🇬🇧 Rihtonjira (6km) - Summer

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Location: Abisko, Norrbotten, Sweden

Follow red trail markers to hike through forest and apline scrub, cross a waterfall and snowfields, and summit Mount Nuolja. This audio experience is 6 kilometres from the top to the bottom and is only available in the summer. Learn about the history and geology of the village, find out more about the scientific research taking place here in the arctic, and search for some of Abisko's beautiful flora and fauna. You can start this audio experience at the top of the mountain and then hike down whilst listening, or you can start at the bottom near the chairlift. If you are starting the experience at the summit, you could take the chairlift halfway up the mountain and continue to the summit on foot.


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Start this trail

Follow red trail markers to hike through forest and apline scrub, cross a waterfall and snowfields, …

You've reached the summit!

You've reached the summit of Nuolja! You are 1164 m above sea level and over a thousand kilometers f…

This is a human landscape

It is easy to think of this Arctic landscape as a wilderness, and that it is untouched by humans. Bu…

Search for Lapland Lousewort (Pedicularis lapponica)

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Abisko National Park

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Lapporten

From here on a clear day, you should have a great view of one of Lapland’s most famous geological fe…

Abisko's geology

This is a landscape shaped by natural processes, carved slowly over millennia. Here, mica schist, sl…

The Sky Station

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Snowfields

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The railway

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11. Trolluis Eurpaeus

In June and July, this area is a great place to see one of the most famous plants found in Abisko Na…

12. Bees

You might have noticed bumblebees buzzing around as you walk. Plenty will be enjoying the flowers in…
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