National Geographic visits Norway
From the Geirangerfjord. Photo: Terje Rakke/Nordic Life/Fjord Norge AS
Steve Casimiro, a columnist for National Geographic has visited Norway and Sunnmøre. After having tried several open-air activities, he declares Norway to be Europe's new home for all things action.
Casimiro was biking at Godøya, outside Ålesund, with blasting ocean storms welling off the coast. He paddled rolling the North Atlantic swells, and biked the peaks above Molde, hiked fjords and noodled along rivers below the Troll Wall. In Hoddevika near Stad Casimiro tried surfing at head-high waves from the North Sea swells
The columnist wrote about Ålesund and the Sunnmøre Alps which contain some of Norway’s best backcountry. In Geirangerfjord, a UNESCO World Heritage site and perennial favorite of the cruising set, it’s common for ships to offer climbing walls.
Casimiro also caught some midnight sun in Tromsø, the Paris of the North. He went hiking with a Sami reindeer herder near the Lyngen Peninsula, and finished the trip by grabbing hunks of reindeer moss off the ground for dessert!
