Watercolour and crayon
©2017 Charlene Brown
This huge granite
spike is located in Auyuitttuq National Park on Baffin Island in Nunavut.
I’ve seen it described
as the coolest-looking mountain in Canada... Okay, I can agree with that, given
that its 1250 m west face is the longest purely vertical drop on earth. But it’s
also been described as the meanest-looking mountain in Canada, which I couldn’t
understand until I realized they were talking about climbing it! Apparently
there were 30 attempts to climb Thor Peak before a team managed to scale it in
1985. It took them almost five weeks – what were they thinking?
