As he walked, the light of the setting sun suddenly took on a blood-red color that it imparted to the clouds. As Munch himself claimed, at that moment he felt "an infinite scream passing through nature.
Years later, researchers located the site above a fjord overlooking Oslo on a road leading to Oslo from Ekeberg Hill, at the foot of which was a psychiatric institution where Munch's sister was being treated for manic-depressive disorder.
