{"id":881,"date":"2014-10-06T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverberry.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2014-10-12T22:25:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T22:25:40","slug":"dettifoss-waterfall-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverberry.com\/journal\/dettifoss-waterfall-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Dettifoss Waterfall, Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dettifoss<\/h3>\n

Dettifoss is Iceland’s answer to Niagara Falls. It’s\u00a0Iceland’s largest waterfall (by volume), and has been used as a film location lots of times – including in the opening scenes of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus <\/em>and Tom Cruise’s\u00a0Oblivion<\/em>.<\/h3>\n

It really is an astonishing spectacle – and every bit as deafening as it sounds in this video. Look out for the tiny figures on the opposite side of the canyon – it gives you a good idea of just how massive the waterfall is.<\/h3>\n

It was bitterly cold when I shot this, despite the fact that it was\u00a0still\u00a0the middle of August. On the drive to the waterfall, we passed through a dust storm whipped up by the desert wind, which you can hear in the soundtrack. Iceland is a place of extremes.<\/h3>\n

The guy at the end of the video is Gary Latham<\/a>, who shot the pictures for my Lonely Planet Traveller feature<\/a> on Iceland’s Ring Road.<\/h3>\n

Dettifoss Video<\/h2>\n