The Weirdest Mountain in Iceland - Námafjall
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Here is a little extra treat that I uploaded just before the eruption in and publishing now while I'm editing a new story that's stuffed with footage and online tomorrow Saturday.
MT. Námafjall is a geothermal high-temperature area east of Mývatn in Iceland that in a way looks like an alien landscape and features a large collection of boiling mud pots and steam springs called fumaroles, which are openings in the ground that emit sulphurous gases so this place smells like rotten eggs. Sulphur was mined here from the 13th century until the middle of the 19th century. This has been protected territory since 1974 but you can learn more about the sulphur export from my video about the nearby town Húsavík from where it was exported.
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Top-notch camera work and production (as usual). Interesting mountain!
Thanks Mark :)
It's amazing. I am so lucky to have people like you and the technology to share these incredible scenes. ❤
Always welcome :)
Stunning. Beautiful drone work and might I add...the perfect soundtrack.
Many thanks!
Stunning colors. Iceland is a remarkable place for sure. Thank you for keeping us entertained. It's good to see you are well.
Thanks for watching👍 Volcano update tomorrow with new footage
Don't know about weird, smelliest more like. The Myvatn area is outstanding .
Yes it's my favourite part of the plate boundaries 😃
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 😁
The my (little fly’s) on the lake are the worst 👎
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.
Thanks a ton :) it's inspiring for me to hear this :)
Thanks for the beautiful video. The landscape and the music go so well together. Have a great weekend everyone.
Thank you! You too!
I’ll never forget the smell of that place. Like a porta-potty on a hot summer day…
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
Well, they need to build some proper toilets for the tourists then, instead of just going where they stand.
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 ;-)
One of my favorite places!
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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!
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!
Many thanks
Just wow definitely on my bucket list your country just keeps on surprising me the colors and landscape’s 🥰
Just starting :)
Thanks so much, Gylfi. Strange, yet beautiful landscape, well worth a visit, while in amazing Iceland. 💖
You’re welcome 😊
Absolutely incredible drone video, thank you.
Thanks 😊
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
I'm sure they will :) and thanks for visiting
The gods are less forgiving though. You will be cursed for three generations until the stolen stone is returned to where it belongs.
@@Tugela60 Well, at least I'm not planning on having child any time soon
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
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.
Very interesting...thank you!
My pleasure!
Thank you for sharing 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for visiting
Was here a couple of weeks ago. Also went to lake Myvatyn. The burgers at the farm nearby are good.
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I recognise it. love the myvatn area. beautiful to see from above. thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it👍
A crazy visual mix of the Algerian desert and Jellystone (sorry Yellowstone) Park. Only in Iceland could such a mix exist
Welcome :)
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
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
Wow! Absolutely stunning video! Somebody pay this man.
Appreciated and thanks 😊
That’s a really lovely video, dreamy even. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you Gylfi...That mountain is beautiful...weird if it is the only one...and the music fits it well...
greetings from Scotland😁
Appreciated and thanks 😊
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 🦄
It looks like a monstrous sea creature that's been zapped and then beautifully photographed. Thank you for showing it to us.
Thanks for watching
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!
My pleasure!
I was completely blown away, when I visited this geothermal area, having never seen anything like this before. What a place!
Yes this is something different :) and the smell, oh man...
Greetings to Iceland,
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❤we have been there august 2024. It was the weirdest place! And the smell...
😅 I know the smell
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... ;-)
As always, my pleasure and enjoy :)
Stunning! Thank you.
Thank you! Cheers!
Interesting! Hot springs? Looks like a volcanic neck on the one spot! 😁✌️😎🌞
Beautiful and wonderful work, Thank you Sir
Many thanks!
Stunning.
Welcome
Walked part of this at ground level, looks completely different (awesome) from the drone.
Thank you Gylfi for making me relive my beautiful memories 😎
My pleasure 😊
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.
Even Jimmy Hoffa?
@@Tugela60 Nah, everyone knows he became pig food 🦴
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.
Thanks for sharing! and yes this is Námaskarð :)
so beautiful - thank you x
Thanks 😊
I spent 3 hours in this place, on the top hill! Wonderful view and peaceful!
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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.
Wouldn't be out of place in a Prehistoric documentary.
I fully agree :)
Thanks from Ken.
Welcome Ken :)
Gorgeous!
Thank you! 😊
I love watching this video!
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!!!
My Krafla video from last spring :) ruclips.net/video/IWdzOGF1sgE/видео.html
Currently watching!!
Nice. Was that a statue on top of a peak?
Just some dude :)
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?
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.
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Stunning! Absolutely stunning!
Thank you! Cheers!
Beautiful.
Thank you! Cheers!
beautiful video
Thank you
TOTALLY AMAZING
Welcome :)
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 ;)
If they built paths there, the area would lose much of its natural beauty.
Beautiful
Welcome
Such a strange otherworldly place
👍 yes it sure is
Amazing!! So Alien!! Love it :)
Appreciated and thanks 😊
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.
Nice drop in viewers over a few days why are you not streaming from a lava island right not?
2:08 Is kind a futuristic vision.
Another planet, pilgrims visiting to fill up their energy spirit tank.
Is this music somewhere available for free download? Or is this music where you have to pay for?
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Thank you and the people commenting for warning of flies. I've added a hat with a mosquito net to the list. :)
That's a really stinky place actually. I like the other side of that mountain way more.. with a flynet around my head..
Yes wow the flies...ufff
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.
You can 'sit and shit' ... the environment smel is your cover-up ... 😆
It's always possible to use the hot springs...
Wow thank you
You’re welcome 😊
I'd vote for Melifell!
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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
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We have been there. Smells bad and there was lots of flies 😃🪰👃 still really pretty!
Wow the flies man.....I sat in the car while flying over there :)
@@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!!
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Welcome :)
Arguably.
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No lack of sulfur by the looks... Does it smell?
Like rotten eggs
@@JustIcelandic lol!
Have anything to tell us?
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Welcome :)
What are the nearest towns ?
None nearby.
It would be this one, Húsavík: ruclips.net/video/Nv7Q0W1l_B4/видео.html
@@JustIcelandic not Reykjahlíð? I know it's tiny but there's a supermarket and a pizza place :)
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What an interesting feature. Definitely not basaltic lava. Ryolite?
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.
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!
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".
I thought you were going to talk in the clip 🙁
@Starfire Horizon you think in life too.
Not this time but I will use this in other projects later on :)
Looks like the guy who built Iceland had a load of cement over, and just dumped it in a pile (for later ....)
Makes Uluru look like a green paradise by comparison
I don't want to be rude but it looks like a huge pile of mining waste.
Why does nothing grow on it ?
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.
They mined sulphur here a long long time ago
..name of the song please?
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Looks like a big pile of ash stained with sulfur! 😃 but beautiful
It is 😃
Are you okay? Shouldnt we have heard from you by now with new volcano video and news? I hope you are okay.
Just go back :)
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Enjoy :)
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Takk Gylfi
Ávallt velkominn :)
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Námafjall one of these put together Icelandic words Mine mountain.
✌️Welcome