A piece in the latest Iceland Review explored the statistics around the safety of visitors.
Iceland is not as safe as many visitors assume.
Whenever we go with a school group there is always a concern to keep them all safe, knowing that Iceland provides a more risky environment than they may be used to.
This includes locations such as Reynisfjara black-sand beach - with its notorious sneaker waves - high locations where there is little in the way of a safety fence e.g. Dyrholaey or Skogafoss steps, bubbling hot pools just off paths and elsewhere.
When I last visited in April 2025, a Chinese tourist was sadly killed when a large boulder fell from the steep slope close to the road as you round the fell which sits below Eyjafjallajökull, and hit the hire car they were in. We were due to go that same way 24 hours later and saw the cones marking the scene of the incident - quite unnerving.
There was also an incident in an ice cave which cast a spotlight on the safety of operating such things with warming temperatures.
The longer piece in the printed magazine includes a lot more detail. I picked one up on my latest visit.
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