BMG are Icelandic mountainguides specializing in ski touring, heli skiing and ice climbing in Iceland

Dear friends, partners and fellow mountain folk

As per usual you can choose to endure through my annual new years rant, but I promise it will be full of fun news and exciting things to come. First of all I would like to thank you all for an amazing 2010, a year so full of great trips with awesome people that your inbox would most likely crash if I were to go into details. But a quick run through is in order since 2010 was a year to remember for so many good things. I would also like to take the opportunity to introduce you to some of the exciting adventures we have planed for 2011, a year that promises to be just as fun filled as the passing one. Read more

The 2010 season was spectacular in terms of skiing and boarding and we also had the great pleasure of having some of the best ski photographers in the world visiting. We just added the Best of 2010 gallery so click here to check it out, and don't feel bad if you simply want nothing more than come skiing with us after wards....we know your pain.

Greetings my dear friends and fellow travelers

Attached is a small Christmas greeting from the far corner of Iceland, from the midst of the mountains of the Troll Peninsula, where the raging blizzard has settled in and tries his best to brake our spirits on this shortest day of the year. If only he knew that unlike the rest of the ''farmers'' in the valley, I actually scream for more snow.

This year we decided that instead of contributing to the worlds deforestation and Co2 buildup associated with mailing out hundreds of Christmas cards we would take the money and do something useful, so we bought lots of beer and are throwing a big party.....no just kidding. This year we will be supporting the local touring/alpine club which has recently started out on the path of building up a great network of mountain huts on the Troll Peninsula as well as raising local awareness of mountain activities such as ski touring and climbing. So I'm afraid that you won't be getting a card, but you can rejoice in the thought of a warm and cosy mountain hut being built with the help of Bergmenn Mountain Guides.

But all the same, I would like to use this opportunity to thank all of you who joined Bergmenn or Arctic Heli Skiing this year on one or more of our excellent adventures in Iceland, Greenland or around the globe as well as all our friends, colleagues, sponsors and partners in pain or pleasure for their continued friendship and support.

Stay tuned for our 2010 summary and the program for 2011 which is filled to the brim with extraordinary ski touring,heli skiing, ice and alpine climbing adventures in all four corners of the world.

On behalf of Bergmenn Mountain Guides and Arctic Heli Skiing I wish you and yours, all the best for the holidays and hope to see you in the mountains in the new year.

All the best from ''Niceland''

Jökull Bergmann

Scandinavia's biggest ski magazine Åka Skidor just came out with a feature article on Ski touring on the Troll Peninsula in Northern Iceland. Although not all of you can enjoy the Swedish text, you can all enjoy the great images by one of Sweden's top ski photographers Gösta Fries. Click on the cover of the magazine to see the article in PDF format.

During April 2010 the Swedish team of Fredrik Ericsson and Per Jonsson heli skied the mountains of the Troll Peninsula in Iceland and shot footage for the Arctic Heli Skiing promotional video. But they were also on a mission on behalf of Swedish ski film company Free Radicals for whom they shot some of the less ''average joe'' scenes, went big and crashed hard. Check out the trailer
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