Bid to secure spot for glacier in Icelandic presidential race heats up

Idea Angela Rawlings had a decade ago for Snaefellsjokull has snowballed into a full blown campaign with a team of 50 people

Standing in the shadow of Iceland's Snaefellsjokull, - a 700,000-year-old glacier perched on a volcano and visible to half the country's population on any given day - in 2010, Angela Rawlings was struck by an unconventional thought.

It suddenly just came to me. What if the glacier was president?" said Rawlings. It was a seemingly unorthodox way to push forward a movement that was already swiftly advancing; Ecuador had enshrined legal rights for nature while Mori in New Zealand were working to secure legal personhood for the Whanganui River.