Innerdalstårnet
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Innerdalstårnet or Dalatårnet is a mountain on the south side of the Innerdalen
Innerdalen
Innerdalen is a valley in the municipality of Sunndal in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is also Norway's first nature reserve. The valley and nature reserve begins at Ålvundeid by the highway in the west and stretches approximately to the east to Innerdalsporten. It lies within the...

 valley in the municipality of Sunndal
Sunndal
is a municipality in the Nordmøre region located in the northeast part of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Sunndalsøra. Other villages include Jordalsgrenda, Øksendalsøra, Grøa, Hoelsand, Ålvund, and Gjøra.With an area of it is the...

 in Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal
is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. The county administration is located in Molde, while Ålesund is the largest city.-The name:...

 county, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is also known as the Matterhorn
Matterhorn
The Matterhorn , Monte Cervino or Mont Cervin , is a mountain in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Its summit is 4,478 metres high, making it one of the highest peaks in the Alps. The four steep faces, rising above the surrounding glaciers, face the four compass points...

 of Norway
for its characteristic pyramid
Pyramidal peak
A pyramidal peak, or sometimes in its most extreme form called a glacial horn, is a mountaintop that has been modified by the action of ice during glaciation and frost weathering...

al shape.

The summit can be reached with some scrambling
Scrambling
Scrambling is a method of ascending rocky faces and ridges. It is an ambiguous term that lies somewhere between hillwalking and rock climbing. It is often distinguished from hillwalking by defining a scramble as a route where hands must be used in the ascent...

, and the mountain is a very popular destination for rock climbing
Rock climbing
Rock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling...

, several routes are established up the mountain

The northern sub-peak, Litle Innerdalstårnet (seen in the picture) is slightly more inaccessible. Directly south of Innerdalstårnet are the mountains Tårnfjellet and Såtbakkollen
Såtbakkollen
Såtbakkollen is the second highest mountain in the Trollheimen mountain range, after Trolla at . It is located just south of the Innerdalen valley in the municipality of Sunndal in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Other mountains around Tåga include Narvardalsnebba , Tårnfjellet and the quite...

, which is the second highest in Trollheimen
Trollheimen
Trollheimen is a mountain range in Møre og Romsdal and Sør-Trøndelag counties in central Norway. The mountain range is part of the Scandinavian Mountains.- Etymology :...

. The mountain Skarfjellet
Skarfjellet
Skarfjellet is a mountain in the municipality of Sunndal in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It lies along the southern side of the Innerdalen valley, just west of the mountain Innerdalstårnet. It is the northern peak along the Trolla ridge where the highest point is Store Trolla at . The mountain...

lies just to the west on the other side of the lake Storvatnet.
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