The Telemark Skiers Who Saved the World
On December 23, 1942, Jens-Anton Poulsson skied alone across the Hardanger plateau, or Hardangervidda, in the Telemark region of Norway, one of the most hostile mountain areas in Europe. Poulsson had grown up in the town of Rjukan—a few days’ ski away—and had even built a cabin on the plateau with his family years earlier. […]