The horizontal slab
Rock jutting into space above the flooded valley.
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All three are in south-west Norway and they differ completely in difficulty. **Preikestolen** is the easiest: four hours there and back on a clear path, a long season, and a broad, relatively safe platform โ the right choice for most people. **Kjeragbolten** is six to ten hours with fixed chains to hold, and standing on the boulder itself over a thousand-metre drop with no protection. **Trolltunga** is the longest of the three in both time and distance, and its difficulty is distance and weather rather than danger. With one day and average fitness, take Preikestolen; and if the famous photograph is the goal, know that its price is a full day of walking.
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Trolltunga โ the troll's tongue โ is a horizontal slab of rock jutting into space some seven hundred metres above the lake Ringedalsvatnet, and one of the most reproduced images of Norway in the world. The photograph hides what it takes to reach it. The walk is **twenty-seven to twenty-eight kilometres there and back** with close to eight hundred metres of ascent, and takes eight to twelve continuous hours over uneven rock. The weather on the plateau turns within minutes from sun to fog, cold and rain, even in July. Mountain rescue teams take people off this path every summer, and most of them set out in trainers with a bottle of water expecting a stroll. The unguided season runs roughly from mid-June to mid-September; outside it snow covers the route and a guide and equipment are required. There is no charge for the rock itself, but parking fees are steep. **Do not go without real fitness, mountain clothing, and food and water for the whole day.**
Rock jutting into space above the flooded valley.
Wide bare ground unlike anything below it.
Above Ringedalsvatnet, Odda