Holmenkollbakken
Steel ski jump towering over the city, with a panoramic deck, ski museum and a century of history.
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This guide to Holmenkollbakken in Oslo starts on a winter day in eighteen ninety-two, with Arne Ustvedt launching off a jump built from twigs and snow in front of crowds who had climbed up through the forest. It follows how that hillside kept being torn down and rebuilt, and touches the nineteen fifty-two Olympics and Arnfinn Bergmann. Best heard at the foot of the outrun, looking up the in-run.
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