Hikers on Vatnajökull paid for their rescue
A photograph of the rescue on Friday taken by a member of the rescue team. Photo/Stephan Mantler
The two cross country skiers who were rescued from Vatnajökull yesterday paid for the rescue service according to news on Stöð 2, channel 2 news last night. The news report also stated that the men are very sorry not to have heeded weather warnings from a rescue team that had transported their sick companion from the glacier earlier in the week.
The men will be making an insurance claim upon returning to their home country.
Friðrik Jónas Friðriksson, director of the Hornafjörður rescue team said to Morgunblaðið that the two men were asked to accompany the rescue team last Tuesday and told that there was a storm coming. "They refused to come off the glacier and also refused to move further down," he said.
