A Week of Winter Wonder: Snowshoeing Finland's Highest Mountain
This tour in the triangle of Finland, Sweden and Norway is a lover's dream. Loneliest winter landscapes, wildly romantic huts and Finland's highest peak.
Few people understand the archaic fascination that emanates from a world beneath a layer of white crystal, which seems to be frozen in sub-zero temperatures. But anyone who has ever trudged through the Finnish winter solitude on snowshoes will be hungry for it. Hungry for the silence, the meditative rhythm of breath and heartbeat, the steady crunching of the powder-soft snow under your snowshoes. This tour is a lover's piece, because the starting point Kilpisjärvi is already at the end of the world. But from here the tour really begins in a world before our time. Every day you get the impression that man is an insignificant anomaly on this planet. How uniquely beautiful the simple can be is shown every evening in the modest but cosy huts that are open to everyone here and in which firewood provides warmth and cosiness, just as it did a hundred years ago. This one-week tour (which can be extended to 10 days at will) is perhaps one of the most intense ways to experience soothing,
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Ein Leben ohne Bergsport ist möglich, aber sinnlos! Berggehen, Mountainbiken, Downhill, Klettersteig oder Weitwanderwege – wenn Höhenmeter mit im Spiel bin, bin ich dabei. Am liebsten, wo niemand ist.
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