4th of December and about a mountain legend..

The number four of December, and today a real explorer we will remember..

He was born in 1892 in Grangarde in Dalarna Torsten Boberg. After the school was ended up in Dalarna, he moved to Stockholm for educate him at Dramatics student school, and had a success as an actor before he moved to Jamtland. There is not much written about this mountain giant, but what we can understand he was a real power man, with Hugh social skills and entrepreneurial spirit with a very good ability to express himself in writing.

Torsten Boberg

In 1910 and a couple of decades after, there were just a few of the Swedish people who had the opportunity to spend time with outdoor activities, mountain tours and mountain climbing. The tourism has just begun in Sweden, and he took the opportunity to lead this development. The older Jamts, associates him with Trillevallen with the mountain hotel he drove.

From the old days

Now…

But it was lot more he did for the development of the tourism especially for Jamtland and its mountain environment. For example he lived with the Sami, for a period for understanding there lives. This resulted in the book “fjallmarken folk”. In 1919 he was the leader of the first tour leader course in Sweden. He also wrote a lot of books, description of tours as well as about how to exercise mountain sports. He also was a great mountain climber. Among other things he performed the first climb of Pierikpakte, and Sarektjåkkos peaks. As a tour leader he went up 38 times to Kebnekasie south peak. Worth mentioning he also did the first winter climb of Kebnekaise North Peak (from the South Peak). In the 1920s he founded many of the trails that we use today in the western of Jamtland. Here follows some of the book he wrote during his life:

Att dra till fjälls.

Ränna på björn och andra fjällskildringar.

Bortom stigarna.

Svensk fjällsport.

Vargavinter.

Fjällmarkend folk.

Tretusen man kvar på fjället.

The music today: