Hardangervidda is Northern Europe’s largest high mountain plateau, covering 8 000 square kilometers. If you stand in the middle of the plateau, the view is almost infinite in all directions. You will see rivers, large lakes and weathered mountains.
About 8 000 meters ago, the first people came to the highland plateau, they lived by hunting reindeer and fishing.
From 2015 to 2024 Eirik Brekke has been a regular visitor to Hardangervidda to see who uses the plateau today. After many of the photos were taken, restrictions have been introduced on human traffic on parts of the Hardangervidda. This is to protect the wild reindeer herd that has been on the plateau since the last ice age.
Afterword by Marit Eikemo, Norwegian essayist, novelist, journalist and magazine editor.
This is Eirik Brekke’s first book.
59 color images • Edit and design: Eirik Brekke, Gösta Flemming • Text: Marit Eikemo, Eirik Brekke, Roald Amundsen • Translation of Marit Eikemo’s text to English: Eva Jensine Pritchard • Hard cover • 300 x 242 mm • 136 pages • Norwegian/English • Final art: Johan Lindberg • Prepress and printing: Narayana Press • Book binding: S. R. Büge • ISBN 978-91-87939-86-0 • 2025
