A 448 metre peak above Reine reached by a stone staircase of roughly 1,978 steps, cut into the mountainside by Nepalese Sherpa crews and finished in 2021 to stop the erosion the old mud path was causing. The climb takes most walkers an hour or so and ends on a narrow ridge looking down on Reine, Hamnøy and the fjord islands. The stairs close for avalanche and rockfall risk in winter and spring.
A stone staircase rather than a walk, and it closes without much warning after rockfall; start early, read the notice at the foot, and leave the car in Reine because there is no parking at the trailhead.
Reine, near the southern end of the drive, is where the walking starts. The view the whole road keeps promising has to be earned on foot, up the Sherpa stairs cut into the flank of Reinebringen: close to two thousand stone steps that gain four hundred and fifty metres more or less straight up, and in high summer they are less a trail than a slow queue. The stairs keep a season, roughly late May into September, and close for rockfall repairs without much notice, so check locally before building a day around them. Climb them in rain, near the back of a line of strangers, and the top still hands over the archipelago whole, every island and channel of it, for about as long as the weather here hands over anything. Then it closes.
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