“I got the idea back in 1972 when I did a gravity survey in the border area,” retired Norwegian geophysicist Bjørn Geirr Harsson said in a new film about the proposed gift, Battle for Birthday Mountain.
For a while now, plans have been building to gift Finland a mountaintop as part of its 100 years of independence celebrations.
But at its heart is something real and relevant,” David Freid, director of Battle for Birthday Mountain, told The Local.
“While we witness the rising tumult along international borders — from Ukraine and Russia, to the South China Sea, to Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico — the idea behind ‘Birthday Mountain’ is a rare international gesture worth admiring.”