Trollveggen

The Troll Wall is Europe’s tallest vertical mountain wall and incorporates Europe’s longest climbing route, where adventurous climbers spend the night in the mountain wall.

The wall is part of the Trolltindene mountain range in Rauma in Møre and Romsdal. The wall stretches 1700 metres to the bottom of the valley and there are straight drops of 1000 metres. The mountain called Trolltindeggen pushes 50 metres out from the wall.

Before 1965, no one thought it was possible to ascend the Trollveggen mountain wall, until a group of Norwegian climbers and a separate group of English climbers proved everyone wrong. It took them 14 days to reach the peak using two different routes. Through recent decades several more routes have been scaled during the winter.

The climbing route for the mountain Trollryggen was first conquered in 1958 by Arne Randers Heen and Ralph Høibakk. This was the first climbing route in Norway where the climbers had to spend the night in the mountain wall. Trollryggen is still the longest climbing route in Europe, with approximately 3.5 km of climbing. In 1980 Jorma Oster from Finland jumped off the Troll Wall with a parachute, which in turn attracted the attention of base jumpers from all over the world. During the first two years there were 150 jumps from the Troll Wall until 1986, when after several fatal accidents and dangerous rescue operations, base jumping from the Troll Wall became prohibited.

Trollveggen Café and Visitor’s Centre is situated just below the Troll Wall. The building is quite remarkable, with great panoramic windows towards the Troll Wall. You can watch the film of the dramatic history of the Troll Wall. The Visitor’s Centre also has a souvenir store and viewing platform towards the Troll Wall.

And while you're in the area, you might as well take the 20 min drive to Trollstigen, Norway's most visited tourist road.