Töfsingdalen National Park (accident)
2017_091 - 2 days
What starts as a happy hiking adventure turns into a survival situation. We aimed for a wilderness area on the edge of a national park that doesn't have roads, buildings or even phone coverage. Instead, it has raindeer, wolves and bears. We reached our goal, over a slippery rocky path, into the secluded valley. And there the unthinkable happened... I slipped and broke my leg... We had practised for such an emergency scenario a week before, when we were still hiking in Saltfjallet National Park. We both stayed very calm and knew exactly what to do. First stabilizing the medical situation, then creating a safe emergency shelter where I could wait for Ingeborg to return with help. It took 10 hours to get to a hospital.
Surviving Töfsingdalen National Park (movie)About halfway the movie the story changes and becomes a survival situation. |
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GPX Track
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Töfsingdalen Camp (360)The only camp in Töfsingdalen National Park. (360 degrees panorama) |
Big Skies
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Raindeer near Töfsingdalen
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I slipped on a rock or a root and broke my foot. There was no space for an emergy shelter, so I continued uphill for another hour with 2 hiking poles while Ingeborg hauled the backpacks up the trail. There she put up the tent, I wrote down my GPS coordinates and she went to find phone coverage and help. 
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Emergency shelter
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Finally safe. In a hut in Sarna.
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