Prince Harry returns to Iceland for a spot of fishing
PRINCE Harry spent a couple of days salmon fishing in Iceland only weeks after going to the country to train for a South Pole expedition.
The fourth in line to the throne returned to the country on a private trip a few days ago during his summer leave from the Army Air Corps.
He spent two days fishing on the Langa river and caught a few salmon, according to the Icelanding fishing website Vötn og veiði.
His trip came a few weeks after an earlier visit to Iceland in July during which he joined actor Dominic West, 43, star of The Wire, on a gruelling exercise training for an Antarctic expedition with wounded servicemen and women from the organisation Walking With The Wounded.
A royal source confirmed that Harry had been in the country. "He was there with Walking With The Wounded earlier. This was a separate private trip," the source said.
It's not the first time a member of the Royal Family has travelled to Iceland on a fishing trip. Harry's father, Prince Charles, has been there several times to go salmon fishing.
Earlier this summer, Harry, 28, visited Iceland from July 7 to 10 to join Walking With The Wounded's Team Glenfiddich on an exercise tackling ice and snow on the Langjokull Glacier, the country's second largest, to prepare them for for the South Pole trek in November.
They trekked for nearly 10 hours a day on skis while dragging heavy sleds loaded with supplies.
Harry plans to join the Glenfiddich team on the trek, racing against two other teams, one from the United States and one from the Commonwealth.
All three teams are training intensively now for the challenge. "I think it's really hitting home now how much, physically and mentally, they have to do," said a Walking With The Wounded spokesman.
And Harry? "He's definitely training. He's not sitting on his bum doing nothing."