Feb 11 2025
Melderskin 🏔️ Overview Melderskin is a prominent mountain rising above the village of Rosendal in Kvinnherad Municipality, Vestland, western Norway. Reaching 1,426 meters (4,678 feet) above sea level, the mountain forms part of the Scandinavian Mountains and stands within the dramatic landscape surrounding Folgefonna National Park. Although Melderskin is modest in elevation compared with Norway’s …
Feb 10 2025
Hardangerjøkulen 🏔️ Overview Hardangerjøkulen is a broad plateau glacier in southern Norway, occupying the northern edge of the Hardangervidda highlands in Vestland county. Shared between the municipalities of Ulvik and Eidfjord, it is one of the largest surviving ice masses in mainland Norway and an important landmark of the Scandinavian mountain landscape. The Norwegian Water …
Jan 05 2025
Stølsnostind 🏔️ Overview Stølsnostind, also commonly written Stølsnostinden, is a striking alpine mountain in the western part of Norway’s Jotunheimen region. Rising to 2,074 meters (6,804 feet) above sea level, the mountain stands in Årdal Municipality in Vestland and is one of the highest summits in the Utladalen Protected Landscape. Stølsnostind rises between Fleskedalen and …
Dec 25 2024
Hjelledalstinden | Hjelledalstind 🏔️ Overview Hjelledalstinden is a rugged mountain in the southwestern part of Norway’s Jotunheimen region, rising to 1,989 meters (6,526 feet) above sea level. Located in Årdal Municipality in Vestland county, the mountain forms a dramatic part of the high-alpine landscape surrounding Morka-Koldedalen and stands directly south of the better-known Falketind. Although …
Dec 24 2024
Visbreatinden 🏔️ Overview Visbreatinden is a rugged 2,234.9-meter (7,332-foot) mountain in the heart of Jotunheimen, Norway’s highest mountain region. Located in Lom Municipality in Innlandet county, the peak rises within Jotunheimen National Park amid an impressive concentration of high summits, glaciers, rocky ridges, and alpine valleys. Although Visbreatinden is overshadowed in fame by nearby giants …
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 …
