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Dream Trip: Ice Climb Baffin Island and Greenland
Ultimate Adventure Bucket List: Famed ice climber Will Gadd's must-do dream trip is to go ice climbing on Baffin Island and Greenland. See all our Adventure Bucket List trips.
It all started with a rumor. From friends who have flown over Greenland and Canada’s Baffin Island to scout for minerals and tourism, Will Gadd heard about the possibility of ice-climbing gold: huge granite fjords spackled with frozen waterfalls. “I think there is likely more ice in the Baffin Island-Greenland sweep than anyone suspects,” says Gadd. “But it's really, really hard to get there.”
Gadd plans to wait for conditions to ripen during the winter of 2011—12 before he heads up on a private expedition to investigate. He expects to find a host of 2,000- to 3,000-foot waterfalls in places so far north that they don’t see the sun for as much as two months out of the year—perfect conditions for intrepid ice climbers. “It’s like Yosemite Valley but a lot more of it,” says Gadd. “And no, I can’t give you the GPS coordinates.”
Next: See Will Gadd's Must-Do Trip: Ice Climb Rjukan, Norway
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Ice Climber
Canadian ice climber Will Gadd has established some of the hardest mixed rock-and-ice climbing routes in the world, and he has won the ice climbing World Cup, three golds at the X Games, and four golds at the Canadian National Sport-Climbing Championships. He has also kayaked dozens of first descents in North America and won the U.S. and Canadian Paragliding Nationals.
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