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The small village of Geiranger is located in the western part of Norway at the end of the Geiranger Fjord, The fjord is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Geirangelva river ends in the Fossevandring waterfall as it empties into the fjord.
Magdalene Thoresen, Henrik Ibsen's mother-in-law, said of the area: (back in the 19th Century):
This fjord is surrounded by some of the steepest mountains on the entire west coast. It is very narrow and has no habitable shore area, for the precipitous heights rise in sheer and rugged strata almost straight out of the water. Foaming waterfalls plunge into the fjord from jagged peaks. There are, however, a few mountain farms here, and of these one or two have such hazardous access, by paths that wind around steep precipices, and by bridges that are fixed to the mountain with iron bolts and rings, that they bear witness in a most striking way to the remarkable powers of invention which the challenges of nature have developed in man.
Today Geiranger Fjord is one of Norway's most visited tourist sites.
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