What is this?    The Lofoten Islands.    How to travel there?    Where to meet and stay    Freequently asked questions (FAQs). Signing up     Reccomanded links and references.     Invite your friends     Forecast Svolvær in Lofoten

What is this? 

The climbing week of the year will be located in the Lofoten Islands the 1st. week of August 1999.  Climbers from all over the world are invited to join this happening at one of the finest climbingspots one could dream of.   Climbers,  you shouldn't miss this, so make sure you take this week off to join the fun in good company.

The past 3 years some of us dedicated one week of the year for climbing. A week we  are looking forward to all the year till it's suddenly there.  This has been a good tradition that we'd like to continue. This year we would like to invite more climbers to participate in Lofoten this summer.

Some images from previous climbing-weeks:
1998: Bergell, Albigna (Switzerland)
1997: Jotunheimen, Hurrungane (Norway)
1996: Sella & Arco  (Italy)
 
 

Lofoten Islands 

The Lofoten Islands lie off  Norway's northern cost, west of Narvik and 200km north of the Artic Circle. They are a collection of five large and five smaller islands. Heavily glaciated and granitic, these islands offer a wealth of rock-climbing as well as both summer and winter mountaineering.
Climbing here is generally considered to have begun in 1889 with the ascent of "Vågakallen" (942m) by two local fishermen. The long climbing tradition in Lofoten has uncovered numerous perfect granite crags.
Worth noting is the local desire to keep the climbing adventurous. There are no sport climbs here and although bolts do occur from time to time on the crags, their use has been very minimal and the preference has bin to preserve somewhat run out leads.
 
For more information about climbing in Lofoten, see reccomanded links and references
 
 

How to travel there 

        - By car:  About 1400 km (about 900 miles) from Oslo.
        - By sea:   Hurtigruten  Takes you along Norway's beutiful coast  to Svolvær in Lofoten.
        - By plane:  Oslo-Svolvær (in Lofoten).
        - By train.   Further by trainbus or Hurtigruten
        - Getting around in Lofoten with "Lofotbussen" (bus-schedule), and how to get from Svolvær to "Paradiset".
 
 

Where to meet and stay 

We will stay in tent in "Paradiset" (the Paradise) in the middle of a climbing area.
Paradiset.
 
 
Freequently asked questions (FAQs). 

Find answers here!
 

So what are you waiting for. Come along to Lofoten in August!! 

Any climber is welcome to participate. Sign up by contacting:

Anders Flaarønning
E-mail: anders.flaaronning@flaaronning.no
Address: 7234 LER, Norway
Phone: +47 92226757 (mobile phone, which I will bring to Lofoten).
+47 72851501 (work)
+47 72851687 (home Ler)
+47 73536842 (home Trondheim)
+47 72851770 (Fax)
 
Let me know your name, address, e-mail, phone number, how you plan to travel and approxomate dates of trawel.  Climbers who sign up will be added to the list of participants.
This list could be used to co-ordinate transportation, in case you would like to travel together.
 

Climbing information:
Lofoten Island rock climbs
Climbing in Lofoten
Nordnorsk klatreskole
Rock climbing & mountaineering in Lofoten
Stetind

General tourist information:
Lofoten tourist information
Lofoten tourist
Lofoten, die Inseln im Nordmeer
Links about Lofoten
Forecast Svolvær in Lofoten
Lofoten Links Page  new!

Climbing guide for Lofoten
 
(Click on the book to enter the bookstore)
This book is highly reccomanded.  Just get it, and start planning which mountains you would like to climb.