People of the North - The Telemark Canal (ENGLISH)

Arne Hjeltnes, Frida Ronge, and Stig Bareksten board the canal boat M/S Henrik Ibsen and take the unique waterway through the Telemark Canal. Here, we learn about the history of how 500 men spent five years blasting through massive mountains to create 18 lock chambers, spread across 8 lock systems. The result was a Norwegian "Orient Express" running from Skien to Dalen, a 105-kilometer journey that was one of the country's most important travel route between Eastern and Western Norway.