Around midsummer I had a chance to do a little
business trip to Hammerfest , which is located in
the very north of Norway Hammerfest is quite long from Paris : You have to get on three different flights, with
layovers in Oslo
A good ten hours later we arrived (local time
10pm) and the sun was shining on full blast with no intention to set at all. After
a beer at the hotel with colleagues, I decided to hit the track towards the
summit of the Tyven (419m) - a peak just ‘above’ the town. This was
around midnight
It was most definitely an out-of-ordinary feeling to go hiking under the midnight sun. After a sharp start, I reached a long plateau where I ran into few reindeers that were wandering around. In the previous year, the reindeers have actually caused a lot of controversy in
Midway through the hike I had to cross several snow patches that were still remaining on the ground, before reaching the final ridge. I got to the top after a good one hour hike, and the views were simply astonishing; snow capped mountains rising from the Norwegian Sea. About twenty minutes and few photos later, it was time to head back to the hotel for a short sleep (after all, I was there for business).
Two days later, after our
meeting, we visited the polar beer museum before getting on the plane back
to France. However, my travel was not ending in Paris. Just enough
time to grab a meal at work and it was time to jump on the train towards home
and the Alps, where the others were already waiting for me!
But what it comes to Norway
