Falketind is a

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Årdal Municipality Årdal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located at the end of the Årdalsfjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Årdalstangen is the administrative center of the municipality. The other main village is Ø ...

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county,

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. It is located in the Jotunheimen mountain range inside the

Utladalen Landscape Protection Area Utladalen Landscape Protection Area ( no, Utladalen landskapsvernområde) is adjacent to Jotunheimen National Park, covering Utladalen, Norway's deepest valley. It is located about northeast of Øvre Årdal in the municipality of Årdal in Vestl ...

. The mountain is east of the old mountain farm,

Vettismorki Vettismorki is an old mountain farm located just above the waterfall Vettisfossen in the Utladalen valley in Årdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is north of the Vetti farm, and northeast of the village of Øvre Årdal. Today, V ...

, and northwest of the lake Tyin. The 1820 ascent was the first known ascent on an alpine mountain in Norway. A climbing party which included

Baltazar Mathias Keilhau Balthazar Mathias Keilhau (2 November 1797 – 1 January 1858) was a Norwegian geologist and mountain pioneer. He is regarded as the founder of the discipline of geology in Norway, and has also been credited for the discovery of the Jotunheim ...

and

Christian Peder Bianco Boeck Christian Peder Bianco Boeck (September 5, 1798 – July 11, 1877) was a Norwegian doctor, zoologist, botanist and mountaineer. He is most associated with his catalog of approved drugs, ''Pharmacopoea Norvegica'' (1854) and with his studies of ...

went via Snøggeken (Falkbreen) and the northern ridge. At that time the mountain was named ''Koldedalstinden'', but Aasmund Olavsson Vinje renamed the mountain ''Falketind'' more than fifty years later. In retrospect, the expedition leading to the first ascent became known as the "discovery of Jotunheimen" (''Jotunheimens oppdagelse'').

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The first element is ''falk'' which means "

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" and the last element is ''tind'' which means "

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Falketind in Norrona Magazine
Årdal Mountains of Vestland {{Vestland-mountain-stub

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