Norway, land of vikings, gives better birthday presents than you do.

This week, the government is mulling over giving an arctic mountain to Finland next year when it celebrates its birthday and 100 years of independence from Russia.

The mountain in question is mountain the 1,365-metre-high Mounta Halti, which sits about a kilometre away from the Norway’s border with Finland.

If Norway does decide to give Finland the mountain – and prime minister Erna Solberg says despite ‘some formal challenges we are looking into it’ – it will become Finland’s tallest. (At present, the 1,331-metre-high Halditsohkka wears the crown.)

Norwegian politicians from across the political spectrum have lent their support to the idea. The major of Kafjord, which is close to Halti, said it would be a ‘wonderful gift.’

Norway, it bears reminding, still provides the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree. In 1947, the city of Oslo declared that as a token of appreciation for British support during World War II it would provide the tree as an annual gift.

Source:
courtesy of METRO

by Harry Readhead

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