Ice Climbing Tours

Some operators in Iceland allow children as young as ten to join ice climbing tours, others set the minimum age limit at sixteen years old. This depends on the difficulty of the ice climbing itself. You can see information about the minimum age in the details section of each tour page.

Ice climbing requires a helmet, crampons, a harness and ice axes, which your tour operator will provide. The only thing you need to bring for your ice climbing tour is warm clothes suitable for Icelandic weather and sturdy hiking shoes with ankle support.

It would be best if you had a reasonable fitness level for your ice climbing tour in Iceland without pressing back, knee, or neck problems.

Warm, waterproof clothes, gloves, and well-fitting hiking boots with decent ankle support—the more rigid, the better. All equipment needed for ice climbing will be provided to you by the tour operator.

Climbing up an ice wall and back down again takes about five to ten minutes, but you will spend at least an hour on the glacier during your ice climbing tour in Iceland.