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  • Apitak Iqaqrialu, an Inuit elder, sits on frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Mark Synnott, exhausted by hauling huge bags up Great Sail Peak. Jared Ogden helps.  Stewart Valley below. (MR)
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  • Alex Lowe looks for gear to use on a very difficult aid climbing pitch, high up Great Sail Peak on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Greg Child rides in a komatik sled pulled by a snowmobile, en route to a climbing expedition on Great Sail Peak north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Expedition members exult after the first ascent of the north face of Great Sail Peak, an arctic big wall climb on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Alex Lowe (MR) prepares for hook moves, aid climbing high on Great Sail Peak.
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  • An Inuit hunter waits by a seal breathing hole north of Baffin Island.
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  • The North Face of Great Sail Peak glows in the midnight sun above purple saxifrage flowers in the Stewart Valley, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada, Jared Ogden jumars above bivvy high on Great Sail Peak.
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  • Young Inuit guides tickle Alex Lowe's foot as he exercises while storm-bound in hut on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. John Catto risks a dangerous flare-up while lighting a hanging stove in Portaledge camp, high on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada, Climbers on huge ledge, Great Sail Peak, above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • Mount Asgard towers above a glacier in Auyuittuq National Park on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Great Sail Peak glows in midnight sun above saxifrage flowers in the  Stewart Valley on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Expedition members exult after the first ascent of the north face of Great Sail Peak, an arctic big wall climb on Canada's Baffin Island.
    BI 6369.jpg
  • Alex Lowe reaches the summit plateau of Great Sail Peak after a six-week rock climb north of the Arctic Circle on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA.  Alex Lowe (MR) climbs fixed rope above hanging bivouac on Great Sail Peak, Stewart Valley.
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  • Alex Lowe looks for gear to use on a very difficult aid climbing pitch, high up Great Sail Peak on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • A mountaineer looks out with surprise at a sudden meltwater stream that has suddenly started flowing under his tent on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • The late mountaineer Alex Lowe washes & shaves in an expedition base camp on Canada's Baffin Island
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Photographer's shadow leaps over Alex Lowe, aid climbing high on Great Sail Peak. Stewart Valley below.
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  • Mountaineer Greg Child bundles up against in sub-zero temperatures during a scouting trip to Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) climbs difficult "aid" high on Great Sail Peak above Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Photographer's shadow leaps over Alex Lowe, aid climbing high on Great Sail Peak. Stewart Valley below.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Alex Lowe makes difficult hook moves, aid climbing high above Stewart Valley on Great Sail Peak. (MR)
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  • Mountaineer Mark Synnott dozes during a ten hour belay as Alex Lowe leads extreme aid climbing on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big-wall rock climb on Canada's Baffin Island. (An automatic belay device would catch a fall).
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA.  Expedition stops to repair snowmobiles on Remote Peninsula, between Sam Ford Fjord and Stewart Valley.
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  • Mountaineer Mark Synnott ferries loads to the base of Great Sail Peak, above fog in Stewart Valley on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Bathed in sunset light, mountaineer Mark Synnott scouts for rock climbs from a ski plane flying over Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • A mountaineer aid climbs high up a big wall on Great Sail Peak, a massive cliff on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Inuit mukluks & modern mitts dry in a hunter's hut on Canada's Baffin Island, where an expedition is storm-bound for 4 days.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Alex Lowe makes difficult hook moves, aid climbing high above Stewart Valley on Great Sail Peak. (MR)
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  • Mountaineer Mark Synnott ferries loads to the base of Great Sail Peak, above fog in Stewart Valley on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • A Big Wall climber hauls heavy bags up an Arctic cliff on Baffin Island.
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  • An Inuit hunter surveys frozen Eclipse Sound north of Pond Inlet.
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  • The midnight sun circles over fog and cliffs above the Stewart Valley
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  • An elderly Inuit hunter relaxes, bathed in midnight sun.
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  • Mountaineers relax during a month-long, big-wall ascent of Great Sail Peak.
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  • A rock climber belays above foggy Stewart Valley, high on Great Sail Peak.
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  • Tourists ride in komatik sleds behind snowmobiles on frozen Eclipse Sound
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  • A rock climber leaves a hanging bivouac camp on an Arctic cliff.
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  • NUNAVUT, CANADA. Tourist camp in sedge meadow on Bylot Island, beside frozen Eclipse Sound and north of Baffin Island (bkg.)
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  • A polar expedition member gathers snow to melt for water.
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  • Alex Lowe relaxes in a hanging Portaledge camp 1700 feet above the glacier on Rakekniven ("The Razor"), a massive overhanging cliff in the Filchner Mountains of Queen Maud Land Antarctica.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND,  Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter Laimake Palluq hides behind portable blind while stalking a ringed seal sleeping on frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Thawing sea ice on Baffin Bay, near Clyde River. Due to global warming, the sea is melting earlier each year, wreaking havoc on Inuit hunting methods, as well as the life cycles of most Arctic wildlife.
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  • An Inuit hunter pokes his harpoon at an iceberg frozen into the sea ice of Baffin Bay, west of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.  This source of remarkably pure water has drifted in from the rapidly melting icecap of Greenland.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter Laimake Palluq hides behind portable blind while aiming at ringed seal, Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Inuit guides, snowmobiles & Great Sail Peak expedition members beside icebergs on frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter Jayko Apak (MR) looks for seals on frozen Sam Ford Fjord, Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) runs across frozen Baffin Bay, north of Arctic Circle.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND,  Nunavut, Canada, Inuit hunters Laimake Palluq & Jayko Apak study fish beside a seal breathing hole on frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunters Laimake Palluq & Jayko Apak look for seals on Frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit guide walks by stranded boat on Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter Ham Kadloo shoots at a seal on frozen Eclipse Sound, north of Baffin Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mountaineering expedition & its Inuit guides' snowmobiles parked by iceberge on frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Iceberg locked into ice on frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter, Jayko Apak (MR) waits for seals on ice floe near Clyde River.
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  • Snowmobile-bourne tourists watch a polar bear cross frozen Baffin Bay north of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Inuit hunters Joannasie Apak and Apitak Iqaqrialu from Clyde River hamlet on Baffin Island, melt snow for tea on their Coleman Stove as they take a break cross the frozen sea ice of Baffin Bay.  Behind them is an iceberg trapped by the winter freeze.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, CANADA. Alex Lowe (MR) & iceberg on frozen Baffin Bay, near Clyde River in Nunavut.
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  • A helicopter ferries picks up a climbing expedition after the team spent six weeks climbing the wall in the background, north of the Arctic Circle on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunters pull komatik sled through white-out conditions in a blizzard.
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  • NUNAVUT, Canada. Mountains & frozen fjord on Baffin Island, north of Arctic Circle.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA.  Belvedere Ridge & Sam Ford Fjord (capped by Broad Peak on left). Polar Sun Spire above Walker Arm foreground.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunters surround fishing hole they are chopping in frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • An Inuit hunter waits by a seal breathing hole north of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Houses in Pond Inlet rise above the shore of Lancaster Sound, north of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.  Behind are mountains on Bylot Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA.  Mount Asgard in Auyuittuq National Park.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Snowmobiles carrying Great Sail Peak expedition break down just after leaving Clyde River.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Inuit offerings left on summit of Great Sail Peak by climbing expedition.  Stewart Valley bkg.
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  • Mountaineer Jared Ogden photographs Mark Synnott and Alex Lowe atop Great Sail Peak, high above the spectacular Steward Valley, north of the Arctic Circle on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) climbs difficult "aid" high on Great Sail Peak above Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter, Jayko Apak (MR), chops fishing hole in frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Expedition snowmobiles into Stewart Valley, a setting of huge polar cliffs.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada.  Apitak Iqaqrialu, an Inuit clan elder of Clyde River, drives his snowmobile, wearing traditional caribou parka.
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  • An Inuit hunter waits by a seal breathing hole north of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Icicles drip from disintegrating sea ice blocks on the shore of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) exults after shooting video of spectacular Arctic mountains during aerial scout in search of rock climbing objectives.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, CANADA. Inuit woman sells frozen Arctic char in Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay), capital of Nunavut, the new Inuit territory.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Jared Ogden & Alex Lowe enjoy a hot drink in portaledge tent high on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott belays as Alex Lowe leads extreme aid climbing high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic, big wall rock climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley. (MR)
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Young Inuit guides, Ben Illuaq (L) & Romeo Palluq by hunting cabin north of Clyde River.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit children goof off in a sub-zero storm outside their house near Clyde River.
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  • A helicopter ferries fuel drums to a remote geology camp north of the Arctic Circle on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Greg Child & Mark Synnott endure extended rain in portaledge camp high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall rock climb.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Greg Child (MR) in snowstorm on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunters sit out a storm in a tent, catching up on regional gossip on a short-wave radio.  (L to R: Laimakie Palluq, Jushua Illuaq & Joannasie Apak).
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Inuit guides tie snomobiles together to tow heavy load up hill en route to Great Sail Peak expedition.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit Guides prepare to load snowmobile sleds (kamatiks) in Clyde River.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit youngster plays outside on swing in sub-zero temperatures at Clyde River.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. Climbing expedition members entertain high school children in Clyde River, Nunavut.
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  • Hoarfrost crystals on disintegrating sea ice north of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Alex Lowe makes difficult hook moves, aid climbing high above Stewart Valley on Great Sail Peak. (MR)
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada, Great Sail Peak.  Expedition route goes just right of central summit gully.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Bathed in midnight sunlight, Great Sail Peak, which towers above the Stewart Valley, north of Clyde River, is reflected in a snow-melt pool, beside purple saxifrage flowers (Saxifraga oppositifolia).
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit snowmobiles pull mountaineering expedition members across frozen lake in remote Stewart Valley, north of Clyde River.  The temperature is below zero, F, and Sail Peaks are in background.
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  • Young Inuit hunter Ben Illuaq aims his shotgun at a snowshoe on the tundra of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe pushes Inuit snowmobile carrying expedition equipment to Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada.  Alex Lowe (MR) ascends rope above hanging camp on Great Sail Peak, on last day of month-long, Arctic big wall climb above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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