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Photographer Tim Kemple took two of Europe's best ice climbers to Iceland and created a 16-minute film
The experienced trio scaled a glacier so large it can be seen from space and traversed a 150ft canyon on a rope
In the film, they undertook feats that are considered too dangerous for the Ice Climbing World Championships

Published: 07:02 EST, 13 November 2015 | Updated: 11:23 EST, 13 November 2015

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Thought you were pretty adventurous on your holidays? Take a look at what these guys call a vacation.

Action-sport photographer Tim Kemple took two of Europe’s most experienced ice climbers, Klemen Premrl from Switzerland and Rahel Schelb from Slovenia, on an adventure weekend to Iceland.

There, the trio explore the Vatnajökull, a glacier so large it can be seen from space, and attempts to conquer and capture the Iceland Trifecta – a host of deadly icebergs, ice caves and ice crevasse .

They faced a number of death-defying challenges that included using a fixed line to cross the mouth of a 150ft void, and a horizontal climb across the ceiling of an ice cave - a feat so difficult, it’s not even attempted in the ice climbing world championships.

Their escapades were charted by Kemple in a 16-minute video for the photosharing platform SmugMug called Climbing Ice: The Iceland Trifecta, which premiered this week at Banff Mountain Film Festival.

Kemple said: 'Glaciers are really shaped by the melting ice which creates this other otherworldly ever-changing landscape of pools, rivers and canyons, it’s unlike any other environment you’ve ever seen.'

A trio of adventurers have released a film about their trip to Iceland, where they scaled giant icebergs

They performed terrifying climbs using simple ice picks for grip

Klemen Premrl, from Switzerland and Rahel Schelb, from Slovenia, are two of Europe's most accomplished ice climbers

The pair joined action-sport photographer Tim Kemple on a trip to Iceland for his latest film

They scaled several ice canyons and a glacier so large it can be seen from space

Kemple wanted to capture the Iceland Trifecta – a host of deadly icebergs, ice caves and ice crevasse

The glacier landscape appears even more majestic at nighttime against the Northern Lights

Some of the feats the trio undertook are too dangerous to be featured in the Ice Climbing World Championships

Schelb completes a horizontal climb across the ceiling of an ice cave

The landscape at night time appears magical in the film, against a backdrop of the Northern Lights

One of the climbers uses ice picks to scale a convex ice wall

Their escapades were charted by Kemple in a 16-minute video for the photosharing platform SmugMug called Climbing Ice: The Iceland Trifecta

They faced a number of death-defying challenges that included using a fixed line to cross the mouth of a 150ft void

This canyon is so deep that it is impossible to see the bottom

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