Preikestolen

A cliff standing 604 metres above the Lysefjord, with a top almost perfectly flat and roughly twenty-five metres square, which is why people walk out onto it and why BASE jumpers leap off it. The old local name was Hyvlatonnå, the plane’s tooth; Prekestolen was invented around 1900 by the Stavanger tourist association to sell the walk, and the i came later to fit Nynorsk. The path is 3.8 kilometres each way, three to four hours round trip, steep in places, and was rebuilt by Nepalese Sherpas in 2013. Some 300,000 people made the walk in 2024.