Norway is a spectacular destination for winter travel if you love exploring epic nature, and are not scared away by low, Arctic temperatures, snow, polar night, and short winter days.

At the last two Winter Olympics, Norway reset the records for total medals a single Winter Games (39) and gold medals at a single Winter Games (16). Over the last month, Norway bettered those totals ...

If Norway repeats its results from all of the world championships at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, it will break its own Winter Olympic records for most medals won (currently 39) and gold medals won ...

We Took a Magical Family Trip to Norway During the Winter—Here's How to Visit ... So what was I doing on a stormy, freezing hill in December, knee-deep in snow, ...

In winter, drifts blow across the one road to this windy, isolated headland rising 1,007 feet above the shore. Our tour bus joined a convoy following a snowplow that makes the trip only twice each ...

Norway's Robert Johansson soars through heavy snow fall during the Ski Jumping Men's Large Hill official training on February 13, 2022 during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Photo above: Alesund is at the entrance to Norway's Geirangerfjord. Here’s a secret. It’s not that cold up above the Arctic Circle—as long as you’re in Norway, where, thanks to the Gulf ...

There’s a familiar country atop the medal count in the Winter Olympics: Norway. The country has even set a new mark for most gold medals – after Johannes Thingnes Bø won his fourth of Beijing ...

From around 1900 to about 1980, Norway experienced about 140 days of winter each year, with a snow depth of at least 25 centimeters (just under 10 inches). Now, they have about 100 days, Skaland said.

The U.S., meanwhile, is outright second behind Norway in gold medals at world championships this year. The U.S. last finished second in Winter Olympic golds in 2006 (tied with Austria), last was ...