Sokse

20.04.202505.05.2025

Route involves glacier travel with risk of crevasses: Glacier safety kit, crevasse rescue skills and roped travel required!

Route involves avalanche terrain: avalanche training, beacon, shovel and probe required!

Route involves steep snow with risk of falling: crampon and self arrest skills required!

Middle of three glaciers, nice approach, interesting climb to the top. What else can you ask for!

Location	Jotunheimen, Norway
Difficulty	Ski: 3 – Complex
Our rating	3
Elevation	2189 m
Ascent	1100 m
Distance	15 km
Our time	5:30 h

Peak can be reached from either side of the mountain range. We started form near the Krossbu hut. Followed the marked track to the glacier and up to the saddle between sokse and Veslebjörn.

Going up to Sokse involves a quite steep gully on the east side of the mountain. See pictures below. Crampons and ice axe advised.

After Sokse we took a detour and topped the last peak on the range we hadn’t visited yet – Kniven. Mellow skiing back to the car.

Essential gear we had

More information

Friflyt 2021 – Toppturer i Jotunheimen

View of the glacier from below.
View of the sokse from below. Gully to to top in the middle is accessible directly from the middle or as we did, from the ridgeline on the right.
Short traverse below the gully goining up to Sokse
Quite steep gully going up to sokse. Requires good snow conditions and preferably crampons and ice axe.
Top of the sokse above the gully.
View from the Kniven tovards Sokse.