Store
Lenangstinden (1625), the Lyngen peninsula,
Norway
Store Lenangstinden (1625) as
seen from Lyngenfjorden. The East summit (1575) to the right.
Store
Jægervasstinden was first climbed by Geoffrey Hastings, William
C. Slingsby, Walter
Perry Haskett-Smith (UK) and Elias Hogrenning (N) in summer 1898. The Lenangentind.
"By far the most impressive section
of the view (from Store
Jægervasstinden) was that
of the Storebotntind, or Lenangentind, which towered grandly above a large and wide snow-field.
The western face of this mountain is bisected by a long trap-dyke, a
very long and narrow snowy highway, which
undoubtedly offered the only probable route up the mountain on this
side, and it looked very savage. The three ridges of the
peak bristled with petrified Trolds, who had been turned to stone for
disobedi- ence in stopping out after sunrise.
What they were supposed to do with themselves during the weeks of the
midnight sun is a question which I cannot answer.
A steamboat on Lyngenfjord was also a pretty sight. But, no more. What a store of happy-memories we
laid upon our ascent of the Lenangentind, the highest and finest
mountain north of the Kjosfjord, and in many
respects our most interesting expedition; and how uncertain was our
success, even to the last! How full of interesting details
was our route! How well Hogrenning cut up, up, up, always up, that
couloir - a couloir which in Southern Norway or
in the Alps would probably never be attempted on account of the danger
of avalanches; in this case nil. How
small we felt when we reached the ridge and were cut off from the top,
as was the case on the ascent of the Dent du
Requin! We reached the summit five minutes before midnight, and had one
of the strangest and most fascinating views
which I have ever seen, of sharp peaks and the midnight sun above a
pall of clouds which enshrouded the lower regions."
William C.
Slingsby: Mountaineering In Arctic Norway, Alpine Journal 1899.
