Gudmundur Gudjonsson lay an agonising ten meters from the woman he wanted to rescue. He could go no further. In front of him was an impenetrable web of collapsed concrete and twisted metal.

Both of them were inside one of Port-Au-Princes’ largest supermarkets, the Caribbean Market. The once four storey building, in the wake of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake,  had flattened like a pancake to no more than three metres high. The woman’s voice, as if from behind a door, made its muffled movement towards Gudjonsson’s ears.

“Please don’t go, please don’t go,” it pleaded. “Stay with me and talk to me.”

Iceland’s low-cost carrier, Iceland Express, will offer a new service between Winnipeg, Manitoba, and London-Gatwick via Reykjavik this summer.
It starts June 12 and tickets are expected to cost £467 return ($700 CDN).
Iceland Express will also offer new services from London Gatwick to New York and Akureyri.
The UK’s second-city, Birmingham, will also have flights to Reykjavik.
The Winnipeg route is one of significance due to the number of Icelanders and Icelandic descendants living in the area.
Iceland Express web site.