Torgeir T. Garmo (born 13 March 1941) is a Norwegian hotelier, rock collector, non-fiction writer and politician for the

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parties. Garmo was a member of Lom

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for the Centre Party. In 1979, he quit his membership together with mayor Kristen Brandsar. Ahead of the 1981 Norwegian parliamentary election, the Centre and Liberal parties decided to contest the election through a common list. While each party fielded their independent ballots, one candidate could become a deputy for another party's candidate. The Centre Party's top candidate Lars Velsand warned that the now-Liberal Garmo could be his deputy, instead of the Centre Party's preferred deputies Syver Berge and Maj-Britt Svastuen. This became the actual result. Garmo served as a deputy representative to the

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from

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during the term 1981–1985. He met during 28 days of parliamentary session. He

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his secondary education in 1959, and graduated from the Norwegian Vocational Hotel School in

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in 1964. He took over Fossheim Hotel in Lom, but became an outspoken critic of the local tourism. He instead specialized on a rock collection he had started during the 1960s. In 1985 ''

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'' speculated whether Garmo owned the world's largest rock and mineral collection, which encompassed all known minerals of Norway as well as large quantities of minerals from abroad. The same year, he resigned as hotelier and opened Fossheim Mineral Museum together with his wife, selling rocks and crafting jewelry. Garmo's textbook ''Norsk steinbok'' came in 1983, and was reissued in 1989 by the

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. Out of print for many years, it was updated into ''Norsk mineralbok'' in 2017. He also contributed to the book ''Jotunheimen'', about

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, in a series on Norway's national parks. In 1990 he issued a travel guide book ''Lomsførar for natur og kultur'' on a new publishing house owned by himself, Steinvarp.

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Fossheim Mineral Museum
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