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Great Sail Peak, Canada, 1998

"Gleaming in pale northern light, the mist-wreathed upper reaches of Great Sail Peak offer [article author and climber] Greg Child only the narrowest seam in which to insert pitons and hang rope ladders."

—From "Hitting the Wall: First Ascent of a Baffin Island Peak," January 1999, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Gordon Wiltsie