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Baffin Island Climber, Canada, 1999

"Jared Ogden follows a painstakingly laid 'rope highway' toward the summit. Below stretches the ice lake of Stewart Valley, ringed by a fortress of largely unnamed, never climbed peaks. Says photographer Gordon Wiltsie, 'It was like discovering an Arctic Yosemite Valley.'"

—From "Hitting the Wall," January 1999, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Gordon Wiltsie