CREDITS AND BRIEF SUMMARY

Peakbook.org - brief historical summary

Peakbook.org began in 2009 as a small project aimed at systemizing information about norwegian mountains above 2000 meters. The project grew into a more generel web site dedicated to mountains and mountaineering. During 2010 the site has lead a relatively anonymous life. Yet a few people has contineously been contributing, whilst others have found the site to be a great tool for registering tours and ascents as well as keeping their peaklistbagging automatically up to date. All this in spite of limited functionality.

On the 6th of december 2010 a milestone took place. Despite a lot of functionality still was (and is) missing, the circle is in a way closed through this milestone. Most of the information is now interconnected. Via the new portal the information became much more easily accessable. With the introduction of a forum, support and discussions regarding further development is much easier. In norwegian there was also a thorough help documentation throughout most of the site available to this release.

As mentioned, it alle began as a small project, where Morten Helgesen hired Christian König as programmer. Many has since then been helping out, especially in the process of adding mountains to our peak database (none mentioned, none forgotten). Sondre Kvambekk has been a great contributor and supporter and a devoted tester.

Sources

Among the people adding peaks to the database there has been numerous valueable sources. Below is a list of all the sources that comes us to mind at the moment. Some might be missing as we don't have a complete overview of all the sources our users might have been using.

• Norwegian Mapping Authority - The map material of the norwegian mapping authority has been the main source for peaks in Norway.
• Wikipedia - Is a regular source with summits in most countries.
• Petter Bjørstad's extensive web site has been an important source. Especially regarding norwegian peaks with very high prominence
• Westcoastpeaks is the great home page of Arnt Flatmo. It has been used as a source for mountains in Møre og Romsdal in Norway.
• Database of British Hills (DoBH) is a truly amazing source and extremely useful for mountains in the United Kingdom. It is the main source for British peaks included on Peakbook.
• Toppomania - Åke Dahlen has a rich home page with lots of peak lists of different sorts.
• Peakbagger - American site with a wealth of peak lists, statistics and other information.
• Peaklist - Web page with a wealth of peak lists from all around the world.
• Google maps - Google maps is a great too, but as a source for detailed topographical data it is less useful. Still this service has been used as a source at times where no other sources were available.
• Lantmäteriet - The swedisch mapping authority. A source for swedish peaks.
• Finske kartverket - The finnish mapping authority. A source for finnish peaks.
• World Wide Vikings - Norwegian site with peak database, lists and possibilities for digital peakbagging. The site has partially been used as a source regarding norwegian island peaks.
• Glittertind Forlag - Source behind peaks and articles regarding norwegian peaks above 2000 meters.

If any relevant sourves has been omitted, it is not on purpose. Please notify us if this is the case.

In addition there are many other great sites dedicated to us mountain lovers. Here are some, and please tell us if you know others that should be mentioned here.

• Summitpost Probably the largest general web site about mountaineering on the internet.
• 4000er - (tysk and english) Web site dedicated to the 4000m peaks og the Alps. You can also register your own ascents of those there, in addition to much more.

Supporters

• Glittertind Forlag has contributed financially with server and development costs in the initial phase.
• Fjellforum has been and is a valuable channel for giving out information and marketing the project a bit.