Falketind
Sign in to saveFalketind is a mountain in Årdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the Jotunheimen mountain range inside the Utladalen Landscape Protection Area. The mountain is east of the old mountain farm, Vettismorki, and northwest of the lake Tyin.
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- Mountain.name
- Falketind
- Mountain.photo
- Falketind 1985.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- View of the mountain from the east
- Mountain.mapframe zoom
- 10
- Mountain.location
- Vestland, Norway
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 2068
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 201
- Mountain.isolation_km
- 1.8
- Mountain.range
- Jotunheimen
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Stølsnostinden
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 12 July 1820: Christian Peder Bianco Boeck, Baltazar Mathias Keilhau, Ole Urdi
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- Elevation
- 2061.2
- Image
- Falketind 1985.jpg
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- Falketind
- topographic prominence
- 191
- topographic isolation
- 1.8
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Falketind is a mountain in Årdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the Jotunheimen mountain range inside the Utladalen Landscape Protection Area. The mountain is east of the old mountain farm, Vettismorki, and northwest of the lake Tyin.
The 1820 ascent was the first known ascent on an alpine mountain in Norway. A climbing party which included Baltazar Mathias Keilhau and Christian Peder Bianco Boeck went via Snøggeken (Falkbreen) and the northern ridge. At that time the mountain was named Koldedalstinden, but Aasmund Olavsson Vinje renamed the mountain Falketind more than fifty years later. In retrospect, the expedition leading to the first ascent became known as the "discovery of Jotunheimen" (Jotunheimens oppdagelse).
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