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 Norway: Farmhouses of Yri nestled at the mountain's base. Yrifos pouring down from the glacier On somber Lake Olden, lying deep between cloud-covered mountains, below Maelkevold Glacier Rustoifos, as it seems to come out of the sky above Mt. Rustoi's rugged heights A Nordfjord bride and groom with guests and parents at their house door. Brigsdal Perilous Brigsdal Glacier, one of the grandest in all Norway Cavernous mouth of huge Brigsdal glacier where its melting ice forms mountain torrents Among mountains and caverns of ice; enormous crevasses of Brigsdal Glacier Mountain- walled Loen Lake, unrivalled in beauty and grandeur, from Seten farm Lake Loen, fed by glaciers on its cloud-capped mountain shores Tourists crossing rippling Loen Lake; view across to a huge glacier between the heights More Articles About Norway |
( Originally Published 1907 ) Direction—We are now facing pretty nearly south. Surroundings—The ridge on which we were standing with Aabrekke and Eide is behind us at the right. There is now before the cavern more fallen ice than when we saw it from across the valley. Some of those great fragments broke off and crashed on the ground while the photographer was standing here with his camera. Evidently that ice cavern would not be a safe region to explore ! By the way, here is a chance to see the making of just such a moraine or bed of debris as we found turned into farmlands down beside the lake (Positions 67 and 68). If the glacial action keeps on long enough, a big bed of its rock scrapings may accumulate here and gradually become transformed into fertile earth. Geologists say that the very existence of Lake Olden itself is caused by the accumulation of an ancient glacial moraine at the north end of the valley, acting like a dam to hold the valley waters back from the fjord. In order to get some idea of what it would be like to cross such an ice river as this, let us watch our two guides clambering over part of one of the edges close by. |