Dispatch № 003, 14 July 2026
Deplar Farm
The farm behind the weather.
- Door to door
- 11 h 33
- As searched from London
- Searched for
- 13 August
- Thursday 13 August 2026
- Fare as found
- €1,346
- Sampled on 14 July 2026; €890 of it the helicopter
- The last leg
- Helicopter
- 8 min
Thirteen suites, heli-ski guides at breakfast, and a valley in the far north of Iceland that the weather closes more often than it opens.
The line we searched: British Airways out of Heathrow at twenty-five to eight, Keflavík by ten. A taxi to the domestic airport in Reykjavík, Icelandair north at half past three, Akureyri by four. The last eight minutes are by helicopter.
Eleven hours and thirty-three minutes, door to valley, ending in the only flight in the ledger that lands at a farm.
The place
Deplar Farm is a converted sheep farm in the Fljót valley on the Troll Peninsula in north Iceland. Spring is for heli-skiing from the door; summer brings near-endless daylight and salmon rivers.
Akureyri is the nearest airport with scheduled flights; the last stretch is by road or by helicopter.
When to go
- January: out of season
- February: out of season
- March: in season
- April: in season
- May: in season
- June: in season
- July: in season
- August: in season
- September: out of season
- October: out of season
- November: out of season
- December: out of season
Heli-skiing in spring, long light in summer
Make it yours
Or open the search exactly as we ran it, from London.
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