Visiting Ålesund and Tafjord

On the road to Ålesund for a short visit to my sisters, we went down the spactacular 60 km valley Romsdalen with the fantastic mountain walls close to the road.

This is the well known "Trollveggen / Troll Wall" where base hoppers and clifhangers are doing extreme sport.

In Tafjord we went by car up to the end of the road in Øvste-Rødalen. A beautiful area with high peaks and waterfalls.

On the way up to the mountains we passed the large dam called Zakariasdammen with a water magasin volume of 70 mill cubic.

From the valley belove we see the dam which is 96 meter high.

On 7 April 1934, a rockslide of about 2,000,000 cubic metres (2,600,000 cu yd) of rock fell off the mountain Langhamaren from a height of about 700 metres (2,300 ft). The rock landed in the Tafjorden which created a local tsunami which killed 40 people living on the shore of the fjord. The waves reached a height of 62 metres (203 ft) near the landslide,