Falketind is a mountain in Årdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway . It is located in the Jotunheimen mountain range inside the Utladalen Landscape Protection Area . The mountain is 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) east of the old mountain farm, Vettismorki , and 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) northwest of the lake Tyin .
6-520: The 1820 ascent was the first known ascent on an alpine mountain in Norway. A climbing party which included Baltazar Mathias Keilhau and Christian Peder Bianco Boeck went via Snøggeken (Falkbreen) and the northern ridge. At that time the mountain was named Koldedalstinden , but Aasmund Olavsson Vinje renamed the mountain Falketind more than fifty years later. In retrospect, the expedition leading to
12-986: A friend of Keilhau. When Abel died of tuberculosis in 1829, Keilhau was worried about his fiancé, and offered to marry her, although they had never met, and she accepted. Keilhau died in Christiania in 1858. Keilhau is regarded as the founder of geology in Norway. He graduated from the Christiania Cathedral School in 1816. In 1821 he graduated in mining , the first one at the University in Christiania, and received further industrial practice in Kongsberg . He subsequently studied mineralogy in Berlin , and geology in Saxony . Keilhau made
18-564: The Royal Frederick University in Christiania from 1826. In 1827 he joined an expedition to Bjørnøya and Svalbard . At Svalbard, the mountain of Keilhaufjellet and the glacier of Mathiasbreen are named after him. He was appointed professor from 1834. Among his publications is the three-volume Gaea Norvegica (1838–1850). The first volume from 1838 describes the Oslo Geological Region ,
24-505: The first ascent became known as the "discovery of Jotunheimen " ( Jotunheimens oppdagelse ). The first element is falk which means " falcon " and the last element is tind which means " mountain peak ". This article about a mountain, mountain range, or peak in Vestland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Baltazar Mathias Keilhau Balthazar Mathias Keilhau (2 November 1797 – 1 January 1858)
30-424: The first ascent of Falketind in 1820 along with two other climbers. He has later been labeled the "discoverer" of the mountain range of Jotunheimen . The mountain of Keilhaus topp is named after him. The 1820 journey, which he made along with fellow student Christian Boeck , was thoroughly documented in the article "Nogle efterretninger om et hidtil ubekendt stykke af det söndenfjeldske Norge". He lectured at
36-512: Was a Norwegian geologist and mountain pioneer. He is regarded as the founder of the discipline of geology in Norway, and has also been credited for the discovery of the Jotunheimen mountain range. Keilhau was born in Gjøvik to parish priest Johan David Bertram Keilhau and Johanne Marie Bodom. In 1830 he married Christine Kemp. His wife had been engaged to mathematician Nils Henrik Abel ,
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