Jostedalsbreen 1994 - A tour over the Jostedal Glacier
These shots are from my trip over Jostedalsbreen in May 1994. The trip was taken by Petter Bjørstad, Erik Jahr, and myself.
The Jostedals Glacier is Europes largest and is located more or less in central Norway. This tour was some 60km in length, most of which was covered in two days.
The trip began at Vetledals seter to the north-west and ended two days later at Lunde to the south.
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This part of the glacier is known as småttene and is a fairly steep climb. At this time of the year the going was fairly smooth, but it can be just a field of crevasses.
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After going up through småttene, we camped for the night at the foot
of Lodalskåpa. In the evening we climbed the remaining 500m to
the top of Lodalskåpa. The view below was at about 10.30pm
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On the second day we set off from the foot of Lodalskåpa, our first
stop was at the summit of Kjenndalskruna with a glorious view
down towards Loenvatn
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After some 45km that day we were nearing the end of our trip, before
leaving the edge of the glacier we paused for a few moments at the top
of a part of the glacier named only by its height - 1648. This is a very
tired but happy Jeremy
catching his breath in the evening sunshine at about 10.00pm.
Hope you enjoyed the trip, I certainly did!
