Stetind , is a mountain in Tysfjord

Tysfjord

Tysfjord or Divtasvuodna is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Ofoten traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kjøpsvik...

, Nordland

Nordland

is a county in Norway in the North Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The county was formerly known as Nordlandene amt. The county administration is...

, 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...

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In 2002, it was voted to be the National mountain of Norway.

The mountain had several attempts at first ascents. First was the German Paul Grussfeldt and Norwegian Martin Ekroll summer 1888, then the Dane Carl Hall

Carl Hall (born 1848)

Carl Hall was a Danish mountaineering pioneer.He was born in Frederiksberg as a son of Prime Minister Carl Christian Hall. He made 46 first ascents of Norwegian mountains. He was decorated Knight of the Order of St. Olav in 1890....

 and the Norwegian mountain guide Mathias Soggemoen attempted in 1889. They did not succeed, but Carl Hall built a cairn

Cairn

Cairn is a term used mainly in the English-speaking world for a man-made pile of stones. It comes from the or . Cairns are found all over the world in uplands, on moorland, on mountaintops, near waterways and on sea cliffs, and also in barren desert and tundra areas...

 on the lower summit 500 meters southeast of the main summit, now called Halls fortopp (1,304 m). After 1900, William Cecil Slingsby

William Cecil Slingsby

William Cecil Slingsby was an English mountain climber and alpine explorer.Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and fell in love with the country. He has been called the discoverer of the Norwegian mountains, and the father of Norwegian mountaineering...

 also failed. It was not before 30 July 1910 that Ferdinand Schjelderup

Ferdinand Schjelderup

Ferdinand Schjelderup was a Norwegian mountaineer, Supreme Court Justice and resistance member during the German occupation of Norway.-Personal life:He was born in Kristiania as the son of Thorleif Frederik Schjelderup and Inga Berven...

, Carl Wilhelm Rubenson and Alf Bonnevie Bryn finally summited. Arne Næss

Arne Næss

Arne Dekke Eide Næss was a Norwegian philosopher, the founder of deep ecology. He was the youngest person to be appointed full professor at the University of Oslo....

, Ralph Høibakk and K. Friis Baasted did the first winter climb in 1963 on the eastern wall. Arne Næss

Arne Næss

Arne Dekke Eide Næss was a Norwegian philosopher, the founder of deep ecology. He was the youngest person to be appointed full professor at the University of Oslo....

 and four others were in 1966 the first ones to summit via the west wall.

The name

The shape of the mountain has been compared with a ste n 'anvil

Anvil

An anvil is a basic tool, a block with a hard surface on which another object is struck. The inertia of the anvil allows the energy of the striking tool to be transferred to the work piece. In most cases the anvil is used as a forging tool...

', the last element is the finite form of tind m 'mountain peak'.