Get in touch with nature on an early summer horseback tour in Iceland offered by Adventure Women. The excursion takes visitors to scenery that includes the Hekla volcano, which has been active for ...

This is a story about love at first sight. It started in 1999, at the dawn of the internet, when a Yale employee named Tory Bilski saw an Icelandic horse for the first time. The semi-wild animal’s ...

My horse knows the land better than I, so I loosen the reins and let her lead our way across Iceland’s southern highlands. Single file, our small group from Íshestar trots toward the row of mossy ...

I nudged the horse into the bitterly cold gale force wind, turning my head to keep the blowing snow out of my eyes. A wind greater than 39 mph qualifies as a gale, and this wind clearly made the cut.

Have you ever tolted? Tolting is one of the five gaits that only Icelandic horses have. It is like walking very fast –up to 30 miles an hour. Kimberly Hart, Icelandic horse connoisseur and owner of ...

I nudged the horse into the bitterly cold gale force wind, turning my head to keep the blowing snow out of my eyes. A wind greater than 39 mph qualifies as a gale, and this wind clearly made the cut.