National Geographic Traveller (UK)
24 HEAD OUT INTO THE WILD IN JOTUNHEIMEN NATIONAL PARK
Jotunheimen is Norway’s magnum opus.
The ‘home of the giants’ is precisely that: a 444sq-mile national park capped by the country’s two highest peaks — 8,100ft Galdhøpiggen and 8,087ft Glittertind — which loom high above fjords, glaciers, waterfalls and lakes of bluest blue.
Come summer or winter, this isn’t a landscape to observe — it’s one to embrace with abandon: hiking to sky-high summits, staying in remote cabins after backcountry skiing, catching glimpses of reindeer, elk and wolverine, and wild camping at trail’s end under the white spray of the Milky Way. jotunheimen.com