Most passengers on cruise ships visiting Geiranger Fjord in Norway miss the extraordinary story of the families who chose lives of extreme hardship farming on tiny strips of land high above the fjord. So dangerous was the location of these farms that children had to be tethered. Midwives climbed in hobnail boots across ice waterfalls. Men carted massive bales of hay - and sometimes pigs and even horses from the water's edge to their farms on their...
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