Portfolio: Ryan Southwell Over Iceland

“It’s hard for your brain to actually realise this is real and not just something that you’re seeing on a screen,” the filmmaker and paramotor pilot Ryan Southwell explains. “It’s that fantastic. It blows your mind so much. Five minutes ago you couldn’t believe what you just saw, but what’s in front of you is maybe even more amazing. And that keeps happening – over and over and over again.”

Welcome to Iceland. The land of Norse gods, glaciated mountains and temperamental (and unpronounceable) volcanoes, Iceland does rugged beauty like nowhere else. Its natural wonders, waterfalls, hot springs and mountains have been used as backdrops in Bond and Star Wars films alike as well as Game of Thrones.

As a paramotoring destination, it delivers like nowhere else, says Ryan, reflecting on his fourth paramotoring trip to the country. “You start to wonder,...