I went on a guided hiking trip in Iceland. The first day, we climbed to 1000 metres, after our guide warned us the weather was going to be a “little streamy”,

I went on a guided hiking trip in Iceland. The first day, we climbed to 1000 metres, after our guide warned us the weather was going to be a “little streamy”, which is a humorously Icelandic way of describing 1 degree Celsius, hurricane-strength winds, with accompanying horizontal rain. If we’d been wearing sneakers rather than our hiking boots I suspect we’d have left our feet frozen on the trail somewhere.