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Feb 10 2025
Hårteigen
Hårteigen 🏔️ Overview Hårteigen is one of the most distinctive mountains on Norway’s vast Hardangervidda plateau. Rising to 1,690 meters (5,545 feet) in Ullensvang Municipality, Vestland, the mountain is instantly recognizable for its broad, nearly flat summit and steep rock walls that rise dramatically above the surrounding high plateau. Although Hårteigen is not exceptionally high …
Feb 10 2025
Juklavasskruna
Juklavasskruna 🏔️ Overview Juklavasskruna is a rugged mountain summit in Kvinnherad Municipality, Vestland, Norway, rising in the spectacular alpine country east of Rosendal and west of the Folgefonna ice cap. With an elevation of approximately 1,453 meters (4,767 feet), it is one of the prominent summits of the Rosendalsalpene (Rosendal Alps), a particularly dramatic part …
Feb 09 2025
Sandfloegga
Sandfloegga Sandfloegga rises above the southern reaches of Norway’s Hardangervidda, a vast high-mountain plateau known for open tundra, lakes, snowfields, wild reindeer, and long stretches of roadless wilderness. At approximately 1,721 meters (5,646 feet) above sea level, Sandfloegga is the highest mountain in Ullensvang Municipality and is commonly regarded as the highest mountain on Hardangervidda …
Feb 09 2025
Folgefonnen
Folgefonnen 🏔️ Overview Folgefonna is a vast glacier complex in the Hardanger region of western Norway, occupying high ground on the Folgefonna Peninsula between the Hardangerfjord and Sørfjorden. The name refers primarily to three separate plateau glaciers—Søndre Folgefonna, Midtre Folgefonna, and Nordre Folgefonna—along with a number of smaller ice bodies. The spelling Folgefonnen can be …
Feb 08 2025
Puncak Mandala: Height, Location, Glaciers & Climbing History
Puncak Mandala | Mandala Peak | Juliana Peak | Julianatop | Aplim Apom Rising above the remote highlands of Indonesian New Guinea, Puncak Mandala is one of the tallest and most geographically important mountains in Oceania. The great limestone massif reaches approximately 4,757–4,760 meters (15,606–15,617 feet) above sea level and dominates the eastern portion of …
Feb 08 2025
Mount Wilhelm
Mount Wilhelm Mount Wilhelm is the highest mountain in Papua New Guinea, rising to 4,509 meters (14,793 feet) in the rugged Bismarck Range. Known locally by names including Enduwa Kombuglu and Kombugl’o Dimbin, the mountain stands near the meeting point of Simbu, Jiwaka, and Madang provinces in the central highlands of New Guinea. Its great …
Feb 08 2025
Central Highlands (New Guinea)
The Central Highlands of New Guinea form a vast landscape of rugged mountains, elevated valleys, cloud forests, grasslands, wetlands, and densely settled agricultural basins in the interior of Papua New Guinea. The region contains some of the highest mountains in the Pacific, including Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea’s highest summit at 4,509 meters (14,793 feet). …
Feb 08 2025
Montagne de sous Dîne
Montagne de sous Dîne 🏔️ Overview Montagne de Sous-Dîne is a broad limestone mountain in the Bornes Massif of Haute-Savoie, France. Rising to about 2,004 meters (6,575 feet), it stands above the Fillière valley and the Genevois region northwest of the higher central Alps. Rather than forming a sharp pyramidal summit, Sous-Dîne is characterized by …
Feb 08 2025
Crêt de la Neige
Crêt de la Neige Crêt de la Neige rises along the Haute Chaîne of the Jura Mountains in eastern France, overlooking the Pays de Gex, the Valserine Valley, Lake Geneva, and the distant Alps. Although its rounded, wooded summit ridge is less dramatic than many Alpine peaks, Crêt de la Neige is geographically important: it …
Feb 08 2025
Jura Mountains
🏔️ Overview The Jura Mountains are a long, curving mountain range extending along the borderlands of France and Switzerland, northwest of the Alps. Stretching for roughly 360 kilometers (224 miles) between the Rhine and Rhône regions, the Jura are characterized by long forested ridges, limestone cliffs, high pastures, deep valleys, caves, springs, and striking karst …
