Tag: mountains

Accidents caused traffic nightmares

Hundreds of vehicles were stuck for hours in a cold traffic jam over the Norwegian mountains on Sunday, after accidents closed the main E134...

Tromsø shines in mid-winter spotlight

PHOTO FEATURE: Norway's northern city of Tromsø was welcoming thousands of visitors last week for its annual Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF). Scenes outside packed...

Most mountain roads open for holiday traffic

Norway's state highway department (Statens vegvesen) reported Tuesday that nearly all the main roads over the mountains of southern Norway were open, making it easier...

Residents wait for another mountain to fall

Residents of a small village in Northern Norway have been evacuated after rocks started falling from the mountainside towering over their farm.On Friday, geologists...

Student killed in fall off ‘Trolltunga’

UPDATED: A foreign student at the University of Bergen fell to her death over the weekend while taking a photo of herself standing on...

New disaster film packs cinemas

UPDATED: Oslo's large Kino Victoria cinema was packed Sunday night as audiences continued to stream into the weekend's premiere showings of an eerily realistic...

Opposition grows to fjord dumping

More than 200 young environmental activists and some top politicians gathered along the scenic Førde Fjord in the mountains of western Norway earlier this week,...

Tourist trouble in the mountains

Heavy snow in the mountains of southern Norway is still causing trouble for hotel- and hytte owners because it's hindering access and preventing hiking and biking on...

Bus accident closed Trollstigen

UPDATED: It happened again on Thursday: A tour bus driver failed to negotiate one of the sharp hairpin turns on Norway's popular County Road...

Missing skiers caught by the weather

UPDATED: After a long Easter weekend with remarkably few accidents, Red Cross search and rescue crews were suddenly confronted with an emergency on Monday:...
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