This remote archipelago is a dreamy base for adventure, with backcountry ski slopes reached by boat, hiking trails that offer ...

Norway is famous for its fjords, but it is also rich in beautiful beaches. This is especially true in the distant Lofoten Islands, which are also home to the pristine Haukland Beach on the island ...

“Bigger kids are stronger and faster,” he says. Mark Katzman Pay a winter visit to Norway’s remote Lofoten Islands, north of the Arctic Circle, and it’s impossible to miss the rows of ...

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Lofoten Islands in the far north of Norway have always been a world apart, a peninsula-like chain of wild, craggy ...

We have put to sea about as far north as you can put to sea, off the uppermost cape of coastal Norway ... And yet among the outermost islands in the Lofoten chain—a broken tusk of snow-covered ...

If you're looking to retreat from the world, we can't think of a more hauntingly beautiful place than Norway's Lofoten Islands. These spectacular islands lie 600 mi/965 km from Oslo off the north ...

This summer Adam Pustelnik and Andreas Klarström made the first ascent of The Corner kick (8a, 900m), a difficult and dangerous new variation to the climb Freya up the Storpillaren pillar on the North ...