Rescue Workers Bring Cyclists to Shelter

Four US cyclist, who ran into trouble on Arnarvatnsheiði plateau, in the western highlands of Iceland, last night, were picked up by rescue workers and brought to shelter in Hvammstangi, Northwest Iceland.

There were three women and one man in the group, who had planned to bike over the plateau. They had set up a tent near Arnarvatn lake, north of Langjökull glacier, and then called the Emergency Line 112 for rescue. Members of the Húni rescue team had reached them by 1 am and brought them to shelter by 5 am. The travelers had provided rescue workers with an exact GPS location.

“They knew just about where they were, but didn’t have the courage to proceed,” Gunnar Örn Jakobsson, who led the rescue effort, told mbl.is. The weather was windy and rainy and all their gear and clothes had gotten wet. Other than having been wet and cold, the cyclists are reportedly doing fine.