At 21, Karen Kyllesø skied solo and unsupported to the South Pole — 1,130 km through -40°C, alone for 53 days — becoming the youngest person ever to do it. Raised on skis and hunting trails in Ryfylke, she carried the region's outdoor spirit all the way to Antarctica, then brought it home to Hjelmeland. Voices of the Fjords meets Norway's youngest polar record-holder.
In Voss, a Norwegian mountain town in the Hardanger region, a sheep's-head feast and an extreme-sports week both turn up as murder scenes. Crime writer Randi Fuglehaug, co-creator of the Netflix hit Royalteen, sets her Agnes Tveit trilogy in the fjord town she grew up in - and keeps coming back, book after book, to the landscape and traditions that shaped her.
"If a motif isn't good enough to be worn in twenty years, I don't print it." Kant is thirteen years old, still no discounts, still no trends. Just timeless design, printed by hand, on a colourful street in Stavanger.
Voss announces great skiing conditions. In the small Norwegian town you will find two of the largest ski resorts in western Norway - Voss Resort and Myrkdalen. In addition, there are many other activities to try out for the days you want to rest your feet.
Ekstremsportveko is the world’s largest extreme sports festival, and is hosted every year in Voss, Western Norway. From 26. June – 3. July, top athletes from all around the world, together with thousands of visitors creates the small town of Voss into the extreme sports capital of the world.
What does an unemployed football manager do in a pandemic? Lars Bohinen has gone Viking and explored the mountains and fjords in the Møre and Romsdal County in Norway.
