Over 4,000 people have successfully climbed Mount Everest. Nearly 400 have summitted K2, the world’s second highest peak, which is dramatically more difficult and dangerous than Everest.
And barely over a dozen people have successfully circumnavigated Iceland in a kayak, even fewer have made it around the sub-arctic island nation kayaking without a partner.
Attempts at that feat are rare thanks to a combination of unpredictable weather, the short summer season, and the unforgiving North Atlantic ocean that surrounds the island on all sides.
Many previous attempts have ended in tragedy. The new documentary, Against the Current, chronicles the efforts of an Icelandic woman, Veiga Grétarsdóttir, as she attempts to become the first person in.