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which reaches an elevation of 2,469 metres (8,100 ft) above sea level with no glacier at the summit. In a 1917 official map, the mountain was indicated to be 2,481 metres (8,140 ft). So it was a matter of defining a glacier as a part of a mountain or not. The glacier has, however, shrunk in
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The route across the glacier that crowns the summit is completely without crevasses, but on a hot summer day it might be a wet hike across the melting snow which covers the ice. Visitors might even experience that the meltwater blows up across the summit, leaving hikers soaked. The view is
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There used to be a cabin at the summit, but because of the impossibility of mooring it sufficiently, it was knocked down by a storm and landed on the
Grjotbreen glacier, under the steep north wall of the summit.
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Glittertind had earlier been a challenger for the title as the highest mountain in Norway, as measurements showed
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lodge in the east, by a climb of about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). The hike from
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161:Geography
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