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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 1109 Crossing Iceland by Foot - Jonathan Morsicato Revisited

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Science, Health & Fitness, Sports, Nature, Fitness, Wilderness

4.6579 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In August of 2019, Jonathan and his brother fast packed a North-South traverse of Iceland. They started in Akureyri and ended in Landmannalaugar where they met their parents for a few days of reprieve on the South side of the Island. In total, they ran/walked 170 miles in 5.5 days with around 20K vert. 

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast.

0:09.4

We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation

0:13.3

you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there.

0:17.7

Now here's your host, Kurt Lindbill.

0:19.8

Hey friends, thank you for listening to

0:21.3

the Adventure Sports Podcast today. So this is a revisited episode from 2023, so it's a couple of years old,

0:28.5

and the guest was Jonathan Marcacado, and the subject was crossing Iceland on foot.

0:38.3

And I'm excited about this one.

0:40.3

My family and I were blessed enough to get to Iceland several years ago.

0:44.3

And I've never seen such a unique landscape.

0:48.3

I've never experienced such unique weather.

0:52.3

And the whole experience was just very adventurous and very

0:59.0

interesting but I will give you one travel tip the flights to get there didn't cost much

1:06.0

which was great but once we were there being there cost a lot of money.

1:11.6

It's an island nation, very, very expensive.

1:14.6

And so, just be forewarned, a delightful experience.

1:18.6

Matter of fact, one of my bucket list items is to go back to Iceland and ride a motorcycle first around the coastline all the way around and then I want to get a different

1:30.6

motorcycle a dual sport endurance something like that and I want to start crossing over the top in several

1:37.8

different routes I just want to see the whole island and camp as we go and ride it out in the weather on a motorcycle.

1:46.1

That's one of my big dreams.

1:48.2

But anyway, this episode is about walking across Iceland with Mason doing the interviewing

1:54.8

so you know it's going to be fantastic.

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