Norway’s geography is ideal for hydro power. But clean energy schemes have reduce reindeer grazing habitats by up to 40%It’s cold. Minus 10,12 perhaps, and getting dark; the butter-fingers of a rising moon evident on the eastern horizon. Ill-equipped (the forecasts were for minus five), and my ears start to distress,and I pull in my hood. By the time you read this it will be colder still. And there are still no reindeer to be seen.
Olav hands me his binoculars and tells me to focus on a hillside approximately three miles away across the snowy vastness of Norway’s Forollhogna National Park, a tract of ancient, and ice-scoured mountains and mire,three hours’ drive inland from Trondheim.
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Source: theguardian.com