Team

Randi Meitil has worked with us for almost 25 years organizing and guiding hiking tours and other discoveries in the Faroe Islands. She is born and lives in Tórshavn, the beautifull capital of the islands. She is a passionate mediator of Faroese nature, culture and history and knows all the legends connected to the landscape of her beloved islands. She has been teaching Spanish and Faroese in high school for many years but recently she has left the school to work full time leading groups in the Faroes. Her aim is to give people an experience that is as authentic and original as possible. Beside the Scandinavian languages she is guiding in french, English, German and Spanish.

Laurent Jegu, (43) is originally from Brittany in France. He has a master’s degree in business and communication with a specialization in multimedia and audiovisual. He came to Iceland for three months to work in a film and reporting production company, but he didn’t leave and ended up settling down for good. Reykjavik being too big a city for him, he built his house on the edge of Skaftafell Park at the very foot of Vatnajökull. When he’s not guiding for us, he leads excursions on and under the ice and kayak trips in the middle of the floating ice. Laurent is a dedicated, resourceful, enthusiastic and temperate guide with whom it is a pleasure to travel.

Pierre “Pierrot” Brihat, also known as Pétur or Pedro, (53 years old) is from Marseille like the Greek navigator Pytheas, who was the first, in 325 BC, to make a description of Iceland. He is the best cook (Pierre, not Pytheas) of Italian pasta on the Arctic Circle and is responsible for a strange tradition among the team: that of Pastis at the evening stopover in the highlands. Son of a mother of Italian origin and a Gallic father, the great photographer Denis Brihat, Pierre grew up in the Luberon in Haute Provence. He now lives in Normandy from where he manages our site and our computers. Before becoming head (partner) of his family, Pierrot suffered from a disease that seemed incurable until recently: fidgeting! Sometimes we had to work with him in a very offbeat way, via the internet, because often, he would set off, riding his big motorbike, crisscrossing the small roads of France or the USA in all directions. Thanks to Skype, we were able to visit dozens of motel rooms in the background of a happy biker. The only thing that made him forget his dear bike was the labyrinth of unusual paths in the mountains of Iceland and today his Norman family.

Lea Gestdóttir (28) is the very last mountain muse of Fjallabak. French by her mother, she recently got her diploma of philosophy from the Sorbonne University of Paris. When she speaks French she is the revolutionary resistant trendy type, but when she expresses herself in Icelandic, she talks with this strong old fashion viking accent from Dalvik in the North of Iceland. Lea is completely fluent in English and she is also very comfortable with Italian and Spanish. After one summer of intense formation in 2009, she is now one of our very experimented guide, indefatigable, friendly and devoted to her clients and in love with the mountains of Iceland.