These days it has been fixed with two centimeters precision: Sweden's highest point is Kebnekaise's northern peak with its 2096.8 meters above sea level. The icy South Peak, which previously held the title, is currently "only" 2095.6 meters. At least another month.

Changes during winter

- We measure the height just when the melting period ends. Then the snow will come and the South Peak will move again, says geography professor Ninis Rosqvist who is at Tarfala research station.

- We measure the height just when the melting period ends, says Professor Ninis Rosqvist

Kebnekaise's southern peak consists of solid rock up to 2060 meters, all of which also consists of glacier ice. Anyone who went to school in the 1970s and 1980s learned that Sweden's highest mountain was 2111 meters high, but it was then. Since then, the ice cap on the southern peak has become just over 15 meters thinner.

Already last year came the news that the southern peak lost its record status, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

- The precision of one of the measurements last year was not high enough, so the results are too uncertain. But this year we can say with two centimeters that the southern peak has dropped and that the northern peak is 1.8 meters higher, says Ninis Rosqvist.

Snowfall is not enough

Every winter, the snowtop Sydtoppen is raised by several meters. Not least last winter was unusually snowy, but that was not enough to offset the summer's melting.

- It is mainly cool summers that allow glaciers to grow, not snowy winters. A couple of hot summers in a row eat hard on such a small glacier as this one.