Helldalisen

Arrange a boat from Nordfold across Vinkfjorden to Sandbakken, a former settlement now used only for holiday homes (local boatmen have run this trip; nordfold.no also mentions the express boat). From the quay walk a few hundred metres up the road towards Lappvatnet, where a sign points right to Helldalisen, and head for the rightmost river on the flank east of Basunen. A faint path on the left side of the river becomes clearer higher up, with some red marks; a broad cliff band is passed by a small ramp on its left. The last cairn on the lower path is at about 540 m. Above, the ground is sloping slabs with wide grassy ledges that trend up and to the left, marked by sparse cairns and a little red paint; in places the route turns right to reach a higher ledge. Navigation needs care and the slabs are slippery when wet. Above about 900 m bear right towards point 1113, then follow snowfields and the left edge of the glacier to the 1,312 m forepeak and on to the summit, which is ice-free with two small cairns. Because the glacier has shrunk, it is now possible to stay on rock along its left edge all the way; a snow ridge close to the edge is often more convenient. Keep well left and away from the steep slabs ('flågene'), and away from crevasses: one large crevasse was seen near the forepeak in 2009. Return the same way. Reported times range from about 4 hours return for a fast walker to 7 hours return; one party took 3.5 hours up.