Travel Service in Southeast Iceland
All Around The Year Since 1994!

We organize trips to Ingólfshöfði nature reserve
and to Hvannadalshnúkur Iceland's highest peak
or something there between!

From Coast To Mountains
Travel service

    is a small tour company located in Öræfi in southeast Iceland, at the foot of Vatnajökull, the largest glacier in Europe (see info about Oraefi).
    FROM COAST TO MOUNTAINS organizes wide range of tours for people who wish to experience the glaciers and mountains of southeast Iceland on foot all year round!
    To achieve this, we hike, climb or ski, with aid of crampons, snowshoes or skis, and the destination can be a short visit to glacier close to the hotel (Ice Tour) or full day ski ascent of Iceland’s highest mountain, Hvannadalshnúkur (Mountain Tour), or something between!
    In the summer we concentrate on the increasingly popular bird watching trip with tractor drawn hay wagon to Ingólfshöfði Nature Reserve (Coast Tour). We take around 5 thousand people there each summer. We offer an easy Kayak Tour on the waters of Hofsnes also.

Einar on Hvannadalshnúkur for the 222nd time on 10th of May 2007.

- My name is Einar Rúnar Sigurðsson and I manage the tour company "From Coast To Mountains" my wife Matthildur Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir. We live on the farm Hofsnes in the county Öræfi, but Öræfi has been the residence of my family for at least 600 years. My father Sigurður Bjarnason started to do a bird watching trip to Ingólfshöfði in 1991, when he gave up sheep farming and found a new use for his hay cart. In the spring 1994 I started to guide people up to the top of Iceland's highest mountain, Hvannadalshnúkur. Now I have been 249 times on the top of Hvannadalshnúkur (since 9th of February 2010) wich is a world record.
    Since 2000 when I married Matthildur Unnur (or Matta) she and me have been doing more and more of the trips to Ingólfshöfði, but at the same time my father is retiring. He is now almost 78 years old so he deserves to take it easy. Now the third generation is starting to work in the company. Our oldest son Aron Franklín (19 years old) is helping me and Matta doing the trips.

Please contact us

From Coast To Mountains
Hofsnes - 785 Öræfi - Iceland
Phone: +(354) 8940894
Email info@oraefaferdir.is
Web site www.oraefaferdir.is