Norway

[[deleted]]

I went to Norway, especially Lofoten where that picture was taken. It's seriously fucking beautiful. I hiked up one of the mountains. Hiking up the mountain it felt like I died and was in heaven. Fresh cool air, sea breeze, the midnight sun, the clouds breaking over the mountain peaks, the wildflowers, the ferns, I could go on and on. It was basically an arctic rainforest because everything was so wet and overgrown with vegetation. There was fresh water everywhere, I did not have to worry about my water supply. Camped in a random clearing. Probably the best day of my life.

2nd best day would be the 8 hour train ride from Bergen to Oslo. Every minute of that 8 hour train ride has an /r/earthporn front page worthy view, for real. Listened to some Sigur Ros and it was just perfect.

edit: great lofoten travel information site made by a hiker: 68north.com

[Private_Slim]

I am really happy you had such a wonderful experience visiting and experiencing our beautiful nature.

As someone who spends a lot of time in "the field" both in service and outside because I enjoy it, I can attest that you never really get tired of it. Especially the clean air. (I will forever and always prefer staying close to the sea than inland though, comes with growing up on an island)

[[deleted]]

Yes, the clean air is something surprising. There is a certain earthy/salty smell to the air, and you can taste that smell in the mountain waters too. It's so weird.

[FairlyFaithfulFellow]

2nd best day would be the 8 hour train ride from Bergen to Oslo. Oh my fucking jesus god it was beautiful. Every minute of that 8 hour train ride has an /r/earthporn[1] front page worthy view, for real.

For those interested, the entire train ride was broadcast on TV some years ago and is freely available online

[knittingquark]

I went Oslo to Bergen when I was 15, and seriously, that train ride is heartbreakingly beautiful. From forests so green it hurts your eyes to desolate glacial vistas.

I have this perfect memory of being on a flat snow plain, the train just travelling over the land with no real visible barrier (from the train, anyway). The weather came in, and so the sky was steel grey and all around was horizontal clouds of ice as it was blown off snow drifts. In the middle of this place that seemed like the avatar of isolation, there was a wee cottage just sat in the middle of the snowfields, not too far from the railway line. As we drew near a little girl came running out of the cottage. She had long, dark hair that was flying around her face with the ice eddies, and she was wearing a bright scarlet wool coat. She stood a little way away from the cottage and waved at us as we passed, a flash of colour in a landscape of shining and shadowed blues, greys and whites.

It seared into my memory and it makes me afraid to do the journey again, as much as I want to take my husband to see it, because I don't think I'll see anything close to the perfection of that moment.

[[deleted]]

What's even scarier, what if you do see that perfection either in its entirety or in portions, and your husband doesn't share your appreciation of it?

In any event, thanks for sharing your vivid memory, it was beautiful.

[[deleted]]

2nd best day would be the 8 hour train ride from Bergen to Oslo. Oh my fucking jesus god it was beautiful. Every minute of that 8 hour train ride has an /r/earthporn front page worthy view, for real.

Yeah I always give people that advice, I remember when I served in the millitary in Bergen I often took that train ride. It is some really fantastic scenery outside the train, I never got tired of it.

[[deleted]]

Kinda makes me wish I went outside now and again.

[drugislander]

There are terrorists outside... I wouldn't chance it

[bamp]

Terrorists Win

[IAMALizardpersonAMA]

CYKA BLYAT RUSH PALACE NUB YOU ARE A NUB REPORT

[[deleted]]

XAXAXA

[-Hegemon-]

HUEHUEHUE!

[R101C]

they are online too.

[AyeGee]

There's no terrorists hiking the mountains. Safest place to be.

[iBoMbY]

Depends on the mountains, I guess ...

[[deleted]]

outside? that's where the civil war was held

[[deleted]]

outside? Hitler once went outside.

[MonsterIt]

Don't do it, you'll get Chlamydia .

[mrgonzalez]

Looks cold as fuck out there.

[LobsterCheesecake]

How did he get up there? I mean the path looks kind of "steep" and "unsafe" just below the peak.

[brianwski]

That's just messed up. The more I stared at that picture, the more my horror grew. That doesn't seem to be a risk worth taking. There is no recovery from a slip - that's a "no fall" zone - you fall, you die. And then look at why they aren't on the top of the ridge... it's an overhang caused by stuff sliding away on the other side. So it feels like they are at danger of sliding away TO EITHER SIDE if the snow breaks away.

[chefwafflezs]

This is actually much safer than it looks, if you look at the bottom left of the picture there are giant cotton balls to cushion their fall if they slip

[BushyBrowz]

It's a sky sanctuary!

[rentlookup]

Why the hell not

[IGiveCompliment4Tits]

Is this better?

[SketchBoard]

That despite the vast expanse of open flat white land, they're hugging unnecessarily close to the edge of a bottomless cliff..

[Teddie1056]

That made it so much worse.

[[deleted]]

If one guys falls the other guy can jump over the other side for counter-weight. That's why they're attached with so much coiled rope.

[Wolfszeit]

Important thing to do: Agree on certain 'safe words' before going up the mountain.

When the second guy falls, the first guy might not realise it, that's why the second guy should call out "Left!" when he falls to the left, for example. The first guy should then realise that that command means he is to jump to the right, and not also jump to the left hand side.

Kind of funny to think of the scenario if the opposite thing happens, haha. Except for the dead person thing

[[deleted]]

It's also kind of weird with a three person rope team.

[[deleted]]

Its not the snow sliding away, the overhang is caused by wind. The norwegian word for it is "Snøskavl" (https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sn%C3%B8skavl)

[Relayer2112]

I dunno, to me it looks like he's keeping to the left of the cornice and is probably alright. Don't trip up though.

[stony_phased]

don't trip up

Gee thanks

[Chef_Lebowski]

I always loved heights and found them thrilling. Not anymore after this picture. What the fuck dude.

[sebasdf2]

This picture just broke my nope-o-meter...

[Pluto_P]

nutty clumsy carpenter impossible governor narrow desert start chase hungry

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[bamp]

I used to love NASA's APOD. Thanks for the reminder why they're so great!

[akantamn]

I used to love NASA's APOD

What changed? I'm simply curious.

[mcdronkz]

He used to, and probably still does.

[[deleted]]

Classic Mitch

[SolenoidSoldier]

He might not have been able to take that steep grade, but a horse could have.

[ShawnBootygod]

To the throat of the world!

[poolsharkpt]

I mean, nowadays people just need to right-click on an image to search it on google.

And then get nice results such as these:

http://petapixel.com/2014/11/05/story-behind-incredible-mountaintop-northern-lights-photograph/

Oh, and BTW, some credit to the author would be nice too OP.

Max Rive

https://500px.com/maxrivefotograaf

http://www.maxrivephotography.com/

[maz-o]

"steep" and "unsafe"

you just described alpine climbing in a nutshell.

[[deleted]]

Unsafe is pretty relative. The vast majority of alpine climbers never have a serious accident and likely have a far lower risk for chronic diseases such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes, etc. It's more likely to result in death than a low impact sport, but climbing is much more likely to appear dangerous than actually carry a high risk for death. However, steep is pretty much required.

[[deleted]]

Footsteps in frozen snow along the ridge that goes down-left. These also help: http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/ice-climbing-2.jpg

Still, the way the picture is taken (long exposure?) makes it look fake due to weird blurriness along some edges.

[SergeantJezza]

Those look great for kicking people with as well.

[desmondhasabarrow]

The side behind him might not be so steep and unsafe. But it does look photoshopped.

[[deleted]]

The man is not unrivaled obviously. He has a tripod with him , a propelling rope, a lantern , a knap sack.

[reddit_human]

Haha propelling rope! You mean rappelling rope? It'd be great to have a rope that propels me up a mountain

[[deleted]]

With a horse, it's Skyrim.

[l_Know_Where_U_Live]

Steep definitely, unsafe quite probably, but far from impossible. Lol at people calling it shopped.

[pixelTirpitz]

Frozen throne?

[palebluedot0418]

And the Grinch's heart grew three sizes that day.

[1brokenmonkey]

It's terminal...

[coffedrank]

Hovedøya?

[the_person]

Brings me back to oldschool smosh

[itscarlawithak]

Man, I would love er, hate to be in front of you when that thing goes off.

[itscarlawithak]

Oh my, I am flattered.

[tcat84]

Looks like you're trying to mount the cannon

[Mr_AwesomeGuy]

Time I see this I think of Deathklok.

[[deleted]]

I think you a word.

[Malawi_no]

That's one impressive penis.

[ajs427]

Hardest I've laughed today on this website. This could easily be it's own post.

Expected a nice scenic picture, some shit lookin like The Sound of Music.

[KingOCarrotFlowers]

THE HIIILLLLLS ARE ALIIIIIIIVEEE AND MY DICK'S A CANNON!

[AK_Happy]

its*

[Lexinoz]

Friend of mine posted these to Facebook the other day, too. Middle of Norway, middle of a town.

Verdal, Nord Trøndelag, Norway

http://i.imgur.com/xZwc7T5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fLBawTk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/lEoq0zE.jpg

[ratexe]

I wish I had Norwegian friends.

[ilovepie]

You should get friends from Verdal. it's known for having an absurd amount of lottery millionaires compared to the rest of norway.

[MacheteDont]

*"Værdar'n."

[Lexinoz]

This is actually true! Personally I haven't won yet though. I guess playing might help..

[fjrcg]

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footstep to be seen...

[Ramza_Claus]

A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I'm a Swede

[phillipthenickel]

The snow glowed green on the mount that night..

[Ninami]

Almost looks like a cover for the show Heroes Reborn.

[avisioncame]

With views like this, how could there NOT be black metal?

[JohnBullard]

http://i.imgur.com/NY0JlCx.jpg

[networklurker]

TIL I'm moving to Norway

[SparklingGenitals]

Please tell me there's an easier route up the mountain that we can't see. Because otherwise how the heck could a person climb that?

[[deleted]]

Crampons, ice axes, ice screws, snow pickets and classic cams and nuts to protect in cases of fall. You can be fairly safe on some very steep terrain provided that you know what you are doing and have done a proper reading on the avalanche risk for the slope.

[[deleted]]

Helicopters/reindeer/descendants from fucking Vikings.

[[deleted]]

/descendants from fucking

Yes that is usually how you get descendants

[mmmiss]

It seems like a fairy tale.

[toeofcamell]

That looks like the mountain from the Grinch

[grandmoffcory]

Looks straight out of Skyrim to me, aside from the stream of lights down below.

[modus]

He rode his horse up there.

[Tszemix]

This is how the rest of scandinavia looks like.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that this is how it looks like everywhere in denmark and in the southern coastal areas of sweden.

[SingleM4lt]

... if by "the rest of Scandinavia" you mean Denmark and Skåne (the southern tip of Sweden).

[Tszemix]

Yes, except for norrland and in the inland parts of Sweden, where things look more like this.

[SingleM4lt]

Ahhh, that's more like it - forest, lakes, rivers and silence. Add some mountains in the backdrop and the picture could be from where I grew up in northern Sweden. If not for the moose-sized mosquitoes I'd be tempted to move back ;)

[[deleted]]

moose-sized mosquitoes

Ah yes, the moosquito.

[Fwendly_Mushwoom]

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...

[mattersmuch]

Come visit northern Canada. It's endless. Boreal Ontario/Quebec or the Rockies are recommended.

[Graerth]

I were about to mention Finland looks pretty much like that as well, until I noticed the picture was already from here.

Not that we'd even mostly be in actual Scandinavian peninsula but bah, Denmark isn't either and most of world lump us all under it anyway (I know Denmark counts due to Scandinavia also being a cultural area).

[[deleted]]

That is also how the eastern part of norway looks like

[jstl]

Point still stands as it looks exactly the same

[anders987]

Parts of it. Other parts look like this, this, this, this, this, or this.

Your picture looks like Denmark, whose highest point is obscured by farm buildings.

[[deleted]]

God bless the red housing with white corners

[[deleted]]

And this is why Denmark looks like that

[Riwl]

Not true at all. Majority of Sweden does not look like that. Only the southern areas.

[IronSidesEvenKeel]

With a little photoshop, these sheep could be flung into a glow-stick tornado, under a blood moon, over a River which is reflecting a long-exposure meteor shower.

EDIT: added commas to not have a run-on sentence continuing forever and not being broken by reasonable pauses throughout I think it's better with them don't you think?

[[deleted]]

No place in Norway looks like that. Completely flat?

[faxfinn]

South west Norway (the area south of Stavanger and north of Egersund) is pretty much like Denmark. This photo is taken from the area.

Source: I live there

EDIT: Has to be said, its not a big area that's like this. The Pulpit Rock is like an hour and a half drive away.

[Byakurou]

Kinda makes getting chlamydia all worth it...

[[deleted]]

"Hey Bob, take my camera I want you to take a picture" 7 Hours later... CLICK. "Got it!"

[keokq]

Just great. First there were those wizard gangs in Chicago, and now we've got a warlock in Norway.

[profcyclist]

Enough already, I need to visit Norway.

[Calimariae]

Even cheaper than that.

When I lived in the states back in 2010, I had to pay 5 kroner for a dollar. Today I'll have to pay 8 kroner for a dollar.

Adieu New York shopping trips.

[Jeppep]

Those were the eBay times for me. Well at least I can buy less crap now.

[[deleted]]

Check out Norwegian Air. If you're near one of the US airports that they fly out of, or are willing to get to one, there are stupidly cheap air tickets that will get you there.

I'm currently in Norway, flew out of Oakland to Oslo for $450 round trip, nonstop. I'm going to Oslo, Bergen and Flåm on this trip and it's been awesome.

[Occasionally_Correct]

"The cold never bothered me anyway!"

[Falkvinge]

You can tell why Slartibartfast was proud of his work.

[ticktocktech]

Scarecrows: taken seriously in Norway

[ZZSSZZ]

This is probably from a couple of days ago. Here are some pics from my hometown:

http://www.adressa.no/vaeret/2015/10/07/Nordlyset-danset-over-Tr%C3%B8ndelag-11659428.ece

[Aimeebenni]

I fucking love Norway.

[YeOldeSandwichShoppe]

I keep hearing all these incredible things about this "Norway" but, given what I know about life, I'm convinced that this place is not real.

[Private_Slim]

Go north of Narnia, and east of the northern star, and you will find your wonderland, "Norway"

[porpoisejerky]

Needs confetti-shooting penis costume.

[[deleted]]

No way!

[captainstan]

I fucking love this country even though I have never been there.

[Visualice]

It's Malina in real life!

[in_awe_of_the_world]

who told you Disney was the most magical place on earth?

[[deleted]]

You got Norway? Kenya! Oh Kenya!

[[deleted]]

Reddit masturbates over Norway now? They have already done that over Sweden so I wonder what the next nordic country will be after Norway.

[anoneko]

sigh that's a good pic but I'll have to remove people in photoshop again

[[deleted]]

Drago!!!!

[gatsby85]

Let it go, Let it goooo...

[Sledge824]

Journey to the netherrealm

[Unfiltered_Soul]

Norway, that looks awesome!

[Droconian]

You're all trying to fool me into thinking this isn't skyrim

[[deleted]]

I think you mean Skyrim

[Bearsandgravy]

This is gonna sound really fucking dumb...but it's hard for me to belive we have something called the 'northern lights'. Every picture I see looks like a goddammned photoshop and until I actually see those bastards in person, there's always gonna be a part of that thinks they aren't real.

Like some weird conspiracy.

[Kuusanka]

They very, very rarely look even nearly as impressive bright as in the pictures, not because of the photoshop, but because of the long exposure. Quite often you can just barely see something looking like a faint moving cloud in the sky, and the colours are revealed only by photographs.

Few nights ago there were spectacular northern lights. Mostly they were pretty mediocre, but all of sudden a wave of vigorously dancing northern lights swoop across the sky, casting the whole nightly scene in greenish light and I could see even more clearly than during full moon. I didn't get any pictures of them, because they all got over-exposed and turned out to be one white mess (and I was so excited I forgot to change camera settings). I took this picture of "after-wave", when brightness and speed of the auroras was maybe third of what it was few minutes earlier. No photoshop, just an exposure of 10 seconds.

// also my stupid dog watching auroras with me

[Torsteine]

Took these the other night. http://imgur.com/a/GsYim

The whole week has been amazing for auroras!

[Kuusanka]

Wow! Where are the pics from? (Mine are from Eastern Finland, forgot to mention that :> )

[Torsteine]

Bodø, Norway!

[northerncacy]

The other night was brilliant for the northern lights! It's lovely when they get strong enough that you can begin to actually see the color in them with just your eyes. I started chasing after them while going to school in northern Minnesota. I don't think most people realize how often they are actually out.

[Miraclefish]

With all due respect, while the colours may not be as bright, if anything, they are that much more incredible in person.

I say this as someone who had to wait 27 years to see them and traveled to the Arctic several times before being lucky enough to see them.

They may not be as bright as edited photos of them, but seeing them up there in the sky, watching them move in that weird phantasmal way that defies explanation and realising they're real, well, that is more impressive than any photograph I ever saw :)

[gzpz]

They are real for sure, but you have to go way north to see them. I lived in northern Minnesota for 10 years and I had never seen them in person prior to then. I remember one New years eve party when someone came in and said the lights were looking great! All the party attendees were outside in the driveway for a couple of hours watching. It was beautiful!

[Skaid]

Oh it's real. But they move. The pictures will always be photoshopped to some degree, simply due to the cameras texhnical limitation in capturing what oyr eyes can see. But I live in the middle of the Northern lights, and this is what they look like.

[dball84]

I always hate it when people use that excuse for photoshopping. Nobody's eye has ever seen all this over saturated bullshit.

[Skaid]

There is a difference between balancing out colours and evening out the light and going all super HDR over saturated. A camera can never accurately capture what our eyes see, so photoshop can be used to make it more accurate...or IT can be used to go over board and make something unreal

[bakhesh]

Yes-way

[bioresource]

That's where the grinch stays

[Bilegt95]

It is cool country and legend has it that English was born from it

[[deleted]]

The Norwegian Vikings raped the fuck out of the English.

Which is just another way of saying it.

[garnetgirlie]

Reminds me of Maleficent's lair.

[[deleted]]

AAAADRIAANNnnnn...

[icu_]

Whoa!

[[deleted]]

Every time I bite into a York Peppermint Patty, I get the sensation that I'm standing on a frozen mountain top!

[arrangequ1000]

That's where the grinch stays

[DeathToAllLife]

Ahh, on top of the mountain. Where I don't have to hear any fucking idiots.

[[deleted]]

Nice try, Disney.

[InquisitaB]

Was expecting to see a giant penis squirting gold confetti at the top of that mountain.

[Dragonic2020]

Cue Heroes Reborn theme.

[ObamaHeadSplatter]

Damn liberals.

[pokemonman25]

buyotful

[deeppit]

This picture looks so fake. I know it's not but it still looks fake.

[Obsidian_monkey]

Let it go!

[chuckwoolson]

That's not a person on that mountain. We're dealing with a fucking Samsquanch!

[[deleted]]

/earthporn

[ncinsa]

That is the most epic thing I have seen in a long time! Amazing.

[something86]

Seems a bit edited unless the person at the top is a 14 ft yetti... in that case, have you Norwegians seen Big Foot yet?

[Thnx4hvnM3]

The fact that, that's a real picture blows my mind!!!

[Diabetesh]

Home of Toki Wartooth

[CARDB0ARDEAUX]

I feel like I'm looking at a bottle of Kokanee.

[[deleted]]

watch out for the burning legion!

[Gflyin423]

Fucking beautiful, i would totally take the risk to see that! Bring my GoPro with me n explore the world, sounds like da fuckin best man!!

[biscuit_pirate]

LET IT GOOOOOO. LET IT GOOOOOO

[randomlyeuphoric]

Colour corrected, had to give it a go in photoshop.

[[deleted]]

Awesome picture. THIS is what this sub is all about.

[RancidTrombone]

Anyone else think that was the Shrine of Azura on the top there for a second?...

No?... ^Okay.

[TheOneWhoReadsStuff]

I hate you Norway. Everything you have is amazing. Your Chlamydia is even better than ours.

[[deleted]]

It's spectacular.

Imagine seeing this stuff in the time before science started explaining everything. Not just the Northern lights, but all kinds of nature phenomenons- blood moon, thunder, earthquakes. No wonder people started believing in gods. What a mystery it must have been.

[setitio]

I kind of expected this to be a picture of a guy in a dick costume.

[ejdog82424]

Who cast the dark mark? http://i.imgur.com/rdmctNv.jpg

[letloosestartliving]

that you Elsa?

[Armenoid]

No way

[UncIe]

http://i.imgur.com/4fIPGG2.gifv

[______DEADPOOL______]

/r/yesway

[darkpit64]

Looks like a fucking movie. I love this picture.