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Glacier bus - 4th November 2020
This giant bus takes visitors across a huge piece of ice: Iceland’s Langjokull glacier. The bus is named Sleipnir after a Norse god's horse.
The red glacier mega bus is 15 metres in length. It moves on 8 large tyres. It can travel up to 60 kilometres per hour on the ice.
Rosella Greco from Italy is one of the passengers on the bus.
Rosella Greco: "It, it feels really emotional and you are, like, touching something that it’s so old, and you feel so in contact with the earth. I mean, it's like when you see the Colosseum or something so old."
The glacier formed 2,500 years ago. It is 1,450 metres at its highest point. But it is getting smaller year after year. And this process is expected to continue.
Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson researches glaciers for the Iceland Met office.
Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson: "If this continues in a similar way, or even in a still warmer climate, then it's very likely that all of Langjokull or maybe 80, 90 per cent of it will be gone by the end of this century, really."
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