Climbing Extreme

Finally it’s confirmed. We’re heading to Norway on Thursday with my friend Jari. We’ve allready geared for 15-20 Abalakovs, hundreds of meters of ice and four winter nights in a tent. Can’t really wait to get there.

At some point our plan was to get our selves in to Skibotn valley and climb the Hourglass fall there (see Almost a serious accident article). Since we found some very prominent falls, up to 300 meters high, with much easier access, from Kåfjord valley we’ve changed our plans. Still I feel it kind of tempting to go for Hourglass as well, and perhaps we’ll try that on our way back as well.

I’m going to take plenty of photos and write a detailed trip report once we’ll get back from there. There’s a slight chance that I will post some on the spot thoughts too. Won’t promise though. It might happen that I just don’t want to spoil my time out there on front of computer or writing posts on my mobile.

More information:

• Kåfjord in Wikipedia
• Google maps: Arctic Norway ice
• Picassa web album: Ari / Kåfjord 2008

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