You will get in BIG Trouble if you Cross this Arctic River!

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  • If you value your freedom it is best to stay on the side of the river you are already on. The border between Norway and Russia in the Arctic is easy to cross if you really want to. It is just a river. A really wild place where few people live. Grense Jakobselv, Northern Norway.

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  • @catnaz
    @catnaz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +466

    Norwegian soldiers at the border are trained to be over-the-top friendly, informative and helpful. They are awesome guys, most of them from the south of Norway and most of the ones at Grense choose to be sent here... as is one of the toughest places to serve your military duties in Norway and that, for many, is a big plus. Love Jardfjord! :-)

    • @sandvenexplorer
      @sandvenexplorer  4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Yes, friendly guys, and a friendly girl too. Yes, the area is GREAT for sure, some more videos from the area will come as well!

    • @adelarsen9776
      @adelarsen9776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      What's so tough about eating great food, camping, fishing, hunting and living like Kings with your comrades ?

    • @catnaz
      @catnaz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@adelarsen9776 They are not really camping... plus between -15 and -35 most of the time... not really your average walk in the park...

    • @adelarsen9776
      @adelarsen9776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@catnaz I meant on your spare time. No one goes camping at minus 30c

    • @catnaz
      @catnaz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@adelarsen9776, you are totally right :-) Awesome place to enjoy :-) Some hardcore do enjoy outdoors life in 30 below, but not many :-) Particularly, I enjoy skiing to my cabin, it takes about 1'5 h, and then the process of warming up the place and getting candles to light enough to read... magic. Who needs electricity or even the world in Jarfjord :-)

  • @Derek032789
    @Derek032789 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    There’s a place in Estonia where you can cross the Russian border briefly, provided you’re in a vehicle that keeps moving.

    • @martenkahr3365
      @martenkahr3365 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Unfortunately, that unique stretch of road will probably stop being unique eventually. Quite possibly before 2030, depending on how world events develop. A border adjustment treaty that would straighten out the Saatse Boot has been signed by both nations' foreign ministers since 2014, but then the annexation of Crimea happened and ratification in parliament was put on hold. Ratification was scheduled to be voted on by the Estonian parliament in 2022, but then the invasion of Ukraine happened and it the vote got taken off schedule and everything is on hold again.

    • @Derek032789
      @Derek032789 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@martenkahr3365 Russia isn’t going to exchange that land with relations being so bad. This will likely be an anomaly that won’t be solved for decades.

    • @JohnHenryEden2277
      @JohnHenryEden2277 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Derek032789 Hopefully the problem will be solved by Russia collapsing :)

    • @mrobocop1666
      @mrobocop1666 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Derek032789 Russia already ratified that treaty, and Estonia still didn't. And let it be that way so that unique border anomaly remains

    • @Spacemongerr
      @Spacemongerr ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It is called Saatse saabas/saatse boot

  • @michaelsteele4587
    @michaelsteele4587 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Hello from Michigan here in the USA....thank you for uploading this video. I always enjoy seeing different parts of the world, we live on such a beautiful planet and these border regions are areas many people don't think about or get the chance to experience in person. Despite the human activity going on around you in the video, this is a beautiful area.

    • @SonnyTyson
      @SonnyTyson ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Greetings from Michigan myself!

    • @billybobwombat2231
      @billybobwombat2231 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We do aye, how good is it we get to see it , you couldn't do this 20+ years back and now we can see it, incredible time we live in,east coast Australia 🤙🦘

  • @vojtsn
    @vojtsn ปีที่แล้ว +50

    i find it so cool that you got this close to the Barents Sea because it is basically the most northern sea you can get to, it feels so weird knowing that you were so far north and even then there is still a sea like any other that you could technically swim in

    • @Radek494
      @Radek494 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That sea must be so cold even in July. It won't be nearly as warm as Baltic Sea which is already a pretty cold one

    • @bavalux6844
      @bavalux6844 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Radek494 7 °C, I swam in it last August

    • @VinDieselS70
      @VinDieselS70 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The thing is, it's the Gulf stream that keeps it free of ice.

  • @peterstorms3381
    @peterstorms3381 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Me and my best friend met two Russians on a coastal rock at Knivskjellodden, the northernmost point in Norway near North Cape. After a chat, the Russians shared their food and vodka with us. Then we even boldly swam together in the Bering Sea for a few seconds which was bloody cold as hell. Most fun I've ever had with Russians.

  • @ronaldderooij1774
    @ronaldderooij1774 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I was there from the Netherlands in 1984. I walked up to the Norwegian radar station. But it was night (midsummernight sun, though). The only soul I saw was a sleeping man on the parking lot that sold hot dogs and coke. I woke him up and he made us a few. He was friendly, but not very talkative. It was all very surreal.

  • @angharadhafod
    @angharadhafod ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Some years ago, on a beautiful early July day, I went paddling in the Jakobselv. My aim was to get as close to the half way point as I dared, but it became deeper than I expected towards the middle. You make it sound like I was lucky! Though at the point where I paddled (probably not so far from the sign you filmed near the start of the video) the river is fairly narrow, and the other bank, on the Russian side, had fairly heavy undergrowth, so would have been difficult to patrol I think.

    • @CrippleX89
      @CrippleX89 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah you don't want to get caught by the Russians for illegally crossing the border. I've read somewhere that most people get away with a heavy fine but I'm sure they could do worse

    • @RobespierreThePoof
      @RobespierreThePoof ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's not the most tense border in the world, but it is getting worse again recently. In general, you don't want to give Russia any opportunities to create an international incident. Russia has many military assets in Murmansk due east of here. But we aren't at Cold War levels of distrust ... Yet.
      I think you'd have to actually set foot on Russian land to potentially cause a problem for yourself. The political arrests of Westerners that I've heard about have all happened well inside Russia.

  • @raedwulf61
    @raedwulf61 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    In 1980, I drove my cousin's mini cooper from Sandefjord to the North Cape and back. I haven't been to North Norway since, but really want to go again. Tusen takk for the interesting video!

  • @georgeemil3618
    @georgeemil3618 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Norway is listed one of the best countries to live in. Why would anybody in his right mind cross to go into Russia?

    • @mrobocop1666
      @mrobocop1666 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You can get remotely usual Western European salary and live in Russia like a rich person, as many people do, there are plenty of them even on TH-cam

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Adventure. And business. Plenty of reasons. Russia is an epic country, but sadly with the latest developments I wouldn't advice going there anymore...

    • @markobucevic8991
      @markobucevic8991 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kebman boy, its better to live there than in the balkans and most east European countries.

  • @IlyushinIL76MD
    @IlyushinIL76MD ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Hi and greetings from the other side of that border. Its really that close .. My Norwegian friend from Bergen and I wanted to meet like this while Covid restrictions where applied I wish to see Tromso and the Norwegian fjords. I love the high quality of your videos. I dont know or i can manage to come that close i even dont know or its allowed. I know Ivangorod RU and Narva EST is more easier. Russian borders are as usual heavily guarded visible and unvisible. In my eyes one of the best protected borders on European continent...But Russian borderguards are mostly friendly guys doing their job.

    • @michaelsteele4587
      @michaelsteele4587 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I live in Michigan here in the United States and we have areas here that border Canada with just a river separating the two countries. It's a neat experience being able to wave at someone standing on the other side in a different country.

    • @josephvanas6352
      @josephvanas6352 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Tromso is a great place to visit. I am from the Western US and have been all up and down the US west coast, The Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges, I have been to Hawaii too and have yet to find a more Naturally beautiful place than the Norwegian Arctic. Tromso was very nice I hope to go back some day.

    • @alekosalekadis6095
      @alekosalekadis6095 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Russia is best. ❤️ A Greek Citizen. 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇷🇺🇷🇺

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I bet they are. Now with even more men being mobilized in Russia, I doubt many Russian men will be allowed over, sadly. Wish you the best. And peace between brothers.

    • @odimixe
      @odimixe ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@kebman no one is being mobilized for several months already, it was over in autumn, and there're no specific issues with border crossing.

  • @gaius_enceladus
    @gaius_enceladus ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Beautiful area! Lovely old church there too!
    As a person from an island country (NZ) I find it very cool to be able to just wander up to a border like this!
    This one is particularly scenic!

    • @andrejluneznik9254
      @andrejluneznik9254 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And here in Europe borders aren´t just in rivers and open terrain, but sometimes inside towns and cities and even buildings. The wierdest example is probably the slovakian capital of Bratislava. It´s western and southern city limits are the border to Austria. So you can literally step from a field outside a remote austrian village into the city limits of the slovak capital city.

    • @dietmarnieder9834
      @dietmarnieder9834 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was there July 2018. At the first glimpse, I thought the border was not so dangerous like between East an West Germany until 1989. But people are detected a little bit more inward to Russia. A ploughed strip to detect footprints is also there. Fortunately, within most countries in the EU, the borders do not matter anymore. But there are neighbours and some of them are not friendly.
      Something for the people from NZ: Some hundred kilometres to the west, there the landscape is very similar to a broad valley in the northern part of the southern island of NZ.

    • @peterc.1618
      @peterc.1618 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andrejluneznik9254 And inside Belgium there is no border as such but the language spoken by the residents changes.

  • @brentsummers7377
    @brentsummers7377 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    There's one place in the EU where you can cross three or four borders by walking in a circle about 4 meters wide.

    • @fredskronk
      @fredskronk ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There’s two places like that in Norway. In the, relative south, you’ve got Three-Country Cairn (Treriksröset) where you can walk between Norway, Sweden and Finland. There’s a similar point “up north”, where Norway, Finland and Russia meets. There’s a monument there but you cannot approach it from the Russian side, nor walk around it since you’re not allowed into Russia.

    • @RDJ2
      @RDJ2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Drielandenpunt qualifies as well, where the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany come together.

    • @simonbone
      @simonbone ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@RDJ2 True, and it was even once a quadripont with the Esperanto-speaking territory of Neutral Moresnet.

  • @kebman
    @kebman ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I miss old Juri who lived up there. He passed away many years ago. He had great stories about the Winter War and ofc WWII. He was Russian, but his father escaped the revolution and smuggled him into Norway when he was very little. And he grew up there, so close to Russia.

    • @sunnysunset
      @sunnysunset ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What kind of stories? Can you tell one?

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sunnysunset Well, first of all the story of how his father smuggled him out of Revolutionary Russia to avoid the persecution of Christians is quite epic. Then he had stories about both the Winter Wars and WWII.
      He was himself forcibly inducted into the Red Army during WWII, and forced to spy on Nazi positions around Høybuktmoen and Kirkenes, as a forward spotter for the Soviet bombers. It was an incredibly dangerous job, but he somehow survived.
      Btw. Høybuktmoen infamously became the most bombed place in the whole of the WWII theatre, only outdone by Malta. To this day you can find all kinds of unexploded ordinance up there, so you're advice to be vigilant when entering certain areas. Never touch such object, but instead report it to the police.
      Just a couple of years ago a previously undetonated bomb exploded close to a helicopter hangar at the airport over there. It was just pure luck that nobody got hurt, but a helicopter was totalled. You'll also find stock-loads of old disarmed bombs and German military equipment up there.

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@sunnysunset He'd also tell about his time during the Winter Wars, when he was just a kid. For instance he noted that Norwegian neutrality guards would often look the other way as Finnish soldiers illegally entered Norway while trying to escape from Soviet troops many times their size.
      The Finns would never light a fire, despite desperately cold conditions in the winter. Instead they'd rely on thick wool clothing and body heat to remain warm. For instance they'd sit in a "bus line" close up to each other to keep warm, and they'd even sleep sitting like that. In short, the Finns were some incredibly hardy and well-trained soldiers.
      Alas old Juri passed away many years ago. The army up there held him in high regard, though, so they helped him with helicopter rides in and out of GJE to the hospital in Kirkenes before he finally submitted to God.

    • @silvanbeppigno4050
      @silvanbeppigno4050 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kebman ciao , grazie per i tuoi racconti interessanti , qualche anno fa' sono venuto a Jackobselv e mi sono innamorato del posto così vicino alla frontiera russa , ma abbastanza lontano dalle comodità di Kirkenes , e sapendo che comunque un tempo era abitato tutto l' anno , era molto emozionante per me provare ad immaginare come fosse impegnativo viverci .
      Sembra che ogni casa , la scuola , la chiesa ed il piccolo cimitero abbiano qualcosa da raccontarti.
      Sai se Juri abitava in quella magnifica casetta solitaria che si affaccia direttamente sul mare di Barents ?
      Quando ero lì un signore del posto mi raccontò di quando alcuni ragazzini di li andarono a fare il bagno nel fiume , dove sembra quasi un lago , ma inavvertitamente superarono di pochissimo il punto più profondo e la polizia russa chiamò quella norvegese che fece la multa alle famiglie dei ragazzi .
      Hai altri aneddoti da raccontare su quel meraviglioso posto ?

  • @catnaz
    @catnaz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Yes, the school is no longer open. Grense is just "cabins" now. Besides the military, no-one lives here permanently anymore. The last house to have had someone living permanently is the house by Lillesanden, some few years ago (not many) the owner of the house died. By the way, guess where is taken the picture of my profile... :-)

  • @madsbuhris
    @madsbuhris ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Former border between Finland and Norway. That used to be Finland before Russians attack on Finland!

    • @redrocklead
      @redrocklead ปีที่แล้ว

      Russians attack neighbors. We all know they are losing bad in Ukraine a non-NATO country. Please come at a NATO country. PLEASE.

    • @TheManinBlack9054
      @TheManinBlack9054 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Afaik, that piece of land was ceded to USSR after the Finnish attack of Leningrad during WW2. Not the Winter War.

    • @madsbuhris
      @madsbuhris ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheManinBlack9054 Finnish attack on Leningrad? WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Finland has never attacked Leningrad!

    • @annasolovyeva1013
      @annasolovyeva1013 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@madsbuhris Mannerheim did?

    • @madsbuhris
      @madsbuhris ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@annasolovyeva1013 so you have some special info that rest of the world dont know. Perhaps you could share the source of Mannerheims attack to Leningrad you are referring to.

  • @justinb.5277
    @justinb.5277 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    i would love to visit Norway, it's just beautiful! I've heard only good things about the country, hopefully i can visit someday

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Come on over! I'll make you some coffee and tell you stories about the Winter War, and that day in 1968 when the fog lifted and the entire Soviet Army had driven right up to the Norwegian border.

    • @albertalberto9988
      @albertalberto9988 ปีที่แล้ว

      Norway is a very beautiful country! Very expensive

    • @peterc.1618
      @peterc.1618 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kebman Were they looking for Czechoslovakia and got lost? 😀

  • @theveryfirst
    @theveryfirst ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If I were Russian, I'd be ashamed of my country.

  • @paanikki
    @paanikki ปีที่แล้ว +2

    About seeing Russian border soldiers: During the cold war, Soviet border guard patroling along the Soviet -Finnish border were ordered to avoid being seen by the Finnish border guards.
    Whenever the Russians saw a Finnish border patrol, they hit the dirt. The Finnish border guards sometimes saw the Russians before they took cover, and the Finnish BG patrols sometimes deliberately stopped and had their coffee break right next to the borderline, knowing the Russians were laying in the mud, snow or slush.

  • @ArcticExploring
    @ArcticExploring ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was there at Grense Jakobselv in summer 2020, way crowded place with tourists on that hot summer day.
    Weeks before I went there I asked for permission to fly with my drone at the border, and it was fine as long as I didn't record any Russian military installations.

  • @reb0118
    @reb0118 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How can you see Wales (4:06)? Surely Scotland and England would be in the way?....🤔

  • @yurialtunin9121
    @yurialtunin9121 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    very nice video. Enjoyed every minute of it. I have been to Murmansk several times and to Finland. It is nice to recall

  • @CrippleX89
    @CrippleX89 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    You got a pretty nice view of Mordor!

    • @TheManinBlack9054
      @TheManinBlack9054 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Randy Stair Forever Russia. they mean Russia

  • @PaulBrower-py7tv
    @PaulBrower-py7tv ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Between the two World Wars this was a boundary between Norway and Finland. Finland had a small strip of land connecting to the Arctic Ocean. There was a nickel mine, which explains why the Soviet Union wanted the area to the east of this border.
    I am surprised that the Soviet Union did not try to snip off a small slice of Norway as a reward for liberating the extreme northeast of Norway from the Third Reich.

    • @Spacemongerr
      @Spacemongerr ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Norway-Russia has had a peaceful border for 700 years, (only neighbour Russia havent fought against), why mess it up over some desolate territory that they didnt need

    • @emilv.3693
      @emilv.3693 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Spacemongerr also a river provides a perfect border, why fix something that isn't broken

    • @PaulBrower-py7tv
      @PaulBrower-py7tv ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Spacemongerr The Soviet Union technically fought the semi-independent quisling regime of Vidkun Quisling on behalf of the lawful government of Norway. Quisling was an abject puppet of Nazi Germany and recruited troops to fight the Soviet Union.

    • @Thesamurai1999
      @Thesamurai1999 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Spacemongerr It’s not really just some random desolate land. It has geo political significance.

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PaulBrower-py7tv Moreover Quisling was shot after the war for treason. Btw. many interesting stories from that place, both from the Winter War and from WWII. There are stories of German and Soviet soldiers dying in each others arms during the winter. It got so cold that they tried to stay warm together rather than fight, but they died anyway due to the extreme cold up there.

  • @finboy701
    @finboy701 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    jeg bor i italy,jeg har været magne gang i norge. jeg håper skal dra til GRENSE JAKOBSELV,denne sommer.jeg håper snakke norsk med local manner

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว

      Velkommen skal du være! :) Grense Jakobselv og området rundt er fantastisk.

  • @spleefthedude7747
    @spleefthedude7747 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hello from Philadelphia USA. That was a cool video. thanks!

  • @aliciahartmann4629
    @aliciahartmann4629 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow, thank you soo soo much for your Informations! This type of video should be played in school, it's so important. I didn't know that and had never learned that .. Thanks for that 👍

  • @vaibhavkarol_
    @vaibhavkarol_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    6:02 Probably the most beautiful and risky location for a school.

    • @sandvenexplorer
      @sandvenexplorer  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, during the Cold War it should have been location for the movie "Red Dawn", about a Soviet invasion...cool movie about some schoolkids being involved in fighting the Soviet troops..

  • @Abitibidoug
    @Abitibidoug ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In view of what's been going on with Russia invading Ukraine, I have absolutely no intention whatsoever of going to Russia. Back in 2016, when flying from Toronto to Delhi, the flight went over Russian air space. That was close enough for me.

  • @JHatLpool
    @JHatLpool ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A really nice piece of film. It is an education to see what the Norwegian-Russian border looks like.

  • @Crashed131963
    @Crashed131963 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I live in Canada on a remote River Border with the USA.
    That's how it works , you just can't enter the USA with a row boat without permission.

    • @CrippleX89
      @CrippleX89 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      With the exception that Canada and the USA are friendly neighbours, can't say the same about Norway and Russia sadly

    • @deazl666
      @deazl666 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I’m American and fish our shared waters. Canada doesn’t want us on your side either without permission.

    • @francisdec1615
      @francisdec1615 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Compare with for instance the border between Norway and Sweden, where you can just cross over without a passport if you're from Sweden, Norway or some other Nordic country.

    • @josephvanas6352
      @josephvanas6352 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@francisdec1615 You can travel to or through any Shengen agreement countries without border controls so long as you are already in a shengen country.

    • @francisdec1615
      @francisdec1615 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@josephvanas6352 I went from Sweden to Germany in May last year, and I had to bring my passport with me on the plane. And the customs searched through my stuff both before leaving Sweden and when entering the Munich airport on the way home. To Norway I never needed a passport in my whole life, and I was never stopped at the border. I have actually crossed that border already as a 16 yo, on my moped.

  • @martinkullberg6718
    @martinkullberg6718 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I also went to Norway but not that northernley😁
    5:46 did you alerted the ruski?😅

  • @EthanNunofya
    @EthanNunofya ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Greetings from Wisconsin, USA here.
    Thank you for taking the time to video this, these are some of my favorite kinds of videos, and you got some really cool shots in here.
    Just out of curiosity, I think I hear booms in the background at different points, what exactly are those?

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think he's adding some sound fx lol. It's a pretty quiet place, except for the constant wind.

    • @EthanNunofya
      @EthanNunofya ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kebman gotcha, was wondering if the wind was maybe causing the booms on the mic lol

  • @koltinn
    @koltinn ปีที่แล้ว

    It's interesting that you didnt show the bunkers that are about 500m? away from the church on the otherside nearby the river.
    Also the river is like 10-20m across on certain spots and being dumb kids at a time we've jokingly swam across to Russia.
    Those two mountains block tv signals radio too and we only had like a couple of stations that we could listen to.
    Reading or watching VHS tapes were a way to pass time, lego's and hiking/camping too.
    I've spent many summers there, mosquitos are vicious there.. Even bapthised there.

  • @daktarioskarvannederhosen2568
    @daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    a very beautiful area.
    imagine if on the other side it were the usa, then it would be continuously filled with overly exuberant military types and the forest would be chopped and filled with overly exuberant station houses and they would be patrolling back and forth in the river.

  • @billybobwombat2231
    @billybobwombat2231 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey fella, I enjoyed that , seeing places I'll never see , thank you from East coast Australia 🤙🦘

  • @kebman
    @kebman ปีที่แล้ว

    5:48 that's the "tin can" I wrote about on another video. It can easily get down to -50 degrees Celsius there in the winter, and then those tin cans aren't nice places to stay.

  • @matttilley8620
    @matttilley8620 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Weren't you tempted to go inside and explore the abandoned school? I would be all over that. Also, why not go say hi to the person living in the middle of nowhere? He probably would have enjoyed the company. So many missed opportunities here.

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's no longer trespassing after break-in and entry. ;) But yes, the people over there are very friendly, and almost all of them have some story to tell. The older ones could even tell you about WWII, and perhaps earlier. The most interesting guy I met there was Juri Kåsereff, tho. He was smuggled to Norway by his father after the Russian revolution. He had many great stories about the Winter Wars and WWII in that areas. Sadly he passed away many ears ago.

  • @BimmerWon
    @BimmerWon ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The forbidden river crossing. One day, I shall cross it.

    • @sandvenexplorer
      @sandvenexplorer  ปีที่แล้ว

      Cool, let me know and we make a cool video about it

    • @BimmerWon
      @BimmerWon ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sandvenexplorer will do lol

  • @william1863
    @william1863 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I can't wait till our Lord returns. 👍✝️✌️

  • @kebman
    @kebman ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Januray, during the winter storm, is an EPIC time to live on such a place. I speak from experience. Never lived in GJE, but... I was stationed at GSV, and I grew up in the North. Great to see the place again!

  • @JM-yx1lm
    @JM-yx1lm ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There should be a disclaimer or warning that the sound effects are fake. Otherwise the video was great.

  • @patchso
    @patchso ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! That is so beautiful in the June sunshine.

  • @zlovredniyTip
    @zlovredniyTip ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This reminded me of Tom Scott's video about The Saatse Boot.
    When I went to Estonia to city called Narva you could see a similar sight. On one side a small but yet busy city, while on the other its wilderness with border towers. Based on information from locals, the outline of the person in the tower is likely a cardboard model, or something of the likes. But do you really wanna find out?
    There are also videos of China - North Korea border. The videos tend to include people on the other side (border guards and others), even in less populated areas.

  • @drefk1973
    @drefk1973 ปีที่แล้ว

    My country, Sweden, is beautiful. But Norway, especially northen Norway is of the charts!

  • @sisselnilsen4699
    @sisselnilsen4699 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In 1958 a relative of mine drowned on this river while patrolling it as a military....

    • @sandvenexplorer
      @sandvenexplorer  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sorry to hear that! He did an important job for sure back then in the Cold War..

    • @sisselnilsen4699
      @sisselnilsen4699 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sandvenexplorer Dunno. But his girlfriend was pregnant. By accident I learnt about this for me unknown child last year in Cyprus! Long and complex story!

    • @CrippleX89
      @CrippleX89 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sisselnilsen4699 Oof, sad story!

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry to hear that... Just 10 years later, the Soviet Army rolled their tanks straight up to the Norwegian border in a show of strength. Your relative did a very important job.

  • @williamlong7188
    @williamlong7188 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the video interesting stuff .

  • @Spacemongerr
    @Spacemongerr ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Churchyard" 😋 100% Norwegian confirmed

  • @kegumingxin7789
    @kegumingxin7789 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I really like Norwegian culture.

  • @georgieippolito9924
    @georgieippolito9924 ปีที่แล้ว

    a reminder earth is for everyone not just humanity. go where you wanna go

  • @kellychuba
    @kellychuba ปีที่แล้ว

    Glory to the heroes who gave us freedom.

  • @createa.googleaccount713
    @createa.googleaccount713 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice Viseo! Thanks for sharing

  • @TheRocco96
    @TheRocco96 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been to this place and driven on the road that follows the river. While there, I met Norwegian border patrol soldiers and they were very friendly. This region is the closest you can get to the Russian border.

  • @theedxqboi
    @theedxqboi ปีที่แล้ว

    Those is a place I have always wanted to visit. Cool video.

  • @dimmiheev2542
    @dimmiheev2542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    a lonely shed on the Bank and a fence. post-Apocalypse

  • @welshskies
    @welshskies ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I've paddled in the Barents Sea, it is bloody freezing even in June!

    • @HighlanderNorth1
      @HighlanderNorth1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ❓(2:01) I was shocked at how tiny the Barents Sea is! It appears to be just a little snow-filled gully.... 😁

    • @welshskies
      @welshskies ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@HighlanderNorth1 I looked at your comment and thought ???? I then watched (2:01) again and laughed, I see what you mean. Well observed.

  • @deepalib3096
    @deepalib3096 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That was a lovely beach..... Nice to see the place where a nation physically ends.... So much of snow

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว

      The beach is where the border guards are baptized every spring and autumn. The tradition is to get naked and run into the icy cold water.

  • @konstantes
    @konstantes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nice atmospheric video with gun and bomb effects )
    I want to try ride my bike there, I hope its Totally legal and safely)

    • @sandvenexplorer
      @sandvenexplorer  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You should try it for sure..

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally legal as long as you keep the speed limits. ;) Note that there is far more traffic police in Norway than in Sweden. Don't know about Finland tho. Norway also likes to hide the traffic cameras, whereas Sweden usually puts them before junctions. It is a great trip to go up there. Hotels are expensive af, but AirBnB is quite affordable IMHO especially if you get off the beaten path.

  • @atlanticcoastexpress
    @atlanticcoastexpress ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for posting this video….it’s really interesting for me (living on an Island) to see the Russian border with Norway. It must seem very strange to look out towards Russia, realising just how different it is in that country with its Restrictive regime.
    If you ever visit the tri-point border shared with Russia and Finland I’d like to see a video of your visit. Incidentally, are refugees from Syria still crossing by bicycle from Russian into Norway? I read that riding a bike was the only way they could cross into Norway at the only open border crossing.
    Thank you again and I wish my Norwegian friends well…you are not alone! Best wishes, Rob in Bournemouth on the South Coast of England.

    • @sandvenexplorer
      @sandvenexplorer  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "where 3 countries face off", made that videos about the tripoint, check it out! Thanks! No such migrants anymore..

    • @mv69969
      @mv69969 ปีที่แล้ว

      Go once to Russia to check how restrictive regime is it before you start to spread nonsense over!Maybe you will be surprised!

  • @DieyoungDiefast
    @DieyoungDiefast ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Reading the notice at the beginning.... How do you photograph something in an aggressive manner? :D

    • @sandvenexplorer
      @sandvenexplorer  ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi there, yes.....thought about that myself..weird

    • @sarcasmunlimited1570
      @sarcasmunlimited1570 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Maybe if you shake your fist while taking the photographs.

    • @billyd7628
      @billyd7628 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      probably means like giving the finger, or mooning and maybe saying obscenities while filming/photographing toward the border.

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว

      It's illegal to do anything towards the border that could be seen as offensive. Flipping the bird, mooning, etc. All that will get you fined or jailed, even in Norway.

  • @Humble_Electronic_Musician
    @Humble_Electronic_Musician ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome scenery

  • @silvanbeppigno4050
    @silvanbeppigno4050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hallo , i would to know more about Wernar Pedersen, but at the Moment i did not find nothing , have you some links about that story please ? Thank you.
    Compliments for your video.

    • @sandvenexplorer
      @sandvenexplorer  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/2015/07/05/194408795/sovjets-mini-invasjon-av-norge

    • @silvanbeppigno4050
      @silvanbeppigno4050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sandvenexplorer thank you , some yerars ago i iwas there, It Is a very lovely place . I also heard about border troubles due to local childrens that where playing in the River

    • @sandvenexplorer
      @sandvenexplorer  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@silvanbeppigno4050 That is interesting..Not the best place for kids to play around that river I suppose..

  • @kj636
    @kj636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Winter could be killer..place is heaven though..beautiful blue water..

    • @sandvenexplorer
      @sandvenexplorer  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are unfortunately correct about the winter. Up there now..

  • @chingizzhylkybayev8575
    @chingizzhylkybayev8575 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The fact that Russia has an off-limits area near the border and Norway doesn't speaks volumes.

  • @christopherx7428
    @christopherx7428 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was there maybe 15 years ago, also on a beautiful day with the Arctic ocean like a mirror. As I recall it, the signs said that the border was defined as the deepest part of the river, whereever that that was...
    0:19: I can very well understand that you should not photograph military installations (even though the military itself on both sides have done so thoughougly) but that it is prohibited to "Make contact across the border"!? Now that is a clear sign of Russia being a dictatorship, in case anyone wondered.

  • @KhanKhan-tr6yv
    @KhanKhan-tr6yv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i wanna to like this man same hubby like me enjoy your adventure i like scandenavian ....and russia i will visit there and then to norway or alaska two option but i didnt like to do it alone bcs of fear ...

    • @sandvenexplorer
      @sandvenexplorer  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just go..Alaska is something else, was there once, you should check it out if given the opportunity!

  • @michaelshea4834
    @michaelshea4834 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The algorithm sent me here today …

  • @sumudu478
    @sumudu478 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please make video Finland Russia border crossing

  • @Shane-bx8ws
    @Shane-bx8ws ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd like to see all those crossing into the US, go here and try that.

  • @whois_dev9314
    @whois_dev9314 ปีที่แล้ว

    why was the beach blocked off

  • @admiralspyro9722
    @admiralspyro9722 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wtf so much snow in Mai/June?

    • @Radek494
      @Radek494 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's beyond Arctic Circle.

  • @emem2756
    @emem2756 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why I knew without watching that there's going to be Russia the other side.. you may encounter only problems there

  • @nihilmiror6312
    @nihilmiror6312 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful place. 👍👍👍

  • @dannybatterbee2444
    @dannybatterbee2444 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was a good little video

  • @leifandersson8754
    @leifandersson8754 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Interesting how one of Europes most rich countries got a border with one of the most poor countries in Europe. Also that the Norwegians created the sign in blue and yellow looking like the Ukrainian national flag. I wonder how the same sign in Russia looks like, if they have been able to afford any.

    • @CrippleX89
      @CrippleX89 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My best guess it's that there are barely any or no signs on the Russian side, except at the border crossing station. The Russian side doesn't seem to allow tourists there, only the military

    • @jabrilbalakrishna
      @jabrilbalakrishna ปีที่แล้ว

      Bruh...in what world are you living in? Russia has a space program since a long time ago. Yeah, sure, they are trying to afford a nice sign like Norway and they are almost there. Poor country you know.🤣 The fact that the author likes such comments really shows the dumbness.

    • @statinskill
      @statinskill ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The signs mostly seem to say "Attention! Border zone! Passage is prohibited". The best sign I have seen says something like "Fisher, pay attention! Report all suspicious persons without fishing gear!".
      It is a crime to illegally cross the state border in either direction, by citizens of Russia or by foreigners. The penalties are set forth in Article 322 of the Russian penal code. Article 322 (2) list the possible punishment for a foreigner illegally entering Russia willfully. Up to four years of imprisonment or mandatory labor are possible.

    • @mrobocop1666
      @mrobocop1666 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Russia is not even in Top-10 of poorest European countries. Even with all 20 000 sanctions.
      While Ukraine was the poorest in Europe even before the war

    • @leifandersson8754
      @leifandersson8754 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mrobocop1666 Look at BNP per capita and Russia is extremely poor compared with Norway.

  • @susanfarley1332
    @susanfarley1332 ปีที่แล้ว

    My daughter was married to a guy from Sweden and he complained a lot about Russians crossing the border to steal swedish bicycles. Is that a problem in Norway? I was wondering.

  • @OscarStigen
    @OscarStigen ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hopefully a border between Norway and Finland in the future.

    • @grundgesetzart.1463
      @grundgesetzart.1463 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lmao mo.ron. Go ahead and take it, hero.

    • @mrobocop1666
      @mrobocop1666 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@grundgesetzart.1463 yeah, Slavic peoples like Russians or Ukrainians don't afraid to die and ready to fight, but Finnish used to comfort rich carefree life - are they ready to die in a meat grinder to get a piece of forest there?

    • @OscarStigen
      @OscarStigen ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@grundgesetzart.1463 Unlike you we don't invade our neighbors, but I'm hoping for another Russian state collapse.

  • @douglasmacrae8947
    @douglasmacrae8947 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is that real gunfire or is this just doctored into the video for amusement?

    • @silvanbeppigno4050
      @silvanbeppigno4050 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The second you wrote, the same identical gun firing sound track Is in his video of the 3 Borders point.
      That sound track Is clearly a fake only to get shit on Russia country!!! Bad story...

  • @silvanbeppigno4050
    @silvanbeppigno4050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hallo , nice video , in your opinion the shoots where fired for soldiers training or for real border troubles ? Do you think they have been fired in the Russian side ? Thank you.

  • @akademikscousin5637
    @akademikscousin5637 ปีที่แล้ว

    Editing sounds in?

  • @IDIOCRACY-1984
    @IDIOCRACY-1984 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Someone please explain what *'filming'* in an *"aggressive an provocative* manner" could possibly mean

    • @TheManinBlack9054
      @TheManinBlack9054 ปีที่แล้ว

      Being annoying?

    • @IDIOCRACY-1984
      @IDIOCRACY-1984 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheManinBlack9054 *hahahahaha* they must have a bunch of Japanese tourists behind bars

    • @annasolovyeva1013
      @annasolovyeva1013 ปีที่แล้ว

      Either carrying gear that looks like rifles, or being very annoying precisely looking for Russians in a teleobjective.

  • @michaelciccone2194
    @michaelciccone2194 ปีที่แล้ว

    They use the word "gonna* in Norway too
    ,

  • @2Amd290
    @2Amd290 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In U S you can just walk across our southern border and get what ever you want,Paid for by the American taxpayer.

    • @jeysonlivington
      @jeysonlivington ปีที่แล้ว +1

      People have to respect borders. Europeans do
      Well, except russia..

    • @thierrydesu
      @thierrydesu ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jeysonlivington No Russian has ever thought of crossing the Norwegian border. But when it comes to the Southern borders of Europe, we have African invaders by the millions.

    • @jeysonlivington
      @jeysonlivington ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thierrydesu I'm sure they get deported

    • @thierrydesu
      @thierrydesu ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jeysonlivington Deporting illegal aliens has been made impossible by the EU. On the contrary, they are encouraged to come and invade us.

  • @mandamiddle0278
    @mandamiddle0278 ปีที่แล้ว

    how is this placetoday? is it full of military?

    • @tony_1980
      @tony_1980 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I live up here. No, its as calm as ever. Only anomaly so far has been the Warner defector. Governmental threat assessment states that the threat of invasion is not higher than pre-invasion of Ukraine. Fun fact: The brigade that was stationed up here in Murmansk, got obliterated in Ukraine. One of the best equipped brigades in the entire Russian army. So the odds are probably lower now. xD
      Norway is throwing money, militarily and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. I am proud of my country for that, and proud of our former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg. But most of all in awe if the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
      Slava Ukraine!

    • @so_qp
      @so_qp ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tony_1980 Stay safe brave vikings, it sucks to live near borders with orcs. Much love from Czechia

  • @CO84trucker
    @CO84trucker ปีที่แล้ว

    Darn. So no obscene gestures?

  • @alexeatonexploresamerica5511
    @alexeatonexploresamerica5511 ปีที่แล้ว

    So it's not okay to cross the river but can I throw a rock across the river

  • @sammencia7945
    @sammencia7945 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video.
    Thanks for driving all the way north to show us the border.

  • @martinking1993
    @martinking1993 ปีที่แล้ว

    Even when this place is prettymuch in middle of nowhere, i still feel sorry for you guys, it must be frustrating to have borders with orcs.

  • @somethingelse4878
    @somethingelse4878 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi from NW england
    Can you give the map location of the chair at 5:00 in the video

  • @patrickarseneault7407
    @patrickarseneault7407 ปีที่แล้ว

    proud is not the word i would use now a days

  • @Exodus20.7KJV
    @Exodus20.7KJV ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the video! Informative and beautiful.👌🇺🇲

  • @Echoes-
    @Echoes- ปีที่แล้ว

    Oscar II was the king of Sweden & Norway.

  • @coolvania
    @coolvania ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Why would you edit in gunfire and bombs when showing Russia? Makes your video lose credibility, especially when you don’t even mention it

  • @mysteriumvitae5338
    @mysteriumvitae5338 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It looks easy to get into Russia over this river.
    But if breaking a rule looks very easy, you're probably forgetting about something, not taking something important into account.
    I think there are plenty of Russian soldiers wandering along the border on the other side of the river. And probably a fence somewhere. It's like attempting a ticketless drive on a train: you're lucky if you don't get seen by any of the controllers, but if you do, you're in for trouble. I don't know exactly which kind of trouble you would experience if you got caught by the Russian soldiers, but I wouldn't chance it. Unlike in former Soviet times, you wouldn't be shot on the spot any more, but still...

    • @mrobocop1666
      @mrobocop1666 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not plenty of them, did you see the size of Russia? 38 000 km of border. You will still manage to get several km on foot by stroll speed inside Russian territory until border patrol will find and stop you.
      For border passing in unauthorized places you will get fined and then deported, like in any country (maybe, except some totally uncivilised ones where they kill you, or like in US/EU where they will put you on welfare and give free money from taxpayers😄

    • @mysteriumvitae5338
      @mysteriumvitae5338 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mrobocop1666
      > or like in US/EU where they will put you on welfare and give free money from taxpayers😄
      If you're lucky. Or let you die from natural reasons on the border if you're not.

    • @DenisLyamets
      @DenisLyamets ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess, they ll escort you back to the border

    • @kebman
      @kebman ปีที่แล้ว

      You're making a lot of guesses and they aren't all wrong. Russia has a 10 km (!) constantly patrolled border zone, with barb wire fences and tall double-fences with trip-wires and raked sand in between. There are also cameras, pill boxes and watchtowers in the whole area. On top of that, the area isn't just patrolled at the border, but in depth, and with dogs. So getting across is _very_ hard no matter which side you come from. There was one guy who made it recently, though; one Andrey Medvedev, an escaped Wagner operative who deserted his post to get away from the war.

    • @bardo0007
      @bardo0007 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's a huge area, just look at Google Maps. If you bring a tent over I am sure you could manage to live in the wilderness without any Russians spotting you. But it's a risk to take, if they spot you you will get arrested.

  • @puk182
    @puk182 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lmao the war sound effects

  • @Quraishy
    @Quraishy ปีที่แล้ว

    Why is there gunfire at 2:30

    • @silvanbeppigno4050
      @silvanbeppigno4050 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Is not real , I think It has been added in a second time on the sound track , exactly like he did in the video where he visit the three Borders point with Russia and Finland.

  • @BjornarFrantzen
    @BjornarFrantzen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful beach

  • @aivisabele
    @aivisabele ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Proud country of rusha lol?

  • @Fabian-Wenzel
    @Fabian-Wenzel ปีที่แล้ว

    What if you cross the border between Norway and Finland, in wilderness? I crossed the border between Germany and Austria 20 years ago, in the forest. There were no big signposts just a lonely boundary stone. That's EU. I had so much fun hiking in the forest that I just kept walking into Austria. Later I didn't feel like it anymore because my feet hurt. I then took the train back to Germany. I remember it was a beautiful fall day, but late in the afternoon fog was gathering. I almost got lost because of the fog that's why I remember it so well.

    • @jeysonlivington
      @jeysonlivington ปีที่แล้ว

      Austrians are germans..

    • @thierrydesu
      @thierrydesu ปีที่แล้ว

      Norway is not a member of the European Union.

    • @Fabian-Wenzel
      @Fabian-Wenzel ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thierrydesu Norway is not part of the EU. However, there is an association agreement between the EU and Norway and Article 14 states that when the agreement enters into force, Norway will be part of the Schengen area, except for Svalbard.

  • @doctor_who1
    @doctor_who1 ปีที่แล้ว

    did someone just cross this river the other day, but in the opposite direction

  • @Duijnkiller
    @Duijnkiller ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Whats with the fake shooting audio?