Kalvehøgde

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Kalvehøgde is a mountain group in Vågå Municipality and Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The 2,209-metre (7, 247 ft) tall mountain is located in the Jotunheimen mountains. The mountain sits about 60 kilometres (37 mi) southwest of the village of Vågåmo and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northwest of the village of Beitostølen. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Rasletinden to the east; Tjønnholstinden and Tjønnholsoksle to the north; Skarvflytindene, Leirungskampen, and Austre Leirungstinden to the northwest; and Torfinnstindene to the west. Kalvehøgde is a 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) long massif in the southernmost part of the Jotunheimen mountain range. The northern part of the massif lies within Jotunheimen National Park. The massif rises quite slowly from lake Bygdin, and ends in an extremely steep wall to the north. The wall is about 500 to 700 metres (1, 600 to 2, 300 ft) high. On the northern side of the massif, there are several glaciers, with Leirungsbrean as the greatest. On the southern slopes there are two smaller glaciers - the Kalveholobrean glaciers. All the glaciers have retreated in the later years. The massif contains ten 2,000-metre (6, 600 ft) summits, but the northwesternmost (in the foreground on the photo to the right) and the two easternmost (not visible) are normally seen as independent mountains. The prominence of

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