By Robert Jasper and Stefan Glowacz
May 3, 2008, Baffin Island
Free climbing from 9 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon. Then until 10 pm, technical climbing in a bitterly cold, though grand, landscape. Robert, Mariusz, and Klaus got about four rope lengths up. Tomorrow it will be Holger, Klaus, and myself in the line-up. We are under great time pressure. The latest that we can stay is May 20th, and then we must return through the marsh to the Clyde River. Besides, the ice threatens to break before our approach. We are under enormous stress. We've also come into contact with polar bears. So this is how we planned our vacation... A hungry polar bear passed within meters of our camp, frightening us, before wandering away. It is a wild, stirring land. But for inconceivable reasons we would want it no other way...
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