- Andy making his way through a sea of pillows on the way to Sabotorfossen. It would have been annoying if it wasn’t so picturesque!
- A team entering the chimney section in the middle of the route. The crux pitch can be seen looming above.
- Andy climbs featured ice at the start of the second pitch. From here the route disappears around the corner into a series of steep chimney slots.
- The easy angled but very brittle approach pitch on Juvsoyla. We were lucky this year that the pitch was fat enough to take screws and it provided a good warm up. Photo credit: Andy Inglis
- Havard Sandaker enjoying the steepness on pitch 2. We elected to shelter in a cave out of the fall-line and let them finish the route rather than spend time below them in the firing line.
- The view across the gorge from the top of Juvsoyla – a proper Scandinavian winter wonderland!
- Andy shaking out on the sustained final pitch of Juvsoyla – a spectacular finale to a great route!
- The view from the top – a belayer’s perspective of me milking the final rest for all it was worth! Photo credit: Andy Inglis
- Topping out the steepest and most sustained ice I’ve ever climbed. My forearms had gone beyond pumped by this point and were cramping painfully, totally worth it though! Photo credit: Andy Inglis
- The Queen of the Upper Gorge – Juvsoyla in all her glory!
- The eponymous route of The Upper Gorge, Rjukanfossen, starts as a wide ice sheet before tapering into a narrow slot gully with a mixed exit. Photo credit: Andy Inglis
- Andy climbed the first two pitches in a onner, heading straight through the steep bulges above to make a long and sustained pitch.
- The “walk off” from the top of Rjukanfossen consisted mainly of floundering in waist deep snow. It was very pretty though. Photo credit: Andy Inglis
- Andy leads the steep right hand side of the Kong Vinter icefall in a long single pitch. Ice conditions turned out to be very poor but the only way out was up!
- Seconding the final section of Kong Vinter on vertical slush. A good lead from Andy and far more serious than it first appeared. Photo credit: Andy Inglis
- Wild Norwegian splendour on the walk out from Kong Vinter.
- Andy transitions from rock to ice on a spectacular variation to Not Only a N(ice) Guy. From here he moved left around the curtain to climb the outside face of the icicle to the top.
- The End of The World, or the Upper Gorge at least. A very exciting route to end the trip on, consisting of steep, highly featured ice – spicy! Photo credit: Andy Inglis
- The spectacular direct finish to Verdens Ende was in climbable but thin conditions – a pitch I found harder than anything on Juvsoyla, but one that Andy led very steadily.
- Concentration face on the final few metres of the direct finish to Verdens Ende. Photo credit: Andy Inglis