A new feature about my work is out in The Observer: Epitaph for a Glacier by Miles Ellingham.
Miles came to Iceland and we spent a couple of days together, first in a small open-door helicopter flying over the length of the country with Heather Gano Mattera, who by coincidence had invited me to tag along in a photo trip she had planned for her upcoming book, Geography of Awe.
We flew over Ölfusá, Þórsmörk, Fjallabak, Tungná, over Jökulheimar the cabin my grandparents built 1955 and spent a honeymoon night in 1956. We went all the way over Vatnajökull and down into Eyjabakkajökull and back via Ódáðahraun, Herðubreið, Sprengisandur, Hofsjökull, Þjórsárver, Kerlingarfjöll Langjökull. Doorless. It was crazy, like a flying dream.
It was very interesting personally for other reasons, I have walked and camped in most of these areas with friends and family, I could retrace my footsteps, I had also written about many of them in my books On Time and Water and Dreamland – a self help manual for a frightened nation as many of these places have been threatened by power development or global warming.
Miles and I also went climbing through fog to Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier, and the memorial we placed there in 2019.
In the interview, we discuss why the climate crisis is so hard to talk about, and what language and mythology can do about it. Read the entire piece here.