The competition has closed and the team at 66°North is delighted to announce we have chosen one lucky subscriber to fly to Iceland with Icelandair. The first prize winner is Mr. James M. Hutchison from USA. Two other subscribers have won our award-winning Snæfell Jacket and our popular Vik hooded Jacket. The winners are Joanne Duggan from the UK and Cindy O' Dwyer from the Netherlands.

A new jacket from 66°NORTH, Eldborg, was nominated in January in one of the most prestigious competitions held among manufacturers of outdoor wear. The ISPO Award is held in connection with the ISPO show in Munich, Germany - the largest of its kind in the outdoor and sportswear industry. ound in Iceland.

The Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal spent the last weekend in Iceland. Mr. Gyllenhaal has starred in a number of movies, among the Brothers, where he was in one of the leading roles with Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman. Sigurjon Sighvatsson was the producer of the movie, and the actors got to know 66°NORTH outdoors clothes while shooting the film.

Editor of the KCK magazine wears 66°NORTH

ispo, one of the biggest international trade fairs for sporting and outdoor goods, is now in full swing in München Germany.  Ispo annually honours the most innovative products for the outdoor sector with ispo Outdoor Awards. The best new products for the next season are honoured with this award.

Growth reaches 30% in the first three months - brand becoming better known

The German magazine TZ ran a feature about outdoor clothes in its most recent volume. There, it selected the outdoor clothing garment of the week, and this time they chose the Vindur jacket from 66°NORTH

On October 7th 2010, 66°NORTH celebrated the official opening of its first shop-in-shop outlet in Gigasport's Innsbruck branch.

Dhani Jones travel host and US football star wears the 66°NORTH Glymur jacket when trekking in Nepal.

Dhani Jones will need more than shoulder pads where he's going. This NFL linebacker and Renaissance man is about to embark on a global sports odyssey that will take him anywhere with a scoreboard

The Icelandic athletes competing at the Winter Olympics from February 12-18 in Vancouver will be wearing clothes from 66°North.

Every year, 66°North gives out two expedition grants worth 500,000 ISK each to individuals or groups. The grants are both clothes for the expedition, and money up to 200,000 ISK.

66°North has been introducing its new summer collection during the past month. The collection has gotten great reviews especially at the OutDoor trade show in Friedrichshafen Germany.

Winners in our Urdur web quiz have been chosen and will be contacted soon. Our Urdur children’s line is unique. The special fabric may look like cotton but it’s actually fleece. This means your child is insulated from the cold in clothing that is breathable and fast-drying when wet.

This sunday the Obama Inaugural Celebration was held at the Lincoln Memorial. It was a cold day in Washington but spectators dressed warmly to keep the cold out.

66°North and Icelandic Mountain Guides offer an extensive and realistic training plan, Reach The Top with 66°North, that should make it possible for most people to reach the highest summit of Iceland, Hvannadalshnukur in southern Vatnajökull glacier (height 2110 m or 6920 feet).

66°North has for years been a leader in the making of high quality outdoor wear, and because of that, has been approached by many with a request for support of an expedition.

On October 20, 2008, 66˚North co-hosted Conflict of Interest X, the opening party to mark the start of the 28th annual CMJ Music Marathon in New York City.66˚North decked out a room at Conflict of Interest X with an Icelandic, cold weather theme.

Mel Gibson was recently on holiday in Iceland with his two sons.He was spotted wearing a black Tindur Technical jacket while playing golf. Gibson is not the only celebrity that is a fan of our products. Quentin Tarantino, Jake Gyllenhaal and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, among others, have recently been spotted wearing 66°NORTH clothing.

130 reached the top of Hvannadalshnjukur on May 31st, and 80 more climbed the peak on June 14th.

Last Saturday, 150 participants from the programme “Reach The Top With 66°NORTH” climbed the Snaefellsjokull Glacier (1446 m/ 4740 feet). Snaefellsjokull was the first of three glaciers the group will climb, in preparations for climbing Hvannadalshnjukur, Iceland’s highest peak, at the beginning of summer.

The team at 66°NORTH is exceptionally busy at the moment as it prepares to present its new winter collection to the international market. Over the next few weeks, 66°NORTH will attend three outdoor activity expositions; the OR expo in Salt Lake City, Utah, the ISPO in Munich, Germany, and the SIA show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

California state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver will receive outdoor wear from 66°NORTH as Christmas gifts. A Hollywood costume designer who is an acquaintance of Sigurjon Sighvatsson, a movie producer and co-owner of 66°NORTH, contacted him recently when she found it difficult to source a down parka in a size she needed. The parka which had to be large, was meant to be a Christmas present for the Terminator actor himself.

66°NORTH provides outerwear for the upcoming Imax movie, Journey to the Center of the Earth, staring Brendan Fraser. It is to be released in June 2008. The New Line Cinema version of the Jules Verne classic will feature our Glymur Women's Softshell as well as backpacks.

66°NORTH has founded 66°NORTH USA, a wholly owned subsidiary, to handle the affairs of the company in the North American market. In the past five years, the company had an American distributor, who took care of distribution and sales in the USA and Canada. 66°NORTH has decided not to continue that arrangement, and instead to open a dedicated subsidiary with offices in New York.

5 Peaks is a group of people who are going to walk to the highest peak in each section of Iceland (total of 5 peaks) in just one weekend to raise money for Sjónarhóll a centre for children with long term diseases and disabilities and their parents. No one in the group is an experienced mountain climber so this is a very challenging mission.

Five garments from 66°NORTH are nominated for the Polartec® APEX award 2007. Polartec® congratulates 66°NORTH and their designers with this acknowledgement.

The annual advertising contest of IMARK (Iceland’s Association of Marketing Professionals) was held on March 2nd. Two advertisements from 66°NORTH were nominated: The ad “Cold War” in the newspaper category, and “Patreksfjordur” in the magazine category. This is the third consecutive year that the current advertising campaign has been nominated in the contest. All in all, it has been nominated twelve times and has received five prizes.

Polartec, the world’s leading manufacturer of fleece fabric, has introduced a revolutionary new product: The corn-oil fleece. Polartec has teamed with the Icelandic outdoor wear company 66°NORTH for the international introduction of the new fabric.

On January 18, 2007, the Prime Minister of Iceland, Geir Haarde, presented the Icelandic Website Awards at an elegant gathering in the old Idno Theater in downtown Reykjavik. The 66°NORTH website was nominated for the award. We would like to congratulate those who participated in creating the 66°NORTH web for this achievement, and thank them for a successful collaboration.