Skageflå

The farm is a 2 to 4 hour walk from the nearby village of Geiranger, and can also be reached with help of a local sightseeing boat (M/S Geirangerfjord).

The boat takes passengers to a spot on the fjord just below the farm, from where they face a very steep half-hour climb.

[3] Magdalene Thoresen, Henrik Ibsen's mother-in-law, said of the area: This fjord is surrounded by the steepest and, one is almost tempted to say, the most preposterous mountains on the entire west coast.

It is very narrow and has no habitable shore area, for the precipitous heights rise in sheer and rugged strata almost straight out of the water.

There are, however, a few mountain farms here, and of these one or two have such hazardous access, by paths that wind around steep precipices, and by bridges that are fixed to the mountain with iron bolts and rings, that they bear witness in a most striking way to the remarkable powers of invention which the challenges of nature have developed in man.