@danielalford_
Everyone - including the tourist board - calls Innerdalen ‘Norway’s most beautiful valley’. I wanted to go: to get a deeper understanding of what’s so special about it, and what it’s like to live here. Most people who visit do so to climb its famous pyramidal peak, Innerdalstårnet - and after that, they leave. The people I met here were surprised to find I had no interest in climbing the mountain. Instead, I spent my week hiking up the valley sides, finding hidden glacial lakes, streams and upland meadows.
The unique, almost alien, shape of Innerdalstårnet is a distinctive recurring motif in my photos - but what a camera can’t capture is that you can hear waterfalls everywhere in the valley. There are so many of them, and their sound is dominant, especially that of the main cascade, which runs from the glacial lake Storvatnet. Much of the valley is blanketed in pristine woodland and, every now and then, I came across huge boulders, called erratics, covered in thick layers of moss, which had been deposited by retreating glaciers.