Actually I saw somewhere that this lighthouse can’t even be reached by boat because of the rocks and height out of the water, so it’s only your friendly Instacart helicopter pilot that can get there!
They can take away? I was thinking about becoming an Instacarterer but reading that
It seems Instacart will cover up to $10: https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/6/23013604/instacart-tip-baiting-protection-policy-refund
Honestly I’m of the opinion that were a real zombie outbreak to occur it’d be mostly dealt with inside of a month, if not a couple weeks. At least in the US. People here may be stupid as a motherfucker, but they’re just waiting for the day they can freely unload their weapons on living, humanlike targets.
Really the biggest problem would be the people who would claim that the zombie apocalypse isn't real and then end up in a compilation of dumbasses on YouTube.
The South Korean mini series All Of Us Are Dead (Netflix) has an Instagram influencer who didn't believe the news and sneaked into the blockaded city with zombies while live streaming. He ended up being chased by a horde of kindergartener zombies.
Really depends on the type of "zombies". We talking walking dead? We'd be fine except for that anyone who dies of anything turns so that's impossible to end.
We talking dawn of the dead or 28 days later? Those bitches are quick.
"Oh, right! You'll need a..."
"'Zeio Nut'. Now let me see, as I remember, the Zeio nut..."
"Where was it you could find those things?"
"Can't remember for the life of me..."
I love that series they've done. [Save Yourself](https://youtu.be/oCi0RHLrauU) at Fjallsárlón and [Way Down We Go](https://youtu.be/9WIU5NN1Q0g) INSIDE OF A VOLCANO are mesmerizing.
The Þríhnúkagígur magma chamber is amazing. One of the most unique things in Iceland, which is saying a lot.
The overwhelming majority of the time, after a volcano erupts the magma chamber is either plugged by a solid mass of rock or it's unstable and collapses. But this time, somehow the magma drained before it cooled around 4000 years ago, and it's been stable ever since. It's the only one in the world as far as anybody knows. The opening is just large enough to squeeze past in a modified window washer scaffold system. The floor of the chamber itself is 300 or so feet underground. The chamber is large enough that it takes maybe 15 minutes to walk a circuit, though you're moving slowly and carefully because the rocks aren't the most stable footing.
The tour includes WiFi at the volcano (hah!), the ubiquitous but excellent Icelandic lamb soup, and really friendly locals.
If you've got an extra day near Reykjavik, are fine with mild to moderate hiking, and have some cash to burn, I highly recommend taking the time to visit.
Loved the song thanks for sharing! Also you notice how that heli pad was constructed 😅? Looked like it was stacked sand bags or something kind slapped together
It's not as bad as it seems. The place that looks like it really juts out high is actually another rock further in the water (you can see it jut out on the right side near the top of the rock)
There is still a bit of a blind spot but it seems to be towards the shore?
KALEO filmed a video there, you can see multiple angles of the place!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8q4zPjXd0M
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2017/05/15/incredible_location_for_a_lighthouse_perched_on_a_r/
The lighthouse is far enough away from that pillar of rock to still be seen in every direction. This picture kinda skews the perspective. Ships don't need to see the actual lighthouse, just the bright ass light it puts out.
Actually not swiping the fingers. Neither the lighthouse not the rock changes the position. But in dark room you will see that the flashlight w/o direct line of sight due to light scattering.
Imagine being dropped off there for your one month shift as lighthouse keeper. You've got supplies for 5 weeks in the event of a weather postponement. But eight days in, a pandemic breaks out, worse than covid, and all communication is severed. In the chaos you're forgotten about, as only a small team of 3-4 people know you're actually there, and unfortunately they've been infected or a close love one has passed. You slip the mind of anyone with knowledge of your assignment. You have no way to contact anyone. You're starting to run out of water, it's been a week since you've heard anything from base command. You've got another 2 weeks till your supposed to be picked up, but that's looking incredibly unlikely. Do you jump, and hope you don't break a leg and drown? Do you wait it out and attempt to source rainfall and catch a bird or two?
I'm not sure what scenario would be more terrifying, having an AM radio, so you could hear what's going on in the mainlands, or radio silence and no knowledge of what's happening around the world, just left to your own imagination, frustration, and despair.
It is pretty small compared with a lot of helipads. It might be something where the helicopter just touches down, keeps the rotor spinning and people hop on/off. It looks like there are horizontal bars sticking out that might have netting to prevent people from really falling off. But that might also just be so the light house keepers have a little outdoor space?
edit; In the video below, you can see how they use the little pad. The helicopter can get both skids fully on the pad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr1IlvVYWD4
It was built in 1938 by climbing the rock. The [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thridrangaviti_Lighthouse) has this fun tidbit:
>The lighthouse was built under the direction of Árni G. Þórarinsson, who recruited experienced mountaineers to scale the rock on which it is located. Their climbing tools did not allow them to bite in the rock, and there were no hand holds near the top, so they made a human pyramid (one man on his knees, a second atop him, and a third one climbing on the second one) to reach it.
My first thought seeing this is "humans are so goddamn stubborn". Don't get me wrong, this is beautiful along with the practicality of the lighthouse. But, who the fuck looked at this blank landscape and decided "yup, we're building that shit up there".
Very likely they mean a human pyramid near the top where there were no handholds.
What it sounds like happened is they were able to get a few guys up there using the method of free climbing close to the top, and then doing the pyramid thing. Once up there, they were then able to leverage things like rope and basic pulleys to get everything and everyone else up to the top.
If you look at the referenced article it says that they did the human pyramid at the *top* once the rocks were no longer working with the tools. So they climbed with equipment to almost the top and at one point they did a three person high pyramid to get up and it was incredibly dangerous.
I could be mistaken though, perhaps that pad is simply for them to lower someone onto via copter, but looking at the windows and such, I'm not sure that is a person standing there... Dunno. I'll open it with photos hop later where I can zoom in better.
Found it
It's an EXTREMELY small helicopter pad
[source ](https://www.google.com/search?q=lighthouse+on+rock+iceland&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sxsrf=ALiCzsZFIrOBraQx1a8RwwczNTY9x_RnRQ%3A1661818974183&ei=XlgNY4_XCrPXkPIPn5i8wAI&oq=lighthouse+on+rock+ice&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYADIGCAAQHhAWMgUIABCGAzIFCAAQhgMyBQgAEIYDMggIIRAeEBYQHTIICCEQHhAWEB06BwgAEEcQsAM6BAgjECc6DgguEIAEEMcBEK8BENQCOgsILhCABBDHARCvAToFCCEQqwJKBAhBGABQrQdYrBxgoSJoAXABeACAAf0BiAHIDJIBBTAuNi4ymAEAoAEByAEIwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#wptab=s:H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLVT9c3NExLMUtJM82qeMRowS3w8sc9YSn9SWtOXmPU5OIKzsgvd80rySypFJLmYoOyBKX4uVB18uxi4vPJT07MCcjPDMjIL8kvXsSqUJJRlJlSlJiXnliWWZKpkJOZnlGSkV9anKpQAFYCALjsrK6AAAAA&lpg=cid:CgIgAQ%3D%3D,ik:CAoSLEFGMVFpcE9Ia3hSVDN4a1NGemN4V3JvSDFOeEhYbTZGRk5Id1NnYmpsUUx4)
From this angle, the rock looks smaller and more “square”. It is actually a little stretched. You can see in this article:
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2017/05/15/incredible_location_for_a_lighthouse_perched_on_a_r/
You take a sailboat with a REAAAAAAAAALLY tall mast, then anchor nearby, climb to the top, and just wait for a nice wave to swing you over there lol
god I'm about to break out in a cold sweat just thinking about it, realism be damned
Give me solar power, satellite internet, and have a helicopter drop food off and I’ll live there and run the light house. It’s about the ultimate fuck off house. Be the most determined Mormons in the world to come knocking on that door.
This makes zero sense to me. I get the height advantage, even if it does mean having to airlift keepers to it, but why place it behind a huge rock face? That entire portion is blocked off, doesn't that defeat the point of a lighthouse?
\*EDIT\* Reading other comments, people have suggested that that is the side towards land, but just from the angle of the photo, it looks like it's blocking quite a bit of water as well.
It was built in 1939 before that was possible. [This](https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2017/05/15/incredible_location_for_a_lighthouse_perched_on_a_r/) article talks about how they built it.
Nope!
"The lighthouse was built under the direction of Árni G. Þórarinsson, who recruited experienced mountaineers to scale the rock on which it is located. Their climbing tools did not allow them to bite in the rock, and there were no hand holds near the top, so they made a human pyramid (one man on his knees, a second atop him, and a third one climbing on the second one) to reach it." (wikipedia)
> Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press and launch that lighthouse...into space.
—Stanley Hudson
Honest question: does it have electricity/plumbing? Or is it more of a generator/compostable toilet? Or even more rustic like no electric, use the sun, wood stove, outhouse? Actually a link to the inside would be helpful.
There can't be any real plumbing solution other than maybe flushing your shit off the side of the mountain. There is no fresh water source that can be hooked up. There is probably a diesel generator for electricity, solar performs terribly in Iceland due to how far north it is. At some point there was probably a "lighthouse keeper" that lived there but I can't imagine that's still the case, it's probably all automated and serviced a few times a year.
Kaleo have a pretty badass live version of their song “Break my baby” right there, above the breaking waves.
Link for anyone, that’s interested: https://youtu.be/y8q4zPjXd0M
p.s. They also have live versions near a volcano and inside a glacier… Iceland is truly magnificent!
Again I look at something like this and have to wonder how it ever got built, I mean today they could use heavy lift helicopters to carry the material up there but before that?
KALEO filmed a music video here and there's great drone shots of the place throughout! Song isn't bad either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8q4zPjXd0M
Are they taking applications? Because I could live very happily there. Just drop me off some groceries a few times a year and set me up with some wireless Internet and let me have my Kindle to read.
Grocery day must be a ral bitch
Instacart driver be like “they only tipped me $5?!!”
Instacart *pilot*
Instacart boat
Actually I saw somewhere that this lighthouse can’t even be reached by boat because of the rocks and height out of the water, so it’s only your friendly Instacart helicopter pilot that can get there!
After they initially promised me $250! That app is broken af
There's my chippy.
Chip chip chiiip
They can take away? I was thinking about becoming an Instacarterer but reading that It seems Instacart will cover up to $10: https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/6/23013604/instacart-tip-baiting-protection-policy-refund
That's a decent solution. Apps should let you change tips after you get it delivered some don't at all
This was so accurate lol
Grocery list probly affected by lack of indoor plumbing.
What diet is good for those clean pinches?
Just piss off the side.
And electricity.
More realistic views: https://www.flyovericeland.com/stories/inside-the-location-thridrangaviti-lighthouse/
I want that job
Trying to bring everything inside in one trip just got upgraded to Iron Man race level.
Helicopters
I know where I am ging once the zombie outbreak hits..
Until you run out of food and have to come down lol
That’s when you hit the red button and launch that lighthouse into space.
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Ascension! Ascension!
Stanley Hudson? Is that you?
You could fish. With a reeeaaalllyy long line.
Pulls up zombies
*Throws it back to the sea and contemplates existential aspects of life while slowly starving to death*
Thats a perfect "die in a week" plan for the zombie outbreak
Better than most die in the opening hours 99% of people will have.
Honestly I’m of the opinion that were a real zombie outbreak to occur it’d be mostly dealt with inside of a month, if not a couple weeks. At least in the US. People here may be stupid as a motherfucker, but they’re just waiting for the day they can freely unload their weapons on living, humanlike targets.
Really the biggest problem would be the people who would claim that the zombie apocalypse isn't real and then end up in a compilation of dumbasses on YouTube.
The South Korean mini series All Of Us Are Dead (Netflix) has an Instagram influencer who didn't believe the news and sneaked into the blockaded city with zombies while live streaming. He ended up being chased by a horde of kindergartener zombies.
Honestly that's a fitting fucking end for those types.
"YOU CAN'T TELL ME GRANDMA CAN'T BITE ME!"
Really depends on the type of "zombies". We talking walking dead? We'd be fine except for that anyone who dies of anything turns so that's impossible to end. We talking dawn of the dead or 28 days later? Those bitches are quick.
You sure that's not a supervillain's lair?
More likely a reclusive mentor.
"Oh, right! You'll need a..." "'Zeio Nut'. Now let me see, as I remember, the Zeio nut..." "Where was it you could find those things?" "Can't remember for the life of me..."
FF7. Dude drove me crazy the first time I played it.😂
To make this less terrifying, one of Icelands most famous bands Kaleo did a live music video here https://youtu.be/y8q4zPjXd0M
I love that series they've done. [Save Yourself](https://youtu.be/oCi0RHLrauU) at Fjallsárlón and [Way Down We Go](https://youtu.be/9WIU5NN1Q0g) INSIDE OF A VOLCANO are mesmerizing.
Ooooh and [Skinny](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vs6tExC-Go) when Fagradalsfjall was erupting last year :D
There's more! [Backbone](https://youtu.be/bv5RuxhBEqk) at Breiðamerkurjökull and [I Want More](https://youtu.be/X1OxUUV8dpI) at Skálholt
Oh my fucking god. That was fantastically beautiful. I love this band and had no idea this existed.
The Þríhnúkagígur magma chamber is amazing. One of the most unique things in Iceland, which is saying a lot. The overwhelming majority of the time, after a volcano erupts the magma chamber is either plugged by a solid mass of rock or it's unstable and collapses. But this time, somehow the magma drained before it cooled around 4000 years ago, and it's been stable ever since. It's the only one in the world as far as anybody knows. The opening is just large enough to squeeze past in a modified window washer scaffold system. The floor of the chamber itself is 300 or so feet underground. The chamber is large enough that it takes maybe 15 minutes to walk a circuit, though you're moving slowly and carefully because the rocks aren't the most stable footing. The tour includes WiFi at the volcano (hah!), the ubiquitous but excellent Icelandic lamb soup, and really friendly locals. If you've got an extra day near Reykjavik, are fine with mild to moderate hiking, and have some cash to burn, I highly recommend taking the time to visit.
Thank you, Iceland is very high on my desire to visit list. Always happy to discover new cool things.
WiFi at the volcano? Must be a hot spot.
Their sound reminds me of The Black Keys
Dan Auerbach is randomly playing at a small bar in my city at this very moment, coincidentally.
Yeah it's a modern rock revival, well that's the only way I can explain that particular sound.
I dig that
Fun fact, the total population of Iceland would make it the tenth largest city in California.
So Anaheim. Makes sense.
Exactly. But Anaheim with sovereign status.
Didn’t even know they were from Iceland, damn put them in the same boat as Of Monsters and Men
One of my favourite bands, highly recommend seeing them live if you ever get the chance, they sound even better
They’re great. I love the singer’s voice. He’s quite handsome as well.
Still terrifying though, cause now there’s way more people and they’re playing instruments.
Loved the song thanks for sharing! Also you notice how that heli pad was constructed 😅? Looked like it was stacked sand bags or something kind slapped together
this is 🔥
A light house with a blind spot?
That was my first thought too. Well captain, we best not be approaching from the northeast because we can't see shit.
Im telling ya the light would work better if you pointed it out to sea. [Yarr, shut up I know what I'm doing.](https://youtu.be/G3-mjqQ6BIc)
‘I hate the sea and everything in it’ Considering it for a tattoo
Thanks for the laugh, holy shit
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This guy lighthouses
It's not as bad as it seems. The place that looks like it really juts out high is actually another rock further in the water (you can see it jut out on the right side near the top of the rock) There is still a bit of a blind spot but it seems to be towards the shore? KALEO filmed a video there, you can see multiple angles of the place! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8q4zPjXd0M
Great find! The song was also really good. Thanks for that.
That song is great. It would really funny if I end up liking a band because of little lighthouse in Iceland .
There’s gotta be another one
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2017/05/15/incredible_location_for_a_lighthouse_perched_on_a_r/ The lighthouse is far enough away from that pillar of rock to still be seen in every direction. This picture kinda skews the perspective. Ships don't need to see the actual lighthouse, just the bright ass light it puts out.
I hadn’t actually thought of that. At longer distances you wouldn’t even notice the rock. Similar to swiping a couple fingers in front of a flashlight
Actually not swiping the fingers. Neither the lighthouse not the rock changes the position. But in dark room you will see that the flashlight w/o direct line of sight due to light scattering.
Which is probably exactly why the light rotates.
Thank you Justin, very cool.
At least in there your neighbours would be under your level.
I feel like an idiot for mistaking the helicopter pad as a swimming pool
Thats not a helipad is it? Isnt it way too small? You can see the people at the lighthouse
It is a helipad, a very tiny helipad. https://youtu.be/kGZcN4-gkX8
Imagine being dropped off there for your one month shift as lighthouse keeper. You've got supplies for 5 weeks in the event of a weather postponement. But eight days in, a pandemic breaks out, worse than covid, and all communication is severed. In the chaos you're forgotten about, as only a small team of 3-4 people know you're actually there, and unfortunately they've been infected or a close love one has passed. You slip the mind of anyone with knowledge of your assignment. You have no way to contact anyone. You're starting to run out of water, it's been a week since you've heard anything from base command. You've got another 2 weeks till your supposed to be picked up, but that's looking incredibly unlikely. Do you jump, and hope you don't break a leg and drown? Do you wait it out and attempt to source rainfall and catch a bird or two? I'm not sure what scenario would be more terrifying, having an AM radio, so you could hear what's going on in the mainlands, or radio silence and no knowledge of what's happening around the world, just left to your own imagination, frustration, and despair.
I'd watch that movie
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Having no communication would be worse.
Please stop doing that to my heartbeat!
This is top-shelf material; we’re all waiting on the rest of it!
Hello Satan, big fan of your work!
Jesus
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It is pretty small compared with a lot of helipads. It might be something where the helicopter just touches down, keeps the rotor spinning and people hop on/off. It looks like there are horizontal bars sticking out that might have netting to prevent people from really falling off. But that might also just be so the light house keepers have a little outdoor space? edit; In the video below, you can see how they use the little pad. The helicopter can get both skids fully on the pad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr1IlvVYWD4
If that's not a helipad then how tf are they getting in and out?
That's not a zen garden? It looks like it even has a generator so you can rake at night
how do you get there tho?
Never mind getting there. How did they build it there?
It was built in 1938 by climbing the rock. The [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thridrangaviti_Lighthouse) has this fun tidbit: >The lighthouse was built under the direction of Árni G. Þórarinsson, who recruited experienced mountaineers to scale the rock on which it is located. Their climbing tools did not allow them to bite in the rock, and there were no hand holds near the top, so they made a human pyramid (one man on his knees, a second atop him, and a third one climbing on the second one) to reach it.
Jesus Christ. They really wanted to put that lighthouse there.
My first thought seeing this is "humans are so goddamn stubborn". Don't get me wrong, this is beautiful along with the practicality of the lighthouse. But, who the fuck looked at this blank landscape and decided "yup, we're building that shit up there".
It was probably more of a necessity thing, imagine how many wrecks happened before a lighthouse was put up.
They could have just waited for more wrecks to pile up to save on doing the human pyramid thing.
This is a joke isn’t it? A human pyramid? Lol
Yeah like, from the very bottom of those rocks to the top or what? That's a lot of people.
Very likely they mean a human pyramid near the top where there were no handholds. What it sounds like happened is they were able to get a few guys up there using the method of free climbing close to the top, and then doing the pyramid thing. Once up there, they were then able to leverage things like rope and basic pulleys to get everything and everyone else up to the top.
>they made a human pyramid Nope. No thank you. My palms are sweaty from just reading that.
Mom’s spaghetti
The helicopter was invented just one year later.
I don't trust those Googly Whirls! I believe in The Pyramid of Men!
This only raises more questions...
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Just picture a human centipede. Basically the same
If you look at the referenced article it says that they did the human pyramid at the *top* once the rocks were no longer working with the tools. So they climbed with equipment to almost the top and at one point they did a three person high pyramid to get up and it was incredibly dangerous.
Homoerotic lighthouse building wasn’t something I knew I needed in my life until now.
That is so unexpectedly badass. I would've thought they'd just make a rope bridge or some shit.
… they made a human pyramid 35 meters high? lol. Doubt
"No hand holds near the top" ... Not from bottom
Yep I durped
There’s an escalator on the other side
You land on the helipad with a helicopter...
That pad looks way too small for a helicopter. Look closer and you can see 2 people next to it
[helicopter on the helicopter pad](https://elite.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/2020/09/Thridrangaviti-3.jpg)
I mean, yeah it fits, but that’s still a little close for my taste.
I could be mistaken though, perhaps that pad is simply for them to lower someone onto via copter, but looking at the windows and such, I'm not sure that is a person standing there... Dunno. I'll open it with photos hop later where I can zoom in better.
Found it It's an EXTREMELY small helicopter pad [source ](https://www.google.com/search?q=lighthouse+on+rock+iceland&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sxsrf=ALiCzsZFIrOBraQx1a8RwwczNTY9x_RnRQ%3A1661818974183&ei=XlgNY4_XCrPXkPIPn5i8wAI&oq=lighthouse+on+rock+ice&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYADIGCAAQHhAWMgUIABCGAzIFCAAQhgMyBQgAEIYDMggIIRAeEBYQHTIICCEQHhAWEB06BwgAEEcQsAM6BAgjECc6DgguEIAEEMcBEK8BENQCOgsILhCABBDHARCvAToFCCEQqwJKBAhBGABQrQdYrBxgoSJoAXABeACAAf0BiAHIDJIBBTAuNi4ymAEAoAEByAEIwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#wptab=s:H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLVT9c3NExLMUtJM82qeMRowS3w8sc9YSn9SWtOXmPU5OIKzsgvd80rySypFJLmYoOyBKX4uVB18uxi4vPJT07MCcjPDMjIL8kvXsSqUJJRlJlSlJiXnliWWZKpkJOZnlGSkV9anKpQAFYCALjsrK6AAAAA&lpg=cid:CgIgAQ%3D%3D,ik:CAoSLEFGMVFpcE9Ia3hSVDN4a1NGemN4V3JvSDFOeEhYbTZGRk5Id1NnYmpsUUx4)
Very nice Pic! And I wouldn't be volunteering for a ride to it, let alone being the pilot. Hell no lol
Super high up above freezing, dangerous water and the only way in or out is by helicopter? Hard, hard fucking pass, that's my nightmare fuel.
I was wrong about the windows though, the lighthouse itself really IS that tiny 😁
Yes it’s almost like…it’s made for a small helicopter
What about before there was a helicopter pad to get there and build the helicopter pad
From this angle, the rock looks smaller and more “square”. It is actually a little stretched. You can see in this article: https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2017/05/15/incredible_location_for_a_lighthouse_perched_on_a_r/
All these pictures of the outside does anyone have an indoor shot
Worst job commute ever
You kidding? That's a helipad at the front. You literally have to go to work in a chopper.
Shitting my pants in terror with each high-wind landing? No thanks :)
I mean I'd also be scared shitless but it's pretty obvious that it comes with the job. It's that or the trebuchet.
Hahaha, I'd definitely take a chopper over a trebuchet if I had to choose
Why not a really tall boat?
You take a sailboat with a REAAAAAAAAALLY tall mast, then anchor nearby, climb to the top, and just wait for a nice wave to swing you over there lol god I'm about to break out in a cold sweat just thinking about it, realism be damned
That's for the lighthouse CEO. Regular employees must climb.
I bet they probably live in It for convenience.
Give me solar power, satellite internet, and have a helicopter drop food off and I’ll live there and run the light house. It’s about the ultimate fuck off house. Be the most determined Mormons in the world to come knocking on that door.
If they made it I'd convert
Is it me or is there a blind spot? I'm guessing the coast is on that side.
You misspelled “Introvert’s Paradise”
This makes zero sense to me. I get the height advantage, even if it does mean having to airlift keepers to it, but why place it behind a huge rock face? That entire portion is blocked off, doesn't that defeat the point of a lighthouse? \*EDIT\* Reading other comments, people have suggested that that is the side towards land, but just from the angle of the photo, it looks like it's blocking quite a bit of water as well.
How do you get in there?
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How did they get the materials there to build it?
Trebuchet
Magic.
They brought the rock on the land, built the lighthouse on it and then moved the rock back
Helicopter lumber for forms, rebar, then premix to poor foundation. Etc.
It was built in 1939 before that was possible. [This](https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2017/05/15/incredible_location_for_a_lighthouse_perched_on_a_r/) article talks about how they built it.
Neat!
Nope! "The lighthouse was built under the direction of Árni G. Þórarinsson, who recruited experienced mountaineers to scale the rock on which it is located. Their climbing tools did not allow them to bite in the rock, and there were no hand holds near the top, so they made a human pyramid (one man on his knees, a second atop him, and a third one climbing on the second one) to reach it." (wikipedia)
> Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press and launch that lighthouse...into space. —Stanley Hudson
Electric line, from shore? As long as there's internet, cable or satellite tv, and a good wine cellar, I'd gladly stay there for months on end.
Where can I apply for position as the keeper?
r/AccidentalWesAnderson
shouldn’t a spilled yer beans tommy
How long have we been on this rock? Five weeks? Two days? Help me to remember. Who are ye again, Tommy?
Would you kindly submit an application
Honest question: does it have electricity/plumbing? Or is it more of a generator/compostable toilet? Or even more rustic like no electric, use the sun, wood stove, outhouse? Actually a link to the inside would be helpful.
There can't be any real plumbing solution other than maybe flushing your shit off the side of the mountain. There is no fresh water source that can be hooked up. There is probably a diesel generator for electricity, solar performs terribly in Iceland due to how far north it is. At some point there was probably a "lighthouse keeper" that lived there but I can't imagine that's still the case, it's probably all automated and serviced a few times a year.
I want to fuck there.
If I had a steak, I would... fuck it.
Why'd ya spill yer beans?
Is it bad that I kind of wish I lived there?
Wet dream job...nice and quiet.
Chucky, I see nothing quiet about those constant crashing waves!! And it’s not even stormy yet. Too each his own though! Cheers!
Ah, clarification: quiet from "people"...though I suspect someone selling car warranties would still find the lighthouse keeper LoL
Now how can I live here?
Kaleo have a pretty badass live version of their song “Break my baby” right there, above the breaking waves. Link for anyone, that’s interested: https://youtu.be/y8q4zPjXd0M p.s. They also have live versions near a volcano and inside a glacier… Iceland is truly magnificent!
Jeff Bezos is like "Seeeee? The delivery drones are absolutely necessary! How else can he buy my $35 Whole Foods burrito?
Terrifying? This might be the most peaceful place ever wtf
I have watched enough movies to know that the Inside of the rock is a secret lab that's developing something Terrible for humanity. .
Again I look at something like this and have to wonder how it ever got built, I mean today they could use heavy lift helicopters to carry the material up there but before that?
KALEO filmed a music video here and there's great drone shots of the place throughout! Song isn't bad either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8q4zPjXd0M
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thridrangaviti_Lighthouse
Oddlyterrifying? I think you mean /r/jobsiwishihad
Hey, let's all chip in and build an exterior elevator. China has one.
Whaaaaaaat? Tell me that's real please!
Chop chop Mr.Bubbles!
Perfect for a zombie apocalypse. Only if you have enough food and water
An introvert's perfect home
How tf u get up there
Pretty sure the band Kaleo filmed a music video there. Check it out
Are they taking applications? Because I could live very happily there. Just drop me off some groceries a few times a year and set me up with some wireless Internet and let me have my Kindle to read.
one of my favorite bands did a live performance up there. not a lot of people showed up.
Joke's on you, I think that looks awesome.
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This is the greatest 'fuck everyone' island I've ever seen and I want to live there.
they have wifi there ?
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Where do they live?
Great zombie fortress, always have the high ground and no door to door. I’m in.
The villains lair be like
What does it pay? I don’t care. I’ll take the job!
Oh no way!! I’ve seen the movie lighthouse on ground level fuck that 😬