The wave
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The boat is now passing the point where Geirangerfjord meets Synnulvsfjord. The latter continues further into Storfjorden, which in turn extends all the way to the beautiful Sunnmøre coast and the Jugendbyen of Ålesund. If you look North, you will be able to catch a glimpse of Åkernesremna, which has turned these village communities along the fjords upside down. Because, on the mountainside over Åkerneset there is a large part of the mountain that is in danger of breaking away. A landslide here would, in just a few minutes cause Hellesylt, Geiranger and other small villages along the way to be hit by waves of up to 40 metres high. The local community have learned to live with the danger that is literally hanging over them. Today there is a warning system, that is so good that a landslide would be detected well in advance giving the villagers time to evacuate. However, this was not the case in the well know Norwegian disaster movie ‘the wave’ in which the warning system didn’t work as it should and the subsequent landslide caused monster waves that reached all the way up to the Hotel Union in Geiranger.