Sondre Norheim frå Morgedal i Telemark var ein av de store pionerane innan moderne skisport og var delaktig i utviklinga av nytt utstyr, særleg skibindingar og telemarksski.

Vi står på Gaustatoppen. Vi skal lage en film om Telemarkskiens utvikling og har med oss to landslagskjørere. Jeg ser på det proffe skiutstyret til Trym og Mathilde …

One of the questions I’ve gotten the most since moving to Norway is from people traveling to Oslo and wondering where to visit near Oslo to really experience Norway. And it’s always stumped me!That is, until last week, when I realized that the answer was just around the corner from my home – the neighboring town of Rjukan!

And by learning to walk of course I mean learning to ski! Though if I’m calling skiing the Norwegian way of walking I should be referring to cross-country skiing, while this post is actual about the easier yet also more dangerous kind of skiing: alpine.