Climbing the Troll Wall in Norway
It’s funny how your nationality can shape your view of things. Take the practice of clambering over soaking wet rocks on mountain cliffs with no rope or other aid and nothing between you and the valley floor but 1,500m of air.
We British call this “free climbing” and it is rightly considered an extreme sport. The Norwegians, on the other hand, call it "hiking" and wrongly consider it a suitable family activity for a Sunday afternoon.
If British health and safety held sway over Norway, it would close the country down. This would be a pity, because it is quite possibly the most beautiful place on Earth, and nowhere more so than the Romsdal Valley around the little town of Andalsnes, where more than 2,000 peaks jostle together around sparkling fjords.
"I’m climbing the valley’s most incredible sight, the Troll Wall, which is a kilometre-high cliff with an overhang of nearly 50m. Standing at the bottom you feel as if you are gazing up at a monstrous pile of rock that could fall on you at any second. Which it easily could. Rockfalls are not uncommon in summer and some of them measure on the Richter scale. "
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