Galdhøpiggen, Norway

Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	61° 38' 11'' N, 8° 18' 45'' E 61.636429, 8.312562 (Dec Deg) 463566 E 6833871 N, Zone 32 (UTM)
Country	Norway (Highest Point)
State/Province	Innlandet (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Galdhøpiggen":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Galdh├╕piggen at SummitPost.org      Weather for Galdhopiggen at Mountain-Forecast.com      Galdhøpiggen at Summits on the Air (Amateur Radio) Lists that contain Galdhøpiggen:      World Peaks with 1000 km of Isolation (Rank #47)      Europe High Points - Inclusive Grab Bag (Rank #25)      Europe UN Member High Points (Rank #22)      Core Europe Country High Points (Rank #19)      Europe High Points with Iberian Substitution (Rank #19)      Europe Country High Points (Rank #22)      Europe Country Most Prominent Peaks (Rank #9)      Most Isolated Peak of Europe Countries (Rank #4)      Europe Range3 High Points (Rank #21)      Europe Peaks with 200 km of Isolation (Rank #4)      Core Europe 50 Most Prominent Peaks (Rank #10)      UN Member State High Points (Rank #98)      World Peaks with 300 km of Isolation (Rank #47)      World Country High Points (Rank #105)      Core Europe Peaks with 1500 meters of Prominence (Rank #10)      Ultras of Core Europe (Rank #10)      Ultras of non-Alpine Western Europe (Rank #6)      Ultras of Europe (Rank #12)      Norway County High Points (Rank #1)      Norway Peaks with 600 m of Prominence (Rank #1) (Peak is on over 20 lists; Not all shown here.) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Europe's High Points (McKeating, Crolla)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 167      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 155) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      1993-07-17 by Greg Slayden      1999-08-01 by Adam Helman      2000-07-12 by Andrej Gerber      2002-09-05 by Norbert Schaefer      2008-07-10 by Britt Stikvoort      2010-07-29 by Eric Gilbertson      2010-08-27 by El Alpine Club      2010-09-19 by Nick Down      2012-07-10 by Martin Richardson (GPS Track)      2012-07-18 by Jon Colbert      2012-07-29 by Rickard Colliander      2013-07-20 by Caj Svensson (GPS Track)      2013-08-14 by Ken Bartlett      2014-07-07 by Kyle Bretherton (Unsuccessful)      2015-07-04 by A Simmo (GPS Track)      2015-07-11 by Rob Woodall      2015-07-15 by Tom Milliard      2016-07-22 by Aulo Aasmaa      2016-08-19 by Lee Humphries      2018-03-30 by Emma Svensson      2018-07-15 by Josef Nuernberger      2019-07-13 by Luca Baradel (GPS Track)
Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Galdhøpiggen      Elevation Ladder from Galdhøpiggen      Prominence Ladder from Galdhøpiggen
Highest Peak in Scandinavia & Northern Europe

Galdopiggen is a fine rocky peak. View from the north approach (1993-07-17).
Web Map Links	Peakfinder Panorama GeoHack Links   Bing Maps   Google Maps   Open Street Map
Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 2366 m/7762 ft   Optimistic Prominence: 2366 m/7762 ft   Line Parent: Bogda Feng   Key Col: White Sea-Baltic Canal    103 m/338 ft
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 1568.3 km/974.5 mi    Isolation Limit Point: 49.163024, 20.000425 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Kriváň  (SSE)
Ranges	Continent: Europe Range2: Scandinavia-European Arctic (Highest Point) Range3: Scandinavian Mountains (Highest Point) Range4: South Norway Mountains (Highest Point) Range5: Jotunheimen (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Glåma Skagerrak North Sea Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: Jotunheimen Nasjonalpark
First Ascent	July, 1850     Arnesen, Lars     Floten, Ingebrigt     Sulheim, Steinar
Route #1	Snow Climb Trailhead: 1845 m/6053 ft Vertical Gain: 624 m/2047 ft Distance (one way): 5.31 km/3.3 mi
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
Dynamic Map  Galdhøpiggen    Other Peaks Click Here for a Full Screen Map

Other Photos

Highest point in Norway (2016-08-19). Photo by Lee Humphries. Click here for larger-size photo.

This page has been served 30865 times since 2004-11-01.