High above the fjord, at an altitude of 600 meters, the two farms are located at Kjeåsen. You can both drive and hike up to enjoy the spectacular views.
Nowadays of course it’s a comfortable car ride through a tunnel, blasted out by the power company in Sima, but until 1974 there were no roads to Kjeåsen, just – by our standards – an impossibly difficult walk up to the farms, but here they found the land to be rich in natural resources, with hunting, trapping and fishing as the main sources of income for the inhabitants. The rich soil at the farm is full of nourishment, and the sun is guaranteed almost all year round.
Many generations have carried all they need on their backs up to Kjeåsen. It took 30 years to build one of the houses. All the materials had to be carried up, plank by plank. The heaviest load carried up to Kjeåsen is said to be a 90 kilogramme grindstone. A motorised cableway was built in the 1930’s, making the transport of goods a much easier task.