Storskrymten is a tall mountain in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The top of the mountain is a

tripoint A tripoint, trijunction, triple point, or tri-border area is a geographical point at which the boundaries of three countries or subnational entities meet. There are 175 international tripoints as of 2020. Nearly half are situated in rivers, l ...

for three counties and three municipalities:

Oppdal Municipality is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Dovre region and the traditional district of Orkdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Oppdal (village), village of Oppdal. Other villages in the municipalit ...

(

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

county), Sunndal Municipality (

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

county), and

Lesja Municipality Lesja is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is village of Lesja. Other villages in the municipality include Bjorli, Lesjaskog, ...

(

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county). The nearest urban areas are the village of Sunndalsøra which is located about to the northwest, Dombås which is located about to the south, and Oppdal which is about to the northeast. It is the highest mountain in

county as well as the highest mountain in Sunndal municipality. Less than east of Storskrymten is the mountain ''Litlskrymten'' which means "the little Skrymt". It is located in the Dovrefjell mountains and it is inside the

Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park ( no, Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella nasjonalpark) is a National Park in Norway. It was established in 2002 to replace and enlarge the former Dovrefjell National Park which had been established in 1974. The pa ...

. The mountain

Salhøa Salhøa is a mountain in Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park in Norway. The tall mountain is located on the border between the municipalities of Sunndal in Møre og Romsdal county and Lesja in Innlandet county.Salhøa is reached most eas ...

lies about to the southwest, along the Sunndal- Lesja municipal border. The mountain is surrounded by several other mountains including

and

Grøvudalstinden Grøvudalstinden is a mountain in Lesja Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain lies within Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, about north of the village of Lesja. The mountain is surrounded by several other mountai ...

to the west and Skuleggen to the southeast.

Name

The first element is ''stor'' which means "big" and the last element is the finite form of ''skrymt'' which means "uncanny thing", "fright", or "scare" (the hillsides of the mountain are extremely steep). Dovre-Oppdal-Lesja storskrymten 1985m IMG 9050.JPG, Morgenlys over Storskrumten.jpg, Oppdal skulan Storskrymten 1985m IMG 9038.JPG, Storskrymten Litlskrymten and Grytkollen.jpg,

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