Storskrymten is a tall mountain in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. The top of the mountain is a

tripoint A triple border, tripoint, trijunction, triple point, or tri-border area is a geography, geographical point at which the boundaries of three countries or Administrative division, subnational entities meet. There are 175 international tripoints ...

for three counties and three municipalities:

Oppdal Municipality is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Dovre region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Oppdal (village), village of Oppdal. Other villages in the ...

(

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...

county),

Sunndal Municipality is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the Nordmøre Districts of Norway, region located in the northeast part of Møre og Romsdal counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village o ...

(

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in the northernmost part of Western Norway, Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the Molde (town), town of M ...

county), and

Lesja Municipality Lesja is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Lesja (villag ...

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Innlandet Innlandet is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (Jevnaker Municipality and Lunner Municipality were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken ( ...

county). The nearest urban areas are the village of

Sunndalsøra is the administrative centre of Sunndal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village of Sunndalsøra lies at the mouth of the river Driva at the beginning of the Sunndalsfjord. Sunndalsøra is surrounded by steep mountains, su ...

which is located about to the northwest,

Dombås is a village or small town in Dovre Municipality in northern Innlandet county, Norway. The village serves as the commercial centre for the upper Gudbrandsdalen valley. It lies at an important junction of roads with the European route E6 highway ...

which is located about to the south, and

Oppdal Oppdal may refer to: Places *Oppdal Municipality is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Dovre region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Oppdal ( ...

which is about to the northeast. It is the highest mountain in

county as well as the highest mountain in Sunndal municipality. Less than east of Storskrymten is the mountain ''Litlskrymten'' which means "the little Skrymt". It is located in the

Dovrefjell Dovrefjell is a mountain range in Central Norway that forms a natural barrier between Eastern Norway and Trøndelag. The mountain range is located in Innlandet, Møre og Romsdal, and Trøndelag counties in Norway. As a result of its central loca ...

mountains and it is inside the

Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park () is a National Park in Norway. It was established in 2002 to replace and enlarge the former Dovrefjell National Park which had been established in 1974. The park occupies and encompasses areas in three ...

. The mountain

Salhøa Salhøa is a mountain in Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjella National Park in Norway. The tall mountain is located on the border between Sunndal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county and Lesja Municipality in Innlandet county. Salhøa is reached most ...

lies about to the southwest, along the Sunndal-

Lesja Lesja is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lesja. Other villages in the municipality include Bjorli, Lesjas ...

municipal border. The mountain is surrounded by several other mountains including

and

Grøvudalstinden Grøvudalstinden is a mountain in Lesja Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain lies within Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, about north of the village of Lesja. The mountain is surrounded by several other mountain ...

to the west, Skuleggen to the southeast, and Svartdalskollen to the northeast.

Name

The first element is which means "big" and the last element is the finite form of ''skrymt'' which means "uncanny thing", "fright", or "scare" (the hillsides of the mountain are extremely steep). Dovre-Oppdal-Lesja storskrymten 1985m IMG 9050.JPG, alt=Barren mountains partially covered in snow, Morgenlys over Storskrumten.jpg, alt=Snow-covered mountains whose peaks are bathed in an orange glow, Oppdal skulan Storskrymten 1985m IMG 9038.JPG, alt=Rugged mountains of various elevations, the higher peaks and slopes featuring patches of snow, Storskrymten Litlskrymten and Grytkollen.jpg, alt=A lake beside partially snow-covered mountains,

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