Saksi | |
Other Name: | Sokse / Saksa |
Map: | Innlandet#Norway |
Map Alt: | Map of the location |
Label Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 61.5616°N 8.1335°W[1] |
Location: | Innlandet, Norway |
Elevation M: | 2189 |
Prominence M: | 179 |
Isolation Km: | 0.322 |
Elevation Ref: | [2] |
Prominence Ref: | [3] |
Range: | Jotunheimen |
Parent Peak: | Storebjørn |
First Ascent: | 1886 Carl Hall, Mathias Soggemoen |
Saksi or Sokse is a mountain in Lom Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The 2189m (7,182feet) tall mountain is located in the Jotunheimen mountains within Jotunheimen National Park. The mountain sits about southwest of the village of Fossbergom and about northeast of the village of Øvre Årdal. The mountain lies in the Smørstabbtindene mountains and it is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Rundhøe to the northeast; Stetinden and Stehøi to the southeast; Gravdalstinden, Storebjørn, and Veslebjørn to the south; Kalven to the southwest; and Kniven and Store Smørstabbtinden to the north. The first known ascent was in 1886 by Carl Hall and Mathias Soggemoen.[4]