title: Jostedalsbreen: Norway's Largest Glacier
author: Bjorn Wold
description: This book takes you on a journey into the fantastic world of the Jostedalsbreen Glacier. The authors focus on the activities which take place both on and near the glacier. The book devotes may of its pages to the 'art' and techniques of glacier hiking. 
  In addition, the authors provide and introduction to glaciers and how they came about. Weather conditions, geology, and plant and animal life on and near the Jostedalsbreen Glacier are also described and illustrated in striking photographs.
zlib_text: To Jesper, Jens, and Linus
  
  SIGNE
  Ringfjorden, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, 2017
  Nothing stopped the water. You could follow it from the mountain to the
  fjord, from the snow that fell from the clouds and settled on the peaks, to
  the mist that rose above the ocean and again became clouds.
  The glacier grew every single winter; it accumulated snow, every winter
  it grew as it should and every summer it melted, releasing drops, drops
  that became streams, flowing downwards, driven by gravity, and the
  streams joined other streams, becoming waterfalls, rivers.
  We were two villages that shared a mountain and a glacier and we’d had
  them for as long as we could remember. One side of the mountain was a
  vertical wall, where the Sister Falls descended; they crashed straight down
  for 711 meters towards Lake Eide, a deep green body of water after which
  the village Eidesdalen was named and which provided fertile growing
  conditions there for animals and human beings.
  Eidesdalen, Magnus’s village.
  They coul