Can I upload iphone photos to a portable external hard drive?

Hey guys, I am going on a 2 month back packing trip in Iceland this summer. I will basically be wilderness camping the entire time and am planning on taking a bunch of photos. I'm a iphoneographer so I can easily see myself taking upwards of 5000 photos on this trip.
My question is this, is there a mobile hard drive that will allow me to upload photos from my phone on to it in the wilderness? I have a bunch of external batteries so I don't see myself running out of charge but I stupidly bought an iPhone 5 with only 16 gbs and I know I'm gonna fill it up way too quickly.
I saw that morphy is going to release a case that adds 16 or 32 gb storage but I would love to try and get other options on the table too choose from.
Thanks folks

I would reccomend, if possible, to bring a computer along. Due to there being no way to directly transfer to an external hard drive, a laptop would be your best bet.

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