March 1980 first time in RO and was absolute astonished...
    ...
    hope nothing to happen more....
    Greets from Bucharest...
    ...

  • @Jason-2023
    @Jason-2023 2 роки тому +1

    The chalky light pinks, yellows and white colors on top of this formation remind me so much of the bauxite minerals they mine near where I hunt deer here. I'd be interested in knowing the makeup of that ground. But bauxite would be rather out of the ordinary for your latitude. Of course, in a volcanic system, anything can be spit up from deep below.

    • @Tugela60
      @Tugela60 2 роки тому

      Even Jimmy Hoffa?

    • @Jason-2023
      @Jason-2023 2 роки тому

      @@Tugela60 Nah, everyone knows he became pig food 🦴

  • @steelydan473
    @steelydan473 2 роки тому +2

    TOTALLY AMAZING

  • @jeffroussell
    @jeffroussell 6 місяців тому

    Walked part of this at ground level, looks completely different (awesome) from the drone.

  • @hreader
    @hreader 11 місяців тому

    If this includes Namaskard, I visited the place with my family back in 1964 and again in 1973. Very impressive, and as you say like an alien landscape. Another such for me was Kawah Ijen back in 2003.

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  11 місяців тому

      Thanks for sharing! and yes this is Námaskarð :)

  • @RoxnDox
    @RoxnDox 2 роки тому

    Gorgeous!

  • @Varasalvi2
    @Varasalvi2 2 роки тому +1

    As a coach driver, driving day trips from cruise ships to this location. I wish they'd build some sort of path there, so tourists don't have to walk in the mud, and then bring that muddy clay back into the bus.
    Edit: Also, if this was recorded today, which i suspect it was considering the good weather, then i just might be in one of those buses seen in the end shot ;)

    • @tokarukora7272
      @tokarukora7272 2 роки тому

      If they built paths there, the area would lose much of its natural beauty.

  • @2xKTfc
    @2xKTfc 2 роки тому

    Thank you and the people commenting for warning of flies. I've added a hat with a mosquito net to the list. :)

  • @crazyjoep2344
    @crazyjoep2344 2 роки тому

    Amazing!! So Alien!! Love it :)

  • @Iskandar64
    @Iskandar64 2 роки тому

    Beautiful.

  • @yomogami4561
    @yomogami4561 2 роки тому

    beautiful video

  • @user-wy2iw5vy5u
    @user-wy2iw5vy5u 2 роки тому

    Thanks from Ken.

  • @caetlynrose4
    @caetlynrose4 2 місяці тому

    Thank you!

  • @volkerrode4980
    @volkerrode4980 2 роки тому +1

    Is this music somewhere available for free download? Or is this music where you have to pay for?

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому

      elements.envato.com/ambient-drone-9SZUTVG

  • @dainjohnson2596
    @dainjohnson2596 2 роки тому +1

    We have been there. Smells bad and there was lots of flies 😃🪰👃 still really pretty!

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому +1

      Wow the flies man.....I sat in the car while flying over there :)

    • @dainjohnson2596
      @dainjohnson2596 2 роки тому

      @@JustIcelandic I put my baseball cap over my face, next time I'll remember a net. We're going to drive Route One again in the next year of two. One of my favorite road trips!!

  • @TheAnnie41
    @TheAnnie41 2 роки тому +1

    Wow thank you

  • @Justfollowthecrumbs
    @Justfollowthecrumbs 2 роки тому

    Beautiful

  • @deepquake9
    @deepquake9 2 роки тому +1

    Nice. Was that a statue on top of a peak?

  • @briandawson3330
    @briandawson3330 2 роки тому +1

    Good afternoon everyone from a sweltering Edinburgh Scotland 😎 !! Could anyone inform me of the music used in this clip please ??? Many thanks. Brian Dawson Edinburgh 😎🤠💦 on

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому

      elements.envato.com/ambient-drone-9SZUTVG

  • @reginatonetti7421
    @reginatonetti7421 3 місяці тому

    I dream of Iceland. ❤❤❤❤

  • @rufeilrahtieh7885
    @rufeilrahtieh7885 2 роки тому

    2:08 Is kind a futuristic vision.
    Another planet, pilgrims visiting to fill up their energy spirit tank.

  • @mfanto1
    @mfanto1 2 роки тому

    Nice drop in viewers over a few days why are you not streaming from a lava island right not?

  • @FirstDagger
    @FirstDagger 2 роки тому +2

    Wouldn't be out of place in a Prehistoric documentary.

  • @astrogeo1
    @astrogeo1 2 роки тому +1

    What are the nearest towns ?

    • @xfire301
      @xfire301 2 роки тому

      None nearby.

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому

      It would be this one, Húsavík: ua-cam.com/video/Nv7Q0W1l_B4/v-deo.html

    • @Sally4th_
      @Sally4th_ 2 роки тому

      @@JustIcelandic not Reykjahlíð? I know it's tiny but there's a supermarket and a pizza place :)

  • @taraelizabethdensley9475
    @taraelizabethdensley9475 2 роки тому

    Such a strange otherworldly place

  • @speckgens
    @speckgens 2 роки тому

    ..name of the song please?

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому

      elements.envato.com/ambient-drone-9SZUTVG

  • @puddintame7794
    @puddintame7794 2 роки тому

    No lack of sulfur by the looks... Does it smell?

  • @alfrede.newman6626
    @alfrede.newman6626 2 роки тому +2

    👍😎

  • @Cyklonus
    @Cyklonus 2 роки тому +2

    👍👍

  • @hildichannel9739
    @hildichannel9739 2 роки тому +2

    👍

  • @alasdairblackmore2592
    @alasdairblackmore2592 2 роки тому

    Ah, but what did it look like before the Sulphur was mined out / carted off / sold for cash / swapped for goods etc ?
    I'm betting it was even weirder back then.

  • @naynaynay324
    @naynaynay324 2 роки тому

    Arguably.

  • @pamelapilling6996
    @pamelapilling6996 2 роки тому

    What an interesting feature. Definitely not basaltic lava. Ryolite?

    • @RoxnDox
      @RoxnDox 2 роки тому

      Mm, at 1:41 that outcrop certainly appears basaltic. My thought is that the entire area has had so much hydrothermal alteration that it looks rhyolitic (think Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone). That would also explain why the mountain has a lot of erosion gullies carved into it, and the small size - altered rock is a lot softer. Be interesting to see what the local geologists say about it.

    • @RockJumper
      @RockJumper 2 роки тому +1

      The Namafjall area is composed of basalt products, which have been chemically altered by the liquids and gasses bubbling up around and through them. Geology/ mineralogy is fascinating stuff!

    • @Sally4th_
      @Sally4th_ 2 роки тому

      Geothermally altered basaltic tuff but what you see here is basically an industrial landscape resulting from 600 years of mining and half the original mountain is gone. The colours are oxides of iron and sulphites. The name translates as "Mine Mountain".

  • @williammontgrain6544
    @williammontgrain6544 2 роки тому

    Have anything to tell us?

  • @fredmundur
    @fredmundur 2 роки тому +1

    I'd vote for Melifell!

  • @Dennis-lp7xe
    @Dennis-lp7xe 2 роки тому +1

    That's a really stinky place actually. I like the other side of that mountain way more.. with a flynet around my head..

  • @fannyandersson3330
    @fannyandersson3330 2 роки тому

    Looks like a big pile of ash stained with sulfur! 😃 but beautiful

  • @GurraSweden
    @GurraSweden 2 роки тому +2

    I thought you were going to talk in the clip 🙁

    • @GurraSweden
      @GurraSweden 2 роки тому

      @Starfire Horizon you think in life too.

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому +2

      Not this time but I will use this in other projects later on :)

  • @stephenbird5641
    @stephenbird5641 2 роки тому +1

    I don't want to be rude but it looks like a huge pile of mining waste.
    Why does nothing grow on it ?

    • @majonkie
      @majonkie 2 роки тому

      I was there and asked about the lack of vegetation. Was told it’s due to high levels of H2S from the vents in the air and in precipitation.

    • @JustIcelandic
      @JustIcelandic  2 роки тому +1

      They mined sulphur here a long long time ago

  • @russellfitzpatrick503
    @russellfitzpatrick503 2 роки тому

    Looks like the guy who built Iceland had a load of cement over, and just dumped it in a pile (for later ....)

  • @wifinomad8105
    @wifinomad8105 7 місяців тому +1

    .❤.

  • @wifinomad8105
    @wifinomad8105 5 місяців тому +1

    .💙.

  • @brynjolfureinarsson6038
    @brynjolfureinarsson6038 2 роки тому +1

    Takk Gylfi

  • @wifinomad8105
    @wifinomad8105 4 місяці тому +1

    .🤎.

  • @rh5563
    @rh5563 2 роки тому +2

    👍👍👍