This was my favourite video so far. Just amazing in every way. Loved the old footage. Thankyou. 👏

You were spot on in predicting unrest in the peninsula...here we are, 2023/24 and unrest it is!

@JustIcelandic

4 ай бұрын

Yes I wish I was wrong, given how this turned out for Grindavik

Some of the most fascinating footage of this video is showing the places where the CO2 has built up in small depressions in the landscape, evidenced by the torches being extinguished. My favorite parts were the lava river coming out of the "portal" and the smoke ring at the end. Thank you! This is incredible!

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I agree, it's one of the best from here, and fine quality for it's age...

Another fantastic video. Whoever colorized the footage and converted it to digital did an incredible job. I’ve noticed your commentary has been steadily improving as well. Your channel has been one of my favorite finds of the past year. Keep up the great work!

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, I'm still getting used to the mic but it was harder than I thought at first, but it's just a matter of finding my own tempo because I will need it later on when I will be driving around the country again :). But the footage is from a colour film! And it's so rare to find so old stuff in good quality, but lots more of old stuff will appear on my channel very soon :) and always welcome :)

@trojanpony

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic Color film in 1947 - wow! I suppose that’s around when it was just becoming widespread. And yes, such good quality too! Very nice find. I feel like there’s lots of videos about the Viking age and modern Iceland but very little about the thousand years in between, at least not in English and readily available. It’s much appreciated. :)

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

@@trojanpony You are right, it's really not that many documentaries and movies out there but the Icelandic state TV made some good material trough the years but it's in sub-standard picture quality and almost unusable on youtube. But I'm always on the lookout and by time it's my goal to make my own mini documentaries so this is literally my practice ground here on KZread :)

@ragnapodewski4694

11 ай бұрын

I'm not sure, that the picturen are colorized, for there have been volcan photos in colour at the same time of Hawaii.

OMG what was those people thinking. Such a dangerous toxic zone. Thanks for sharing 😊

@JustIcelandic

5 ай бұрын

Yes it's hard to see what was those people thinking 😊

Outstanding films of Hekla ... the power of the volcano is intoxicating and I can see how one would get pulled in closer ... thank you for sharing rare videos and I look forward to learning more!

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

fantastic video, how is it possible that people take such great risks to get so close. of course without them we would not have been able to see these beautiful images......for which I thank them and you off course👏🙏🏻

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

Very welcome :)

Fascinating footage! Thank you for preserving and presenting it!

@JustIcelandic

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Nice and good footage from back then. My dad was born in 1947 so that's some time ago. I heard Hekla erupted 6 times since WWII...

@JustIcelandic

Жыл бұрын

Yes you can see all eruptions here :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla

7:56 Hekla, ......was blowing smoke rings ............ IN 1947! Gylfi, you are the magnificent volcano whisper! History, and maps, ...... needs to be reintroduced into our educational institutions. Technology can only tell you so much, but knowing your country's geological history sure does help a lot. TY for your archived contents.

@JustIcelandic

Ай бұрын

Many thanks and greetings from Iceland :)

Thank you for linking to this footage from your most recent video! So amazing and scary! How many people live close to Hekla atm? How many will have to be evacuated within a shortest amount of time?? Are those people (and authorities) aware of it?

@JustIcelandic

Ай бұрын

The Hekla region is very rural north from the mountain, but there are a few farmlands south of the Hekla ridge, and some tourism, but not close enough to become a problem, but hikers on Hekla would be the main risk. And thanks for stopping by :)

Excellent commentary!

@JustIcelandic

Ай бұрын

Thank you kindly!

This footage is scary and crazy. These folks were really risking their lives. Really good footage though.

@JustIcelandic

Ай бұрын

Yes it's a great keeper into the future :)

These days we are used to drone footage and CG, these clips took my breath away. How did they get so close to take these images?

@JustIcelandic

Жыл бұрын

No good zoom back then and one scientist died up there, hit by lava, this was just some nonsense I thing...

Totally brilliant, thank you so very much for bringing to us - what was in the heads of those guys, only yesterday I was discussing brilliant pyroclastic filming where the cameraman was safe then he tells me about the volcanologists who died filming an eruption even though they survived the Mount St Helens big-one!!!

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Crazy stuff, I did actually have this dream to get really close to a volcano, but I changed my mind while editing this...my 500mm lens will be used :)

Thank you for sharing all this information and video. Best greetings from Norway : )

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

You have a great channel, sir! Many thanks, all my best regards to you from the Coachella Valley!

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much👍 and greetings from Iceland :)

Fascinating and amazing video ! Can't wait to come and visit your country. Mother Nature surely shows her savage side. Thanks for sharing.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Iceland :)

What än impressive force of nature vulcanoes are! Brave men and women

The Adrenaline hit must be incredible.

Amazing video and footage.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Love your videos

It's interesting coming back to hear your prediction for reykjanes in 2020/2021. You appear to have been spot on!

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

At least close by but we expected the Krýsuvík system to go off first, it's been unrest there for so long time, but then, it just might go off in addition to this, everything seems possible nowadays :)

@sambloke1327

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic close enough though! I'll let you off on that one haha. Which is next do you reckon? And do you think it will have a knock on effect on the eruption in reykjanes?

Wonderful clips. Thank you. Curious about what the folks at the end were doing, with the torches. Locating the areas lacking oxygen due to other gasses coming out from below?

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

yes...they were locating the areas lacking oxygen

@bluefish4064

3 жыл бұрын

heavy gases like carbon monoxide sink into the valleys and the livestock are vulnerable to poisoning. The gases are more dense than oxygen I think and so the flames are extinguished through lack of oxygen. I believe this to be the case , open to thorn

Humans are attracted to “dynamic environments.” Waterfalls, ocean beaches, tall mountains, etc. These are exciting, and the closer you can get, the more exciting it can be. Dynamic environments come fully equipped with dynamic, potentially fatal hazards as well. You can view a dangerous phenomenon safely one minute, and the next minute a subtle change in conditions will result in instant catastrophe and others will be recovering your burned, battered and smashed corpse. Maurice and Katia Krafft and dozens of others found this to be true on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992 when, after successfully filming numerous pyroclastic flows without incident, an unexpectedly large event overwhelmed their location and they were killed by a 1000 degree ash cloud.

@JustIcelandic

Жыл бұрын

Yes it looks as nonsense what they are doing in this video, way to risky for my taste, i would hardly take my drone there with the lava bombs all around, well, only the cheaper one...

I really enjoyed that. Hope to visit there again in the next couple of years. Such a beautiful country.

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

You should :) and welcome to Iceland :)

Thank you. What were they doing with the torches near the end of the video?

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

The fire died out so it's lack of oxygen and gas from the volcano, explaining the sick and dead sheep

Wow I never saw this before! How did I miss this? That is scary though. Theses guys were nuts to get so close! It’s actually a miracle more people weren’t hit by all that tephra ..or one of them didn’t fall thru all that lava that still had to be hot right u deer the surface.. just wow. I sure hope there’s no eruption quite that bad though. Let’s hope for one far away from people. Yea we won’t see as much but it’s safer. I’d love another one like the Geldingadalur eruption. 9 not sure if I s-Elle’s that right lol) . A really great video Gimli, I’m glad I found it!

@JustIcelandic

Жыл бұрын

Always welcome :)

Very interesting video! Fortunately we hopefully can get the same kind of images today if risking camera drones flying very near the ground without risking lives.

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

It's allowed to use drones again over there :) the situation has cooled down, more into in a video a'm about to finish :)

your prediction was really close!

Great video 😎😎😎👍👍👍

@JustIcelandic

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the visit

Very interesting! By the way, how is that Eurovision series coming along? Any estimated date for 2013? 🙏 Thanks!

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

I'm lacking some videos to edit from, interviews and such from 2013, pressing hard to find it because it's been on top of my list for a while to finish the series, sorry about that :)

You predicted 2020... not a bad prediction at all!!! 3 months off. Not bad at all. 👏

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome :)

Very interesting, thank you.

@JustIcelandic

Жыл бұрын

Very welcome

Good stuff 👏 👍 👌 thanks 😊

@JustIcelandic

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Best regards from Quebec ,peoples do scary things even in those days

I knew the son of Sigurbsson when he was studying in St Andrews in Scotland, in the early ‘60s. Those scientists were determined, but took too many insane risks.

@JustIcelandic

Жыл бұрын

Yes this is one crazy picnic up there

👍🙏>>>💚~~~ Great video Thank You

7:34 OK that's terrifying.

Спасибо!

Wow

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome :)

Hello Mr Just Icelandic from three years ago. Can I ask you where you think you will be focused on three years from now?

Hekla is the only active - stratovolcano - in Iceland. Therefore being more explosive and dangerous because the volcanic materias it produces are felsic and intermediate containing more SiO2 than the basaltic lavas which is by far the most common type coming out of icelandic volcanoes.

@JustIcelandic

Жыл бұрын

Yes and the longer we have to wait for the next one, the worse it gets, according to history...so we hope we don't have to wait too long..

@Justin_Leone

Жыл бұрын

Öræfajökull is also a stratovolcano. And while obviously not nearly as frequent as Hekla, I think it's still technically active.

Exciting video about Hekla but disturbingly unnecessary tone in the background. Vh Benny

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

Noted, and welcome :)

In the same year Haroun Tazieff in Congo regarded the Kituro eruption and did his heart for volcanoes find.

@JustIcelandic

11 ай бұрын

Welcome

Very scary pictures in the old film indeed. The people going so close to the flying lava, crazy. I doubt that a british steel helmet from WW2 would have made a difference, if a 50kg rock falls on that guy. Very concerning also the pictures at the end, when they hold burning torches into a ditch and it stops burning. That means there is no oxygen anymore, due to some other gas - probably CO² - that has accumulated there. Very dangerous, many people have already died from that. A few decades agao, several thousand in a incident in Africa. The people in the film were really lucky that there walked away alive from that.

@JustIcelandic

Жыл бұрын

Sadly one geologist die actually during this eruption

@petebeatminister

Жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic Yes, that has happened sometimes. The guys just get carried away in a sort of "research fever", and then take to much risk. Like in this famous instance: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l5t5qcN7iKqZe8o.html

Love the channel, but the sound is low and I personally need closed caption, as much as I like it channel it's not worth watching when I have to put all my effort in trying to hear what your saying

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

Noted! Subs on most videos now

@jonathany094

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic thank you so much I truly appreciate it. I'm gonna do my best to help you gain subs and views, I'm gonna make a comment and thumbs up and share ur vids😍.

I think that at that time without a lot of the technological capability that we have now such as drones, cameras, satellites, remote vehicles, etc. The ONLY choice was to send actual people in to the danger zone to get more data and information. It was highly dangerous, and someone WAS killed, you can see in the video, the enormous Lava Bombs being ejected and falling closely to the folks researching. Any of those that hit someone would at WORST injure them severely, but most likely would kill them outright. Those were incredibly brave and caring folks to risk their lives to gather information to understand and hopefully protect everyone else.

That was an influential year. The state of Israel was formed by the British. Ireland lost its chance of reunification .Britains offer that year not accepted by develera.

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it made history for sure :)

thankfully we have drones now

@JustIcelandic

9 ай бұрын

Yes wow.....this was crazy

😍🌋😱😳😲

Do any of your volcanos (or volcanic systems) qualify as 'supervolcanos'?

🌱🌏💚

@JustIcelandic

3 жыл бұрын

🌱🌏💚 thanks :)

The sound seems too quiet. Hard to hear what he is saying.

@JustIcelandic

Жыл бұрын

Noted

@greenman6141

Жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic Well, I am a bit on the old side. If no one else had a problem, ignore me.

You don't need your scientists to get close to the volcano today. Just keep flights from America landing and tell the nitwits what they definitely shouldn't do.

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

Aha, you mean we should open up the first real American BBQ up there :)

Before the invention of scientific equipment, they brought eggs to cook on the lava. I wonder how they turned out? 👍

@falscherbruce5522

2 ай бұрын

and toast bread too?

Rólegur með hreiminn😂

@JustIcelandic

2 жыл бұрын

👍

@ingvarjohanngubergsson1181

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustIcelandic flott video engu að síður skulum vona að hún verði þæg hún hekla