A TEAM of students and teachers from Fulford School, in York, has returned from their Survivor-style 100-mile expedition across Iceland.

A group of 11 geography students and five teachers took part in a trek across the barren landscape of Iceland, walking ten miles a day between isolated huts, past bubbling mud springs and across glacial rivers.

Geography teacher Peter Hickling said: "It was a fantastic experience. The walking, the landscape and the company of the group was fabulous.

"I teach about volcanic landscapes and can look at them in text books and show photos but to go there and experience walking across lava flows was fantastic."

"We got on very well and were living quite a basic life.

"It was quite hard for some of them carrying the very heavy rucksacks."

He said food had added to the weight, but admitted their diet had been limited.

"There was lots of porridge and pasta and dehydrated foods, and we drank some water from a glacial river."

Updated: 10:58 Thursday, August 16, 2001