Why Denmark Debated its Highest Peak for 100s of Years (peak 15/50)

In 2005 it all changed. Here's the history and modern day story of Denmark's highest point and how it kept changing over centuries.
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[@hjkiddk]

Fun fact. A Norwegian man, Roger Pihl, wrote a book called Danmarks Bjerge (Mountains of Denmark). It's 430 pages. The lowest "mountain" he visited was 1 meter.

[@NatashaBergen]

No way! 🤣 I’m not surprised but now am curious to check it out! Thanks!

[@Tbonyandsteak]

There is an old video called "the mountain city Vejle" "Bjergbyen Vejle; anno 1956" The alp city of Denmerk XD The danes had lived isolated not really relate how actually mountains looked like

[@Darkenforcer]

i got so excited when you started chanting "møllehøj,møllehøj, møllehøj" ... not just because im a dane, but because you pronounciation of the Ø was so perfect so sorry you had to arrive on a sunday , and no one told you that almost everything is closed down on sundays especially in jylland... but kudos to you for actually go to jylland , most foreighn youtubers only go to copenhagen and think they have seen denmark now

[@Jonassoe]

If we include artificial points, then the highest fixed points are the towers holding up the Storebælt suspension bridge at 254 metres above sea level. Though the wind turbine blades at Østerild Test Centre go even higher than that at the top of the swing.

[@donpardoe8067]

I really enjoy watching your videos. The beautiful scenery and your cheerful nature together combine to blow the clouds away.

[@NatashaBergen]

So happy to hear 💛 Thank you for letting me know 😊

[@papaquonis]

I never thought I'd get to see another video on the controversy of the highest peak in Denmark, that's as funny and entertaining as the one from The Tim Traveller. I loved it!

[@NatashaBergen]

I had to check this vid out!! His is so good!!!

[@papaquonis]

@@NatashaBergen Right?! All his stuff is great, so It was definitely meant as a big compliment to you.

[@Aleksanderespelid]

Eyyyy fun to see you exploring the local area! Living in Aarhus it's easy to forget that people actually come to explore. And I had 1000% forgot that the "tallest" point is so close.

[@uffeden]

A small fun fact, the stone you where standing on at Mølllehøj (Millhill) is actually from an old windmill, it was used to grain the corn to flour.

[@NatashaBergen]

Whaat really?! Love this!

[@michael7054]

Great video! Its interesting how the highest peak in Denmark ended up being land owned by a farmer 🚜 🐖 :)

[@ThorPalsson]

Always a joy watching your videos

[@pengeric922]

Enjoy your video,Thanks for sharing.

[@yvonethier5253]

So proud of what you three do. ❤

[@SharmanSomerset]

You’re a legend, thank you for brightening up my day x

[@fxhzl]

Loved watching this! Thank you for sharing. The shots from the new camera were exciting! 📷

[@rickybuhl3176]

The glee with which you dive into these.. Kudos.

[@toddgoranson5395]

Quality edu-tainment!! Thanks for this!

[@NatashaBergen]

Love this name for it! Thank you 😁

[@natiashavladze3634]

Always wait for your inspirational videos 💕 and yes, your positiveness is so contagious ☀️ You are the best

[@NatashaBergen]

Thank you for that and so happy something good is contagious these days 🤗 YOU are the best 💛

[@mikkelandersen2328]

A lot of fun watching you taking on the large challenge... of the danish public transport outside the larger cities. But pretty cool, looking forward to the next peaks!

[@omlille]

Thank you so much for another great video. Love your energy and that you always make me smile when I watch your videos.

[@NatashaBergen]

Awe 🥹 thank you for the kind words! So happy to hear 😁

[@Lachithor]

Hi Natasha, the first video I saw of yours was the one from Copenhagen and I really enjoyed it, you have such a cool vibe. Then in the end of that video you teased this one, and just for s split second I saw a picture of my home town Skanderborg and I just had to keep watching. I might be bias but I just loved the whole thing, as I mentioned before your whole vibe is just my style and the storytelling aspect is just so lovely. The quiet beginning in what seemed to be a very slow day in Skanderborg (we can be busy too, I promise:D) where the whole bus thing didn't work out to you traversing the steep hills of Ejer Baunehøj being told by the weather gods that this journey isn't just any journey to then ending on your peak in sunshine watching rainbows and eating danish pastry. Thank you so much for this wonderful video and this will for sure not be my last video of yours. Also this cow is for sure one of those "dangerous" cows ;P (also a little fun fact if you want, the very colourful flats you filmed near the waterside in Skanderborg is a new project (not finished building them yet, as of November 2023) that is called "Lille Nyhavn" or Little Nyhavn" which is inspired by all the colourful buildings in Nyhavn, Copenhagen that you just visited in your previous video)

[@NatashaBergen]

Wow!! Thank you so much! I'm so happy you enjoyed it and even cooler that your hometown is Skanderborg! 🙌 It's super interesting that they're building a Little Nyhavn, it makes me curious why 🕵️‍♀️ I hope you'll like the next Denmark video too 😁

[@mrbrenta1]

Nice one Natasha! Looked like fun 😂. Like the new camera too x

[@NatashaBergen]

It was indeed a fun party of one 🤣

[@user-pb7zy7rp9s]

Well done.. another summit i have to master... maybe early 2024... getting ready to book my balkan 3 peaks tour too...

[@etumwesiga]

Your stories are inspirational. I watch and read your travels in the Travel Inspiration Magazine.

[@NatashaBergen]

Thank you so much 🤩

[@flemmingengel4795]

I love you and your videos so funny.. lovely story telling

[@NatashaBergen]

Thank you so much 😀

[@SinaFarhat]

Nice! :)

[@ITubeTooInc]

Too bad you didn't get to go to Himmelbjerget too. Although not the highest, it's the one with the prettiest view and climb next to a big lake and by far the most visited of the hills by tourists.

[@gozamite]

Natasha and her new Insta360 camera!! Yes the views are better but in this video the attitude is the best!! The amazing way of seeing things from the funny side... Great work!

[@NatashaBergen]

I'm so glad you enjoyed!! 😁 Even the quirky humour 😉

[@NukaNerd]

Random fun fact. While other countries call pastry "a danish", we in Denmark call it Vienna Bread (wienerbrød) 😄

[@NatashaBergen]

No way?! Super interesting fun fact 🤩

[@poulmadsen7969]

Thanks for sharing. It sounds like you went on a great crusade! As a kid I learned the Yding Skovhøj was the highest, but no-no, it was later discovered that Ejer Bavnhøj was much higher by 1 meter. ONE METER! Are you kidding me? Ha ha, who cares. I didn't know about Møllehøj - you pronounce it spot on. Please come back

[@NatashaBergen]

It's quite the odyssey indeed 😂 and very unexpected story! I will definitely be back! 🤩

[@larspeterthomsen9798]

2:25 I live in the area. Those buses are always effing late.

[@NatashaBergen]

Ohhhh is that it? 😅🤣

[@MikhailTravels]

Привет 🙋🏼‍♂️ Великолепное и интересное видео 🙂📹👍🏻✅️🔝🫠

[@Mike-zx1kx]

The adventure combined with the danger of climbing peak after peak without oxygen equipment, harnesses or even a local guide blows my mind. Truly a woman of my taste. Thor and Odin tried to throw challenges at but in the end, awarded you with a full rainbow pointing you to the real pots of gold, the top of the real, but secret, twin-tops! I understand you are in Scotland as I write this and what a disappointment their small bumps now must be for you he-he. Many a longship ago some exploring Danes sailed there and came across the strangest phenomenon, and as a Dane I feel the need to warn you,! Old tales tell of crazy monks setting fire to their monasteries and throwing their stuff at the arriving Danes. Because of the long distance I have not been there myself but think twice before approaching overly religious people in this strange area...... I hope you reach your target subscribers, so you have the opportunity to visit the other great nations in the Kingdom. Greenland and Faroe Islands awaits you! Beautiful people with beautiful and unique nature. That are flights where you wanna make sure to get a window seat!

[@biankakoettlitz6979]

There is a saying:' It is so flat, that you can see on manday who visit you on sunday😀'.it's a saying from the coast of the Northern Sea in Germany but it is true for Denmark as well, I think😄

[@NatashaBergen]

Oh that is hilarious! I love that saying it's so fitting! 😂

[@Joliie]

cows are just big dogs that are really curious :)

[@josteingravvik2381]

🙂 The Danes could do like Finland and "borrow" a peak from us (Norway) !! We have quite a few to spare !! 😉 Great video !!

[@NatashaBergen]

Hahaha oh wouldn’t that be the next great debate!

[@andyykmeryiddothomsen7411]

You´re such a likeble person😊

[@triroli71]

I'm not 100% sure, but the Reunification Tower wasn't built there because they thought it would be the highest point, it was just a nice piece of land to build on. The tower on Ejer Bavnehøj was built in 1924 to commemorate the reunification of Southern Jutland in 1920. Btw, a similar story will await you in Lithuania

[@NatashaBergen]

Very interesting! I learn something new every day 😁

[@bjornbear6856]

😆😆🤣🤣😎😎I told you! Not that high...🌦⛰ OH! And that guy in the car.... (he could be a killer😲😨😬) I really like the new camera you've got and the angles you shoot in. Really nice! I've also found out that watching your videos early in the morning, for me, is the best time to watch them. Because there is ALWAYS food in them! And it always make me hungry! So then I can go eat breakfast! Nice huh? (Good thinking... 😁😂) Just outside my little town we have a "mountain" where you can ski and stuff and it is staggering 260m above sea level!!! Take that Danish people!!! 😆😎 I loved this video Natasha! HIGHEST PEAK 15!!! CHECK! ON TO THE NEXT ONE!!! Be safe Björn

[@NatashaBergen]

I'm rolling on the floor for this comment 😂 Look at you with that 260m, impressive indeed 😉🤣 You new morning strategy is also great! It's pretty much inevitable at this point... there needs to be food right? So glad you enjoyed the vid, I'll keep trying to maintain this style 🤩 On to the next one! (yes more yummy food to come) Have a nice day Björn!

[@bjornbear6856]

@@NatashaBergen You too Natasha!

[@relax9056]

🤣Hahaha hilarious! You are the best Natasha🤩! Watch out for Bessie🐂! Congratulations on "peak"⛰😉 15.Thank you for the research! As I`ve said before, love the food part😛😂! All the best!

[@NatashaBergen]

Whoop whoop! Yes a narrow miss from Bessie... phew 😅 So glad you got a giggle it makes it all worth it 🤩

[@annihandberg2348]

Tak!

[@NatashaBergen]

Thank YOU! This’ll go towards the next peak plan in Finland 😄

[@rhb.digital]

your laughs are too funny.. Greetings from a dane. Sorry bout the rain 😛

[@mesterplayer3486]

fun fact i work there :D

[@mehmetdalmizrak1952]

👍👍👍👍

[@beartastic-ftw]

So if they find another peak next week will you come back?:P

[@NatashaBergen]

100% yes 😉

[@Bronzescorpion]

Cows are naturally curios, so if something new is happening they are going to check it out. When I was studying biology we would do surveys on fields where cows were grassing. They almost always came and stood in a big circle around us. They stay a few meters away from you, close enough for them to see what is going on, far enough if the new thing turns out to be dangerous. Only once did I fear that a bull was being a bit too territorial, otherwise the cows are just calm and curious.

[@NatashaBergen]

Yeah I get the same feeling, however I do know some stories of people being chased or headbutted by cows, so I tend to keep my distance.

[@kimflycht2258]

As You correctly assumed "Danish pastry" is not called that here! We call it Wienerbrød!!!! The name comes from the 1850'eis when there were a big strike amongst bakers in Denmark mostly Copenhagen!! To make bread the owners imported workforce from Vienna and they brought some recipes form their homeland. Through time Wienerbrød have changed to what You see and know today as "Danish" (not the people, the pastry!! That would otherwise bee creepy!!) In the beginning of the 19 hundreds a Danish company named Alfa invented a special Margarine that was prefect for Wienerbrød, called Rolling-margarine! It makes it easier to roll the dough in layers that normal Margarine This gives the more crisp crust You have in authentic Danish Wiennerbrød compared to the much softer flaky crust of butter baked pastry! Happy trails wherever You go! Kind regards the Danish Viking

[@NatashaBergen]

I SO appreciated this info! I had no idea there was so much to it! Thank you for sharing 😄

[@hoegild1]

You are very lucky to get away from those cows! Those are the dreaded Danish raiding cows (you can see it on the horns)- and they would have robbed you if they had caught you!

[@NatashaBergen]

I knew it! That intensity in their eyes… ouf 😅

[@mathiasiversen7848]

Ouch - Copenhagen has amazing public transport, Jutland does not.

[@Akephalos204]

**** narrator with menacing tone*** Møllehøj….. many tried to climb it ….. ….. everyone succeeded

[@NatashaBergen]

Literally laughed out loud 😂 LOVE IT *in high pitch voice*

[@Akephalos204]

@@NatashaBergen ahahah have a nice day!!!! I enjoy your videos

[@karpov7233]

Danish public transport could improve I must say, the actual climbing was not the challenge

[@NatashaBergen]

So true, funny surprise there! To be fair the door also gave me a challenge 😂🤣

[@najken]

Haha, the smells like cowshit scene was funny

[@NatashaBergen]

makes me think of home 😂

[@bjrnbendixen5694]

You gotta be the toughest woman with the hardest will and the most percestent mind in the world. I would have backed off by the bus station and goned to a cafe. Sure do enjoy your vids.

[@NatashaBergen]

Hehe thank you! I definitely needed a coffee after the bus situation ;) haha!

[@bodan1196]

Soo... Denmark is as flat as Sweden is long? ;-)

[@NatashaBergen]

Wow love this - it's like a clever riddle, well kind of a riddle 😂