Every year thousands of people cycle from John O’Groats to Lands End or the other way around. Riding from one side of Britain to the other is one of those cycling challenges that many people have on their bucket list. Yet, in Iceland, a smaller island, no one had ever crossed it from north to south before last year when an American cyclist, Payson McElveen, mades an attempt at being the first person to cross Iceland from coast-to-coast in one go.