The "gateway" to Sarek. View from Lake Laitaure looking upstream. The mountains bordering the delta area in the upstream part of the lake are: Skerfe to the right; Tjakkeli to the left; and the lower Nammatj in center background.

Sarek is the largest and the most glacierized high mountain region in Sweden with a large number of peaks higher than 1800 m a.s.l. The highest of these mountain peaks is Sarektjåkko, 2089 m a.s.l.

View from Pårtetjåkko (2005 m a.s.l.) towards mountain peaks reaching through the cloud-cover.

The Sarek mountains are deeply dissected by numerous valleys. The smaller valleys often debouch hanging into the larger, often troughshaped valleys. The central part of this high mountain area is drained by the river Rapaälven.

View from Pelloreppe looking across the upstream, the central, and the downstream part of Rapaselet, a deltaic floodplain.

Several lakes which formerly existed upstream of the delta in Lake Laitaure have been filled up by delta sediments. The largest of these deltaic formations, Rapaselet, has a length of about 12 km and is situated in the central part of Rapadalen (the valley of the river Rapaälven), about 20 km upstream of the Laitaure delta.

View from Pelloreppe looking across Sarvesvagge, the valley of the river Sarvesjokk.

The river Sarvesjokk is one of the largest tributaries to the river Rapaälven. These two rivers meet at Telmavadet, a fordable place at the proximal part of Rapaselet.

A very large part of our knowledge about the Sarek area comes from the scientific investigations, conducted by Axel Hamberg (file in Swedish), who spent practically every summer during the years 1895 - 1931 in Sarek.

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