Norway - Lysefjorden 3 - Preikestolen

Around the Lysefjord (3): Preikestolhytta - Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock)

Audio: "IV. Notturno" from Lyric Pieces opus 54, composed by Edvard Grieg

This video is part of my "Around the Lysefjord" ("Lysefjorden Rundt") playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8EA5222712CDB1CD&feature=view_all
and described on my travel blog http://www.sandalsand.net/norway-the-lysefjord-3-preikestolen-pulpit-rock/


LES OM TUREN PÅ NORSK: http://www.norge.sandalsand.net/lysefjorden-3-preikestolen/

Lonely Planet published in 2011 "1000 Ultimate Sights". On top of its list of "Most Breathtaking Viewing Platforms" comes the Pulpit Rock.

Here is an extract:

"Sometimes it's best to leave it to nature. While glass floors and skyscrapers can be impressive, in Norway, it's a mighty lump of stone that offers the best outlook. Preikestolen — Pulpit Rock — looms 604m above Lysefjord, one of myriad incisions along Norway's west coast. There are mountains aplenty hereabouts, but this summit seems built for purpose: its almost perfectly flat top juts out over the water (no safety barriers here), commanding uninterrupted, if vertiginous, views. Scarier still, peer down the cracks in Preikestolen's surface — caused by 10,000 years of glacial action — and hope no new ones form just then..."