Rosdalshorn

Out the window to the right, you can now see Romsdalshorn, one of the most famous mountains here in Romsdalen. The mountain stands 1550 meters above sea level. Let's go back to a late summer evening in 1828. There was a wedding in the valley, and two of the guests began boasting wildly about how good they were at climbing mountains. They maybe drank a bit tooo much to fortify courage, and suddenly a bet was made: they would be the first to climb the infamous Romsdalshorn. The next morning, they set out, and when they returned late in the evening, they proudly told how they had climbed Romsdalshorn. There were no cameras at the time, so naturally, no one believed them. The feared mountain retained its title as unclimbed. Fifty years later, Danish mountaineer Carl Hall was determined to be the first to climb Romsdalshorn. On his seventh attempt to reach the top, he finally succeeded. But as he looked over the edge, he could see with his own eyes the cairn that the two local boys had erected fifty years earlier. Carl Hall confirmed the earlier ascent, and for his honesty, he was rewarded with Norway's most famous second ascent, and the route he climbed was named "Hall's Gully."