Fjords and the Preikestolen Cliff

This is a huge cliff in Norway that has 604 meters in tall. When Victor Hugo, the French writer visited the cliff, he called them as “the most terrifying of the ocean reefs”. Preikestolen is a natural rock that was carved by melting glaciers at the end of the Ice Age Era. The 25 square meters plateau on top of Preikestolen Pulpit Rock offers breathtaking scenes of the Fjord and creates terrific photo in many sides. You have quite likely seen pictures of people standing on top of Preikestolen Pulpit Rock before and found them suspensfully bewildering. You probably didn’t have them associate with the name of the place, but now you know.

Thanks to its near straight vertical properties, Preikestolen is popular with BASE jumpers. BASE jumper is legal in Lysefjorden area but as it goes with extreme sports, some BASE jumpers jumped to their deaths here.Preikestolen Pulpit Rock is located in south-western Norway, in Forsand municipality of Rogaland county, on the edge of 42 km long ocean fjord called Lysefjorden. Kjerag Mountain, which are a home to another famous natural attraction in Norway – Kjeragbolten, a boulder between two vertical cliffs is located at the end of Lysefjord, opposite of Preikestolen.