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This is a photography site with a blog. Or vice versa- it's a symbiotic thing. As a photographer (mainly of landscapes) and traveller I've accumulated images and ideas, but never published them. Slide nights are a thing of the past, digital has almost eclipsed film, and individual emails are probably going the way of snail mail.

In an era of often-vacuous social media, spin, alienation and environmental damage think of this site, then, as my piece of vanity publishing. The content will stray from landscape photography to other things, and back. The last thing the world needs is another travel writer, and the last thing the internet needs is another photo gallery, but read on....

The day I went to hell and back

May 17, 2014 • Leave a Comment

On a half day off from skiing in Espedalen, one should visit Helvete (Norwegian for “Hell”) where there is a spectacular canyon carved about 10,000 years ago by a stream running under a glacier. The glaciomorphology is complicated so I won’t repeat it all here. Suffice to say that it is similar to the Blue Mountains or Utah canyons, only better and with a lot of icicles and deep snow in winter. My car has a sticker that says “When hell freezes over I’ll ski that too”, but unfortunately snow shoes are the only sensible way to go to this Hell in winter. The owner of the land on which the canyon is situated refers to himself as the Devil’s Assistant but is quite friendly. Helvete must once have been like Trümmelbachfalle in Switzerland is today- loud, violent and unforgettable.

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