Turtagrø

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Turtagrø

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Turtagrø, the new hotel building from 2002
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Location Luster, Norway
Opening 1888
Website
http://www.turtagro.no/

Turtagrø is a hotel in the municipality of Luster in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway, near Hurrungane in Jotunheimen. The hotel has been a central meeting place for mountaineers from the late 1800s.

Luster, Norway Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Luster is a municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located at the end of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative centre is the village of Gaupne. Other villages in Luster include Fortun, Hafslo, Indre Hafslo, Jostedal, Luster, Nes, Ornes, Skjolden, Solvorn, and Veitastrond.

Sogn og Fjordane County (fylke) of Norway

Sogn og Fjordane is a county in western Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland. The county administration is in the village of Hermansverk in Leikanger municipality. The largest town in the county is Førde.

Hurrungane mountain range

Hurrungane is a mountain range in the municipalities Luster and Årdal in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. The area is southwest in the larger mountain range Jotunheimen and is also part of Jotunheimen National Park.

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Location

Turtagrø is located near the old mountain route and current road Sognefjellsvegen, north of Hurrungane in Jotunheimen. [1] It can be a starting point for hiking tours to Fannaråken, Skogadalsbøen and the peaks and ridges of Hurrungane, including climbing the Store Skagastølstind. [2] [3]

Sognefjellsvegen mountain pass

The Sognefjellsvegen or Sognefjellsveien is the highest mountain pass road in Northern Europe. Part of County Road 55, it is located in Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane counties in Norway. It is a national tourist road and starts in the village of Lom in the municipality of Lom, it then travels over the Sognefjell mountain area, and it ends in the village of Gaupne in the municipality of Luster. The road was opened on 16 July 1938. The road passes through the Jotunheimen, Hurrungane, and Breheimen mountains. The highest point is Fantesteinen at 1,434 metres (4,705 ft). During the winters there is a lot of snow, and so the road is closed from November through May. The road passes between Jotunheimen National Park and Breheimen National Park.

Skogadalsbøen is a cabin in Luster in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, in the western part of Jotunheimen, owned by the Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT). The cabin lies 834 metres above sea level, in the valley Utladalen. The site was originally the location of several summer mountain farms. The tourist cabin was built in 1888 and originally had 12 beds; today there are 109 beds.

Store Skagastølstind mountain

Store Skagastølstind is the third highest peak in Norway. It is situated on the border between the municipality of Luster and Årdal in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The 2,405-metre (7,890 ft) mountain is part of the Hurrungane range. The mountains Vetle Skagastølstind and Midtre Skagastølstind lie immediately to the north of this mountain and the mountains Sentraltind and Jervvasstind lie immediately to the east of this mountain.

History

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The old annex from 1888, (the hotel built by Øiene)

The first hotel at Turtagrø was built in 1888 by mountain guide Ola Berge. Later the same year a second hotel was built by Ole Øiene, only 100 metres apart. Turtagrø was a central meeting place for the pioneers of mountaineering in Jotunheimen from the late 1800s, and among the early visitors were William Cecil Slingsby, Howard Priestman and Carl Hall. The two hotels merged in 1911, when Berge bought the other hotel from Øiene. After Berge's death in 1928, his daughter Kari Berge was running the hotel. [4] The road Sognefjellsvegen, which passes Turtagrø, was finished in 1938. In 1938 the climbing association Norsk Tindeklub also built their own cabin in Skagadalen, and these events eventually contributed to a change in Turtagrø's role and the type of visitors. [5]

Mountaineering sport of mountain climbing

Mountaineering is the set of activities that involves ascending mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, hiking, skiing, and traversing via ferratas. Indoor climbing, sport climbing and bouldering are usually considered mountaineering as well.

William Cecil Slingsby (1849–1929) was an English mountain climber and alpine explorer from Carleton, North Yorkshire. Born in Bell Busk, near Gargrave, Yorkshire, Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and fell in love with the country. He has been called the discoverer of the Norwegian mountains, and the father of Norwegian mountaineering. Together with Norway's early skilled mountain climber Kristian Bing (1862-1935), he is considered to have been a pioneer explorer of Jostedalsbreen, the largest glacier in continental Europe.

Norsk Tindeklub

Norsk Tindeklub is a Norwegian mountaineering association. The club was founded in 1908. The association issues climbing guides and mountaineering books. The club has issued several jubilee books in the series Norsk Fjellsport. The club has three cabins, in Skagadalen (Hurrungane), Vengedalen (Romsdalen) and Flatvaddalen (Innerdalen).

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Turtagrø and Sognefjellsvegen.
Skagadalen and Hurrungane, viewed from Turtagro. DSC 3026opt.jpg
Skagadalen and Hurrungane, viewed from Turtagrø.

On 28 April 1940, during the closing days of the Norwegian Campaign in South Norway, German prisoners of war from the Norwegian 2nd Division's abandoned Lom prisoner of war camp and their guards arrived at Turtagrø. The prisoners and guards spent the night at Turtagrø on their way west to Vadheim in Sogn. The weakest of the prisoners were left under guard at the hotel, later to be retrieved by snow sleds. [6]

Norwegian Campaign Second World War campaign fought in Norway

The Norwegian Campaign was the attempted Allied liberation of the Scandinavian nation of Norway from Nazi Germany during the early stages of World War II and directly following the German invasion and occupation of the Norwegian mainland and government. It took place from April 9, 1940, until June 10, 1940. The Allied campaign did not succeed, and it resulted in the fleeing of King Haakon VII along with the remainder of the royal family to Great Britain.

South Norway

South Norway is the southern and by far most populous half of Norway, consisting of the regions of Western Norway, Eastern Norway, Southern Norway (Agder) and Trøndelag.

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A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates to 1660.

From 1953 the hotel was run by Johannes Drægni. In 1962 Drægni established the first climbing school in Norway, Den Norske Klatreskole, [7] at Turtagrø. [8] The climbing school operated until 1975. [8] Ole Berge Drægni was running the hotel from 1997. [9] In 2001 the old main building burned down in a fire. A new hotel building opened in 2002. [10] [11] Ole Berge Drægni perished in the tsunami in Thailand in 2004, and his then four-year-old daughter Sofie inherited the majority of the stocks. [11] [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Evensen, Knut Harald, ed. (2006). NAF Veibok 2007-2009 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norges Automobil-Forbund. p. 369.
  2. ↑ Bloch-Hoell, Niels, ed. (2005). Til fots i Norge (in Norwegian). Oslo: Den norske Turistforening. pp. 184–205.
  3. ↑ Thommessen; Skogheim; Kuyper 1995, pp. 44-45, 59-60
  4. ↑ Thommessen; Skogheim; Kuyper 1995, p. 59-60
  5. ↑ Lauritzen 1997, p. 68-69
  6. ↑ Mølmen 1996, p. 327
  7. ↑ Thommessen; Skogheim; Kuyper 1995, p. 59-60
  8. 1 2 "NKFs historie" (in Norwegian). Norges Klatreforbund. Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  9. ↑ Lauritzen 1997, p. 68-69
  10. ↑ "Turtagrø". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
  11. 1 2 "Turtagrø. Historie" (in Norwegian). Turtagrø Hotel. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
  12. ↑ Viki, Kaia Johnsen; Hjetland, Geir Bjarte. "Sofie var fire år då pappa døydde i tsunamien – no blir ho 18 og fører arven vidare". NRK (in Norwegian). Retrieved 22 July 2018.

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