ISLEIFUR KONRAOSSON (1899-1972)
Hvannadalshnjúkur (2,110m - 6,920ft)
Iceland
The painter
Ísleifur Sesselíus Konráðsson is an icelandic artist with a singular career who painted a very limited number of paintings! He spent most of his life working on fishing boats and then until he was 70 years old on freighters between Iceland and North America.
John S. Kjarval exhorted him to paint and to expose for the first time in his life eight of his paintings, considered as" naive" by the critics, the day of his 73rd birthday.
The mountain
Hvannadalshnúkur or Hvannadalshnjúkur (2,110m - 6,920ft) is a pyramidal peak on the northwestern rim of the summit crater of the Öræfajökull volcano in Iceland and is the highest in Iceland. The peak is part of the Vatnajökull National Park.
The route to the top is a popular climb through numerous and frequently hidden crevasses, and, because of this, the climb calls for experienced mountain guides.
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