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# Bøverbreen
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/boverbreen/
- Published: 2000-01-02T11:14:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-20T08:45:13.000Z
- Description: The Bøverbreen is an arm of the Smørstabbreen glacier in Jotunheimen National Park. I had booked a guided tour to visit the glacier.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Photography

In 2016 I noticed some people on top of the Bøverbreen glacier in Jotunheimen National Park near the Krossbu Turisthytte. I made a mental note (read: bookmark) and in 2022 I booked a guided tour to Bøverbreen. There had been a lot of late season snow so the crevasses were still filled with snow making it dangerous to get close to the crevasses near the top of the glacier. Even so, I had a great time exploring the glacier together with the guide who explained a lot about the geology and the history of the surrounding area. The Bøverbreen glacier is covered with the remains of lemmings that die when they try to cross the glacier!

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/08/b-verbreen-1.jpg)

On the way to the Bøverbreen. I love these landscapes.

![Bøverbreen](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/08/b-verbreen-2.jpg)

Somewhere on Bøverbreen. Notice the snow filled crevasses.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/08/b-verbreen-4.jpg)

Snow filled crevasses

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/08/b-verbreen-3.jpg)

This was as close as we could get to the crevasses near the top of Bøverbreen

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/08/b-verbreen-5.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/08/b-verbreen-6.jpg)

In five or ten years the glacier will look entirely different and I might give it another try to reach the top

![Bøverbreen](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/08/b-verbreen-7.jpg)

I don't fancy jumping across a crevasse but sometimes you have no choice

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/08/b-verbreen-8.jpg)

I was standing split legged inside a crevasse while taking this photo 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/08/b-verbreen-9.jpg)

My guide on Bøverbreen to provide a sense of scale

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/08/b-verbreen-10.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/08/b-verbreen-11.jpg)

Time to take off the crampons and head back. When we reached the parking lot it started pouring with rain.

### Links

More glaciers! [Gornergletscher](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/gornergletscher-revisited/), [Aletschgletscher](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/aletschgletscher-tour/), [Svellnossbreen](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/svellnosbreen-glacier/), [Nigardsbreen](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/nigardsbreen-glacier/), [Falljökull](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/falljokull/), [Glacier du Tour](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/refuge-albert-1er-glacier-du-tour/) and the [Glacier Trail Felskinn Mattmark](https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/glacier-trail-felskinn-mattmark/).