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After 3 years of planning, Steve Hall takes viewers along with him as he backpacks through Akshayuk Pass in Canada's Auyuittuq National Park. The spectacular scenery on Baffin Island includes Mount Thor, which has the greatest vertical drop of any mountain in the world, and Mount Asgard, which has a unique cylindrical shape with a flat top. On his journey, Steve must deal with the weather, raging rivers, unstable moraines, and morale-draining wet bogs.

A 7-minute portrait of climber Paul returning to Baffin Island three decades after a life-defining epic, reckoning with risk, age, and the grace of walking away—while still preserving his lifelong love of climbing and adventure.

The climbing brothers Thomas and Alexander Huber (Germany) attempt to conquer free the infamous "Bavarian Direttissima" (upper tenth degree of difficulty) on the iconic Mt. Asgard on the Arctic Baffin Island (Canada). A 40 days expedition with polar bears, frostbite and climbing at the peril of their lifes.

1961. In Kapuivik, an Inuit man named Noah Piugattuk and his compatriots are visited by a white man who says they have to move to a reservation.

Through interviews with Inuit across Nunavut, and documentation of a three-year community hearing process during the COVID pandemic, award-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk explores what meaningful consultation in the 21st century means within the context of a large-scale mining expansion on Baffin Island.

Most summer holidays don’t involve skiing hundreds of kilometres over a frozen fjord in the Arctic Circle, but adventurers Erik Boomer and Sarah McNair-Landry are not most people. On a romantic getaway with a difference, the duo set off on a 45-day expedition through the remote landscape of Baffin Island in Canada, in search of stunning cliffs to climb and unexplored rivers to white-water kayak.

The climbing brothers Thomas and Alexander Huber attempt to conquer free the infamous "Bavarian Direttissima" (upper tenth degree of difficulty) on the iconic Mt. Asgard on the Arctic Baffin Island (Canada). A 40 days expedition with polar bears, frostbite and climbing at the peril of their lifes.

Attempt to make the first free climbing of the Mount Asgard.