Oct 26 2024
Rysy 🏔️ Overview Rysy is one of the most famous mountains of the High Tatras, rising directly along the border between Poland and Slovakia. Its rugged granite summit massif contains three principal tops, creating an unusual situation in which the mountain’s highest summit lies in Slovakia while its slightly lower northwestern summit forms the highest …
Oct 25 2024
Kriváň 🏔️ Overview Kriváň is one of the most recognizable mountains in Slovakia and one of the great symbolic peaks of Central Europe. Rising to approximately 2,494.7 meters (8,185 feet) in the western High Tatras, its distinctive crooked summit has become almost inseparable from the image of the Slovak mountains themselves. Although Kriváň is not …
Oct 24 2024
Snøhetta 🏔️ Overview Snøhetta is one of Norway’s most important and recognizable mountains. Rising to 2,286 meters (7,500 feet) in the Dovrefjell range, it is the highest mountain in Norway outside Jotunheimen and the dominant summit of Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park. Although considerably lower than Norway’s highest mountain, Galdhøpiggen, Snøhetta possesses exceptional topographic prominence. Its broad, …
Oct 23 2024
Kebnekaise | Giebmegáisi | Sweden’s Highest Mountain 🏔️ Overview Kebnekaise is the highest mountain massif in Sweden and one of the defining landmarks of Swedish Lapland. Rising deep within the northern Scandinavian Mountains, the massif is a landscape of steep ridges, glacial valleys, alpine tundra, exposed rock, and some of Sweden’s most intensively studied glaciers. …
Oct 22 2024
Kaskasatjåkkå | Kaskasatjåkka | Gaskkasčohkka 🏔️ Overview Kaskasatjåkkå is one of the great high mountains of northern Sweden, rising above the glacier-filled Tarfala Valley in Swedish Lapland. Overshadowed internationally by nearby Kebnekaise, it nevertheless belongs among the highest and most impressive summits in the country. The mountain lies in the high-alpine Kebnekaise region of the …
Oct 21 2024
Sielmatjåhkkå | Sielmatjåkkå 🏔️ Overview Sielmatjåhkkå, more commonly written Sielmatjåkka in Swedish and Šielmmáčohkka in Northern Sámi, is a remote 2,004-meter (6,575-foot) mountain in Swedish Lapland. It rises in Kiruna Municipality in Norrbotten County, north of the Kebnekaise massif and deep within one of Sweden’s most spectacular high-alpine landscapes. Although the mountain had long been …
Oct 20 2024
Kåttotjåkkå | Katotjakka 🏔️ Overview Kåttotjåkkå, more commonly written Kåtotjåkka and known in Northern Sámi as Godučohkka, is a high and exceptionally prominent mountain in the far north of Sweden. Rising to approximately 1,991 meters (6,532 feet) above sea level according to widely used mountain references, it stands among the highest major summits in Swedish …
Oct 09 2024
Uranostinden | Urdanostindene Uranostinden, also known as Uranostind and sometimes written Urdanostinden, is one of the most striking high peaks in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains. Rising to 2,157.4 meters (7,078 feet), the mountain is distinguished by its sharply pointed summit, narrow ridges, extensive alpine surroundings, and the Uranosbreen glacier along its eastern side. Although Uranostinden is …
Oct 08 2024
Glittertind | Glittertinden Glittertind—officially known in Norwegian as Glittertinden—is one of the great mountains of Scandinavia. Rising to 2,452 meters (8,045 feet) in Norway’s Jotunheimen region, it is the country’s second-highest mountain, surpassed only by nearby Galdhøpiggen. For generations, however, the question of which mountain was really Norway’s highest was surprisingly complicated. Glittertind once carried …
Oct 08 2024
Galdhøpiggen 🏔️ Overview Galdhøpiggen is the highest mountain in Norway, the Scandinavian Mountains, and all of Northern Europe, rising to 2,469 meters (8,100 feet) above sea level. It stands in the rugged heart of Jotunheimen, a spectacular high-mountain region of glaciers, rocky summits, deep valleys, and alpine lakes in southern Norway. Although Galdhøpiggen is far …
