The place
Climbers made the fjord's name: in 1996 Mark Synnott, Jeff Chapman and Warren Hollinger spent 36 nights in a portaledge on Polar Sun Spire's 1,300 m north face. Jumpers come by snowmobile from Clyde River. Chris McNamara and Melissa Andrzejewski flew wingsuits off a top of Kiguti and out over the fjord to camp; in 2010 one of Baffin's biggest BASE expeditions stayed a month.
Is it legal? Outside the national parks, and no rule names BASE; Inuit Owned Land needs the QIA's permission.
- 2exits to start
- 3more to find
The exits and launches
2 exits you know from the start. 3 more are out there for whoever walks the rim and looks.
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Kiguti
■■■■■The expeditions' cliff, two hours up the back from camp on the sea ice: 3,000 ft over the fjord off Kiguti's north top, 780 m of it sheer, then the talus, and the ice flat for kilometres to land on.
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Cross Pillar
■■■■■The Great Cross Pillar, across the fjord from Kiguti: 660 m over the ice at the mouth of Walker Arm, the face steep rather than sheer for its first 200 m — push hard and track.
