On statues along the ways across snow-covered mountains

THESE mountains which separate Sweden from Norway are commonly called by another name, Dovrefjell or, if you prefer it, the Dovrine Alps. ¹ They are so tall and massive that to men making a journey of many days westwards or eastwards they appear, on account of their unmelting snows, to be perpetually white, as though bright clouds were solidified very high in the air. Consequently travellers there regularly see their routes cut off by a sudden fall of snow, and in the end they struggle to extricate themselves with exertions no less laborious than they would make in striving to emerge from the clutch of icy waves. ²

Dovrine Alps

Travellers are sometimes overwhelmed by the mass of snow