Gondola Railway to Komsatoppen – altaposten.no

Do not know if there are so many other cities in Norway that are blessed with such beautiful nature in its midst, as Alta: Komsa, a natural gem, a unique mountain area in the middle of a growing city.

In many parts of the country, resistance to making major interventions in valuable nature increases. This applies to interventions leading to loss of nature and/or deterioration, or damage to it. An example is the planned gondola track up to the Jostedals glacier.

Now there are specific plans for a gondola lane to the top of Komsafjellet, with a 400 -square -kilometer down arrest, a top station of 200 square meters, a gondola track with a stretch of 950 mi airline, which will also require two concrete -cast masts, one down and one on the top.

A cruise ship has many passengers, the largest in our harbor 3000- 4000. When in the future a pedestrian German, an American, a French or Englishman/woman takes the gondola track up to the Komsatoppen, will surely be tempted to further walk beyond the rest of the top plateau. As we see it happening at Fløya in Tromsø. This may well apply to half of all passengers.

And maybe, or worse – maybe not – they will follow some of the countless trails that have come to the last decade in Komsa. The vegetation there is vulnerable, and as elsewhere in the Arctic area, it takes so little to destroy it. It is just to look at the injuries we as altarpers have inflicted on the mountain, by creating our own « private » trails and treads, summer and winter. Still new.

Alta municipality has done a good and exemplary job of post-mark a main route across the mountain. But there is good reason to fear the marked main path of many visitors will only be seen as a guide.

I think the mountain Komsa, everyone who loves it, and everyone who sees how unique the area is for Alta, preferably had seen this gondola track nothing became a thing.

The tourism industry in Alta municipality does a formidable job, both in terms of employment and value creation. But it will serve both the industry and us who live here, if you aim to develop other, more sustainable projects.

Ottar Fredheim

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