I totally agree we in the English speaking nations I think tend not to learn another language let alone 3 or 4 and yet many esp, in Europe all learn English from an early age, I know the Dutch made if a compulsory subject straight after WW 2. but many learn other languages also.
I really like his English. To an extent it shows us a real person, doing real stuff. This character trait, a form of bravery, is part of what makes Valur, so valorous. He is, as we say here in Australia, "having a go" even though he has to struggle at times. He's an ordinary bloke in an extraordinary situation and he's doing a great job. Art, quite clearly, has an opinion and together they produce one of the best RU-vid shows I've seen.
I once helped to lead a tour group in Iceland. The amount of stupid shit I saw some tourists doing just in those ten days was something else. Iceland doesn't play. Usually if they have a sign telling you not to do something it's because you can actually die if you do it. Absolutely stunning country and lovely people. I feel bad for them with how stupid some tourists can be there.
@@catheath2858 Iceland doesn't believe in bubble wrap or training wheels. The lack of signage of most areas of Iceland was one of my favourite aspects of Iceland. When a spot was actually worthy of a sign it was, as you say, because the spot truly warranted it. Most of the time however it seems like the trail builders assume that, if you're on a trail, you know yourself, you know how to assess risks, and you know that you're ultimately responsible for keeping yourself as safe as possible. It was delightful contrast to most of North America and I loved it.
These field reports from from the front line keep getting better and better. This really puts the whole area into perspective and provides a scale that’s difficult to comprehend from fixed webcams alone. This has a full mix of volcanology, geography, history, natural history and social and potential economic impact as well. The geothermal plant will be very worried about the acidification of water, which would require neutralising so as not to damage their expensive equipment, which in itself introduces further expense. Thank you !
That's just what I was concerned about, the acid infiltrating the Plant's water and equipment. Watched a video yesterday about a volcanic lake that was stronger than battery acid. I also love this Channel for its field reporting on all issues to do with Iceland and not only the volcano. Great to learn of other cultures.🇦🇺
We all love the accent! One of the things I like about listening to how others pronounce English dipthongs, it gives me a hint on how I should be pronouncing the dipthongs of that language.
@bass & pickrel slayer GutnTag's accent isn't icelandic. And at the risk of sounding sacrilegious, I am not a fan at all. Not of his accent, of the pitch of his voice, the factual mistakes he makes, and after 25 visits to the volcano, dozens of videos, he hasn't learned to slow down when he pans. Or invest in a wind screen for his mic.
@bass & pickrel slayer , i guess you missed my other comment where I informed you exactly where Gutn Tog is from. I narrowed it down. You said you'd be impressed. We don't care. I'm surprised you want that kind of exactitude from others when you accept random incorrect ramblings from Gutn Tog. I sure hope you don't go around IRL telling every little body who offends your sensibilities that they're talking out their ass. Quiet a weakling, aren't you
Valur is the ideal guide: knowledgeable, generous with his knowledge, and enthusiastic about it and the experiences he is sharing. I planed study tours for the Smithsonian Institution Associate program for 20 years and Valur is the kind of study leader I always looked for but rarely found.
You can tell of their ignorance as they couldn't even understand accented English. Wasn't it three times that Valur had to repeat himself? Call me morbid but I would have loved for this dipstick to have fallen through! 🙋🏼♀️🔥🤸♂️🔥🤳
@@krisushi1 am liking this comment based on the use of ‘dipstick’, which I haven’t heard in ages! This man on the lava could indeed turn into a magma dipstick if he’s not careful.
In 50 years time Valur jnr will be doing the show and commentating on the 12 000 foot high volcano from offshore .. which is the closest they can get to it .. and it will still be fantastic. "We can no longer walk on Iceland, it is what it is ..."
I wish they would transport that house to another place to save it. Thank you for taking us along on this trip. An especial thanks to Art for climbing up the big hill to present that wonderful vista. It was worth it!!
Or just build a few diversion walls to direct the lava elsewhere. No need to block it completely, just redirect it so it avoids the house. Not that expensive to build a few barricades to divert it, it's way more expensive trying to wall it in but if you just want to redirect it a short walk is good enough
@@karlmarxii1898 That entire area will be flooded with lava in probably less than a month. A few barricades would be insufficient. Moving it is the only option to save it.
Hi!.. From Melbourne Australia!...You are doing a great job,showing all of us around the World what it is like..I hope you receive an AWARD for your work...
When this episode was over, I was so surprised to find that 23 minutes had past. It was riveting from start to finish. I watch Gutin Tog's videos for the day to day "here is what the immediate flow area is doing" - great info. And I greatly look forward to your videos to give the big picture around what the volcano is doing, not just in the moment, but projected out to the physical and economic impact down the line. The view on that second highest mountain - wow! What a wonderful perspective of how the lava is moving and how it will eventually impact the various locations. Just fascinating! (And now I can munch on my really fun and delicious Icelandic snacks and candy from your store while being updated).
Shocking to see how these idiots didn’t even care that they’re caught on camera. Thank You Valur for trying to warn them but don’t put yourself in jeopardy. It’s on them if anything should happen. So Amazing to see how much the land has changed in the last 3 months. Thank You and Art for another great report and video. … And Hi, to Polly. 🇮🇸 🌋 🐶
Nothing better than hiking up the mountains to see the volcano with Valur whilst sitting in the comfort of my home sipping hot coffee. Very sad to see the idiots walking on the lava & ignoring advice that it is Dangerous. Hello from Queensland Australia 🇦🇺❤️🙋♀️
Hot coffee in QLD? Has to be for the caffeine fix as it's never cold enough for hot drinks up there. Now, in northeast Victoria at the base of the Alps, it's a different story. We've been getting below zero nights and mid-teens as our highs. Swap? It's funny how many Aussies I see on these Channels, especially the volcanic ones. I love listening to all the news from Iceland. It's on my Bucket List to make it one day. Can't wait.🇦🇺🥰
Also appreciating this volcano from QLD! Awesome to see how our main range volcanics (Toowoomba-Warwick-Gold Coast) would have formed from these videos. Have to wonder how similar this landscape would be to ours millions of years from now.
I came across your channel just after the eruption started, and have enjoyed not only your reports on the volcano, but also the insights into Icelandic life. And as for the idiots, you can't fix stupid, no matter how hard you try.
What a crazy wind 🌪 I was worried you would take off 😳. Selfish idiots walk on lava 😡 Interesting about the shield volcanos. Thank you both for another great report xx
Valur, please don't stand so close to the edge of the cliff in that high gusty wind. A sudden strong gust could knock you over and you could get killed. That has happened to hikers before. Love your English! Its adorable. That is why I fell in love with you. Stop apologizing. Hey, don't you have a woolen beanie to wear on your head in that cold wind?.
You can see by the way that guy ignores you, that it's going to take a death before they stop climbing on the lava, no one should risk there lives for stupidity, like the rescuer's will be expected to. You can't get a body out of that, it will be burt to ash, nothing left at all. Death and cremation in one stupid move.
Thats the thing they dont seem to realise if the crust breaks their leg/s body will be in molten lava and not just risk getting burnt but probably just be instantly gone. For what, a photo?
My goodness Valur, right at the edge: "Can you hear me?" Art: "Yes! WATCH OUT!" And I though we almost lost our favourite Iceland reporter! Phew! Greetings from Ontario 🇨🇦 Canada. Jim and I love your RU-vids! Thank you both! Keep up the good work. That volcano looks like something out of a SciFi movie! Surreal!
Between the 'Farm' episode & this I am now fully immersed! Thank you sir & your most excellent cameraman. Here's hoping for the 'Tourist falls through lava crust' episode :O)
I am glad you drew attention to that cretin on the fresh lava, but people like that won't learn until its too late. Anyway, a super news report, showing the landscape surrounding the volcano. Thanks for making a big effort to make it even more interesting. And of course your trusty friend with the camera whom, it seems, will follow you to the ends of the world.
Always a pleasure watching this podcast, that is quite the conclusion on the potential for this to last 1 year + I really feel badly for the owner of the farrm! I felt the emotions of the moment seeing the wind and the incredible breathtaking scenery there, made my day!
Thank you for speaking English, I am trying to learn some Icelandic and finding it quite difficult, so this is a welcome relief. Stay safe and keep up your excellent reporting. People are watching from all over the world.
I love your commentary. Always clear, humorous, always informative. We came for the volcano and will stay for the news and views. Love Iceland and can't wait to come back, all the way from Aotearoa!
As an American we don't claim him, if he wants to do stupid things like stand on lava he can win stupid prizes for doing so. One thing I try to tell people is, "Enjoy nature, but don't disturb it".
I'm seriously waiting to have some idiot filming themselves playing on the lava and getting severely burnt. I know it sounds bad, but man hearing about someone getting a stupid prize for playing a stupid game always makes me laugh. Man, this makes me sound like a awful person.
@@C3metalthingies my endless curiosity still wonders how it would look and sound... In this time it's still missing footage on the internet. And I have searched it before.. So please Darwins theory..
I have to admit I watch your news more than I do the UK news. Your English is excellent. RU-vids subtitles are hysterical, the other day it heard you say Eyjafjallajokull and translated it as "airfield yogurt". Keep up the great work.
Mahalo (Thanks) for your reports. I'm in Hawaii and I am a geologist as well. It was great to hear you use the lava descriptor "pahoehoe " which is a Polynesian Hawaiian word used in geology. The other descriptor for the dark lava is "a'a", pronounced, 'ah - ah'. It will be very interesting watching this shield volcano develop. If this continues, perhaps we will see how rift zones develop. In Hawaii, we can't see this because it happens in the deep ocean. Mahalo again and Aloha.
Think of walking on a solid layer of ceramic dinnerware mixed with glass. If your foot breaks through the layer, and it is not hot below you, you will most likely suffer possibly life threatening wounds from the sharp edges. If you fall through the crust, you will be falling onto hard and very possibly sharp glass like surfaces. Even if there is not molten lava below, it can remain very hot for a long time, and you could be badly burned or cooked alive before being rescued. There are also sill a lot of exsolving gases that can cause asphyxiation that would most likely be concentrated below the surface.
I was watching every once in a while since I follow Reykjavík Grapevine, but since Valur does EXCELLENT volcano reports, I am inhaling every single video and enjoying them throughly. Takk fyrir 😊
I love your broadcasts! Thank you and all your staff for going out in all kinds of weather to bring us this fantastic once in a lifetime event. Please be careful, which I know you will be. I wish the little house could be moved to another location, it's beautiful. Thanks again from southwest Idaho.
I tried to reach the vulcano today, but for me it was to difficult. I'm not used to walk in mountains, and with the loose gravel it is hard to get grip. I was amazed by the amount of people who climbed the mountains 👍🏽 So I can say it is not easy this path C, but a lot of people can do it. Very frustrating though to be this close... so back to RU-vid to see what I missed... ☹
@@mikerichards6065 Yes, I was there a week earlier, just after path A was closed. I saw the running lava up close! Felt the heat, smelt the burning. This second time the lava in Natthag valley was black, seemingly not much going on.
You give us the truth about the volcano and its effect on the land around it in a wonderful narrative. I gobble up your videos as soon as I see one published. this is the only channel I have on "notification" You are truly an asset to your country and your profession. Bravo. (and your English is amazing)
In still image (webcam), we lose the concept of direction. Your images give us that again. It allows us to keep track of what's going on there. Thank you. Greetings from Turkey.
I was dying laughing with this video after turning on "closed captions" - they were autogenerated Dutch, which when translated back into the English he's using wasn't really close at all. Excellent coverage of the volcano. I like the style you use.
Thank you Valur and Art for braving the wind to shoot this footage for us. Wow has it ever changed. So glad you didn't get blown off the mountain. Greetings from Alberta Canada.
I have been meaning to comment …. I haven’t seen anyone KNITTING near the volcano! Recently, it was International Knit In Public Day, and that got me thinking that if I was there for a visit, I would definitely have brought my Icelandic Flax and sat on the mountain and knitted whilst watching the amazing view. I’m sure the smells of the gasses and burnt shrubs would have their go at scenting any wool I would have on me……. Imagine the price increase I could add to my finished projects! HA! Joking, but, I’m sure SOMEone would bid higher, I’m sure. However, knitting where YOU were today…….. that would have been hilarious! I could imagine my ball of yarn flying away at sonic speed! Goodness me! I think I would brave it and bring an Intarsia piece… that’s when you knit with several colours all in one row, and therefore you need a ball for each colour … it looks like Pom-Poms hanging off the back of the work. THAT would be the most challenging and funny thing to do where you were - all that fantastic wind! Your mime actors should be out there filming some classic stunts! ***[Edit] - I ran a search on RU-vid for Intarsia, and it gave simple examples - of COURSE the one I was thinking of would have 22 separate colours in it, not those silly two strand EEEEEEEEasy ones. (huff/gerfuffle).
As you say, imagine selling sweaters permeated with the smell of burnt shrubs and gases from the volcano. It would make them very special - not that I'd care to wear one!
I'd hardly refer to that idiot as "intelligent life". It took him three times to even understand the word "dangerous" and yet still didn't care. A waste of oxygen, let him fall in!
@@raymondo162 Plus he kept going back out for a better photo. When he walks back to the girl, they huddle over the camera to make sure they've got the perfect shot. Then the other fools join in too! Can't these people think for themselves?
New eruptions starting with a string of vents then concentrating in a single one is a pattern that has been seen several times in Hawaii. Thanks for such informative videos.
The posts below pretty much express my sentiments so I'll spare you a repeat . . . But I do want to say a big *thank you* to ace reporter Valur Grettisson and his very capable and talented cameraman Art Bicnick. You guys take us to places we never could have dreamed of going to before. Bless you both. Take care of yourselves and stay safe and well. 💙
I feel like they really care and read the comments. It was just a couple to a few videos ago that I mentioned how I couldn't understand what he was saying for his name and now during this video they made a point to put it in the description and mention it was there. It might just be a coincidence but how great is this channel if it's not. I love my newly (since the volcano) RU-vid channel. Valur is always interesting and Art is so good at soothingly filming it. And of course there always the great molly to entertain. All of them are so good at their jobs. And I love the personalities and the easy going of how they report things. Six months ago I had no idea I would be so interested in Iceland. It started with the volcano but I have stuck around watching this channel because Valur is so interesting. Plus as an American living in Florida, thinking about somewhere that is cool in temperature is good on the mind too. And the impression is that all of Icelanders are very friendly and all get along. It seems like a great place to live other than the cold weather and I would imagine higher places of things since it's an island but that's just a guess. Things might be inexpensive for all I know. I definitely want to visit one day. It probably wouldn't be soon though even though I am fully vaccinated. I just have a few other places I want to visit first. Ugh, I did it again. A long and boring comment. Sorry.
Again another very informative and interesting broadcast Valur. Art should win an award for his photography skills. Thankyou both for keeping us updated with what is happening in Iceland. The only country I have visited more than once and hope to get back to very soon. What a shame the idiots on the lava give tourists a bad name. If they have to be rescued they should be made to pay all costs. If not with the biggist one, their lives! Keep up the fabulous work I love watching from the UK. 🇬🇧🇮🇸 🌋
Thank you Valur from New Zealand. A common denominator of the many videos I have watched recently is the "idiot" tourists racing to be the first fatality of the volcano.
Those tourists are CRAZY and so inconsiderate of the search and rescue teams they put in peril during a rescue. I doubt whether they thought of the cost of a helicopter rescue. We have many mountain climbers get into trouble on Mount Hood in Oregon, usually climbing at the wrong time of year, and those rescues are EXPENSIVE (those rescued are expected to pay- some pay with their lives, however). Some people have no common sense nor respect for authorities, who make the rules for our safety and not just to be mean. You were very nice (maybe too nice) to that tourist; I would have said something more harsh. Thanks for taking us to that incredible lookout spot, Valur and Art.
I wish I had the money to pay for this beautiful farmhouse to be moved. Cheers to you both, our fantastic Icelandic newsman Valur and Mr. Photography, Art.
Excellent video! Thank you for bringing perspective to what has been a little confusing from other reports. And thank you for the Search and Rescue info. I admire a service who will do an awful lot to help folks out but won't endanger themselves. I hope the recognized need for thoughtful common sense expands from Iceland to more countries.
Nothing quite like the feeling of getting blown around over rough ground. A big high-five for you and your cameraman managing that along with the task at hand. 👍 Try paw hoey-hoey barely touching the 'ey' E's… more of a suggestion or headed in that direction than a committed hard Eee. 🍍 Aloha
Congrats on the well deserved 50k subscribers, your excellent on-site reporting and the stable cameraman's work. Always looking forward for your updates. Stay safe and keep them coming! Saludos from Puerto Rico.🇵🇷❤️
Thank you for doing this "backwards" view of the volcano. I remember watching the original live cam 3 months ago wondering what it'd look like from the top of the mountain in the distance, and now I know. Keep the videos coming, there're always great!
