On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Jack Campin wrote:

to try it in Iceland, even with a tent. (You are quite likely to end
up somewhere you'd a need a rock drill to get the pegs in).

Not necessarily, there is plenty of sand, volcanic sand ... try googling
for Skeidararsandur. Then maybe the problem could be jökulhlaup :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6kulhlaup