It is not an easy way to go! Instead of just hiking, glacier tourists often have to overcome obstacles by climbing ropes over steep rock faces or balancing over narrow bridges. Better you are free from giddiness to do this especially if the hike takes place on one of the rare rainy days in Norway. The rocks a wet and slippery an sunny days too because the fog from the waterfalls along the way settle down on the stones and makes it hard to walk without slips.
However – the is it worth to go, a little adventure that need two hours to bring you up to the Øvre Buerbreen, the longest tongue of the glacier at the elevation of 900 meters. Now you stand right under the wonder of ice thats melt since millions of years. But the most of the ice you see today is only 2.500 years old – at this time the earlier and older glacier was born again after he was melting away.
There is no chance to go nearer to the end of the tongue right before you because the melting water is too deep to reach the other side. But the experience is also impressive enough from the distance: You hear the voice of the ice, an incessant groaning and screaming, and you see the colours of the ice: It's not white, it's more blue, tourquoise and grey and it changes his shades with every sun ray and passing cloud. A wonder of nature, hidden at the high. If you are in Norway, don't miss it.
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