Jan 25 2025
🏔️ Overview Jotunheimen is the highest and one of the most spectacular mountain regions in Norway. Located in the heart of southern Norway, this rugged highland is filled with sharp summits, glaciers, deep valleys, alpine lakes, waterfalls, and some of the finest hiking and mountaineering terrain in Scandinavia. The name Jotunheimen translates roughly as “Home …
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 …
Oct 08 2023
Store Skagastølstind | Storen Rising to approximately 2,405 meters (7,890 feet) in the wild western mountains of Jotunheimen, Store Skagastølstind—better known simply as Storen—is Norway’s third-highest mountain and one of the most important climbing summits in Scandinavian history. Unlike Galdhøpiggen and Glittertinden, Norway’s two higher mountains, Storen has no ordinary hiking route to the top. …
