Baffin Island: An Arctic Adventure (award-winning film)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- “If you don’t like freezing cold weather and fierce blowing winds, then Baffin Island and the Arctic are not for you.” These words by explorer Steve Hall accurately describe the harsh climate awaiting most hikers who come to Baffin Island, even in the summer. After 3 years of planning, Steve takes viewers along with him while backpacking through Akshayuk Pass in Auyuittuq National Park, located in Nunavut, Canada. Spectacular scenery is seen while passing by mountains, lakes, glaciers, rivers, and waterfalls. This 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. But seeing these sights in person and hiking in the Arctic presents great challenges to deal with such as enduring the weather, crossing raging rivers, climbing unstable moraines, and dealing with morale-draining wet bogs. As he takes on these challenges, Steve becomes the first person in nearly 2 years to backpack to Mount Thor, while hiking from Overlord West to June Valley.
This award-winning documentary features three original songs co-written by Steve: “Weasel River”, “Baffin Island”, and “Snowy Owl”. Winner of Best Documentary Feature at the New York International Film Awards. Winner of Best Documentary Feature Film at the Five Continents International Film Festival. Winner of Best Indie Filmmaker at the Festigious International Film Festival. Winner of Best Song (Award of Prestige) for "Snowy Owl" at the Vegas Movie Awards. Winner of Honorable Mention: Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Film Awards. Winner of Honorable Mention at the Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival. Filmed and released in 4K HD.
Here is a front page news article regarding the trip and film:
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And here is an interview with Steve regarding the trip and film:
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I am from pangnirtung and Peter is my uncle, what a small world that I found this video of where I’m from and for my uncle to have been in this video
Thats so cool! Neat place!
Back in 2018 I've been in Pang and the Park and honestly, everyone should know Peter. Best and coolest Outfitter I've ever meet.
Best regards up there
I am beginning to believe that God does his best work in the mountains. "" What a wonderful world ". THANKS .
I am a 73 year old Canadian lady who has had a wonderful life exploring North America. I loved your video. Last year I visited the Yukon and Alaska by car and loved every moment. What a beautiful country we have. Thank you for showing me an area that I will never see with my on eyes. Loved the video. Thanks again.
In 2003 I had the privilege of spending the summer working in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut which is on Victoria Island. The western portion of the island is part of the Northwest Territory. The eastern portion is Nunavut. The 24 hr day , the tundra, the sea coast, the lakes and rivers and mallards, eiders, Canada geese, Arctic char, foxes, seals and Musk oxen made for a majestic experience that is fresh on my mind 20 years later. Thanks for this video. To anyone reading this, if you ever have the opportunity to explore the Arctic do it-you’ll never regret it. 😊
PS all the cairns that Steve is talking about are known by the Canadian Inuit people as Inukshuk. They are constructed precisely to guide the way across the endless expanse.
I'm a swede at 35 who have seen your comments on this video and others of northern Canada and find it and them very cool! ❤
I flew a twin otter all over Baffin in the 70”s. The experience shaped my entire life.
ass canadian (well expat now) I have to say that this is magnificient...I never even opened the door of my imaginatiion on Baffin Island ..or google mapped it...yet I (had to) draw dozens of maps in primary school and write that name legibly ...It's written on my brain and you have open the door it was written on ...thanks STEVE !
Well done man. Thanks for showing a part of Canada that most of us Canadians will never see in person.
What an awesome journey. Thank for taking us along.
Incredible hike, wild spectacular landscape, not a soul around, as if on another planet. Thanks for sharing. I have always dreamt of such a hike or a north Canadian cruise but I live in a poor country far away, and have no financial and technical resources, nor visas for Canada. In a way you made my dream come true.
Glad I could share this beautiful place with you. Thanks for your comment.
I flew over Baffin Island on a flight to Hamburg, it was Nov. 1987 and there was very little snow or ice. The mountains were amazing and it looked so inviting. Wish I could hike there.
I can never thank you enough for making this movie.Blessings always
Thank you for one of best videos I have ever seen !God Bless you !
Thank you, Bert. Appreciate the thoughtful comment.
WOW!!!.....One can tell the valleys and chasms that one day were filled w/ice.......
soooo nice! those peaks (Thor! Asgard!) and glacier valleys, the many river crossings and lakes, the solitude, and the changing weather and strong wind... it reminded me a lot of my place down under in Patagonia. This film was a pleasure to watch. greetings from wild, wet, windy and wonderful Western Patagonia, Chile
As a kid in primary school in Melbourne Australia in 1966, our teacher told us about Baffin Island and it seemed to be a remote and distant place.
I did this in the early 80s, from Pangnirtung to Summit Lake and back. A wonderful adventure,
Sitting here with covid for more than a week, missing nature, my wife and I really enjoyed this video. Thanks.
I'm awestruck!
An amazing and most unique journey, Mr. Hall! You accomplished something most people would not even dare to try! Full Speed Ahead in your next quest! 🙂
Thank you for sharing this with us who will never get to go there!! It was amazing. So much beauty.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS BEAUTIFUL RECLUSIVE PLACE OF MOTHER EARTH. WE WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN IT EXISTS.
I have experienced the wind and cold. Blizzard stuff. Total darkness. A plane crash. Yikes. Something you never forget.
"It is like Yellowstone but nobody is here" Love it! What an amazing adventure, thank U for sharing with us.
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful experience. Loved your music. Yes, what a blessing ❗
Great site seeing. I hope you enjoyed the trip. Great job recording for those that are un able to see the place. Great experience watching you from Canada
well worth taking a look at a part of Canada we rarely see. Awesome landscape well captured on video
Absolutely magical! I would defenitely recommend this video. THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
This was an absolute pleasure. What an adventure you were on. I love the attention to filming, from the major attractions, to the finest details and observations. Thank you!
This was an amazing experience going with you, virtually, on this backpacking tour of Baffin Island. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you RUclips for suggesting this channel. This is such a relaxing viewing. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
It looks like you lost some weight on the trek but a wonderful way to travel and see all that beauty.
I loved your video and attention to the details and even taking extra effort to capture the river crossing. Thanks a lot. ❤
Wow! The mountains are different, can't believe they're on the same Island as here. Sure would love to pick up one stone from there.
Great picture, great narrative, simply great. Thank you! God bless you always!
Thank you so much for going out to explore and sharing it with us!
Enjoyed this glimpse of the park. I lived in the settlement of Broughton Island, the name I knew it by in 1974 to 1975. My husband did the trip in March of 1973 by skidoo, travelling south from Br, Is. to Pangnirtung, it was quite the adventure as they had to negotiate frozen falls at the end of the trip. Thankfully we have photos, not easy to get back in the 70’s when trying to keep your camera warm, inside your parka for body heat was the only chance of it working but hard to do on long overnight trips. Hope you get to repeat the trip by skidoo from the top end, perhaps in March/April while the pass is frozen, maybe not so many polar bears on the move at that time.
WOWWW!! THANK YOU!!!😊
Steve Thanks for sharing your spectacular experience and all your efforts allowing us to experience this landscape. I was moved by the songs too.
Thank you - incredible
Massive thumbs up for your educated humble prudence at the end my friend. Your reasoning was absolutely solid. Good call and great film loved every moment!
Very enjoyable. Thank you
New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦
Incredible. Thank you for taking the time an effort to produce this.
Thanks for these spectacular views of the sights on Baffin Island. Amazing!
Absolutely fantastic. Great commentary. Other youtubers should take note. Not over wordy, not about him, good quality speech & good pausing. Bravo
You are so brave to venture out into this magnificent wilderness. I very much appreciate these videos, at least I get to experience places like this, that I know I will never get to see in real life!
I can see Labrador across the Strait of Belle Isle from my place at the northern tip of Newfoundland. I love the scenery and landscapes there. Your walk through that Canadian National Park was incredible. What incredible beauty and what an amazing place to walk. And to be there alone. Wow!
The north shore of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, where my place is, is considered the southern extent of the sub-arctic alpine biome. Had a polar bear show up one spring when I was there. Got a great shot of it out my bathroom window. One of my neighbors saw the bear cross the road near midnight on her way home from the second shift. She called the RCMP and Wildlife Officer and then, knowing that I went out walking in the morning by myself, she called me. So glad I had warning. She may have saved my life!
Great adventure. Sad to loose a couple of days, but on the other hand such a dramatic end to the trip retracing your steps from a helicopter. Amazing!
Thanks! So helpful for our 2022 hike. Couldn’t ask for more! I’m so grateful for your film. It helps for preparation especially safety wise and I’m even eager now for the trip! Thanks again!
Stopping by to say no matter what, you had an epic experience most don’t ever get to have. Loved watching your hike. No shame in bowing out. Polar bears are no joke.
What a marvelous post! Thanks so much.
Thank you for a wonderful experience complimenting a trip on the seas at Baffin Island.
Thanks for the amazing journey to such an isolated world 👍🏻👍🏻
Well Done Steve, incredible footage you took, with meaningful narrative.
Thank you, Eric
Thank you so much for sharing this adventure to the Arctic. Loved every minute of it. Although I live in Australia, I have always had a fascination with the Arctic. I have been fortunate enough to travel to the Arctic in Alaska twice, to Barrow in 2005 and to Coldfoot in 2014. Once again, thank you.
Explored wonderful place. High hills, lakes rivers, stony land. Good cinematography depicting natural & mysterious places
Thank you for taking us to this fantastic journey! I just hope to have the chance to visit there someday too!
Thank you for this film. Back in fifth grade (and long before the existence of youtube) we did projects about Canada and I chose Baffin Island as a subject. Awesome getting to see real footage of it up close. It's absolutely stunning compared to the few photos (and my imagination) I had seen as a kid.
Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
Wow !! Amazing footage, good choice of music. I flew over Auyuittuq many times but walking through is still a dream for me. I got a ride of boat and reached the end of the fjiord where you started to walk,, so good memories.
Thank's for sharing that to the public, an unknowed territory for many peoples, unfortunately.
Thanks for bringing me along on your adventures. Your films are awesome,
Excellent work, I was very interested in the Arctic the last couple years thanks to my interest in the Franklin Expedition I thought about visiting sometime but wasn’t sure after watching this my interest has multiplied, I really enjoyed it , I watched the hour and 40 minutes which I didn’t think I would before watching, I really enjoyed the trail on the coast of California, great quality filming 👍👍🇨🇦
Wow, I'm honored to have found this gorgeous film!
Thank you all (Steve especially) who put effort into this fabulous production!
Fascinating!
Beautiful scenery and the easy commentary was relaxing to listen to. I bet Steve is a great hiking companion. It's a little too bad we never met his bear guard, even though we saw him once or twice in the background.
The bear guard is a nice person but did not have a good experience out there. The weather, terrain, and harshness of the environment took a terrible toll on him.
I just watched your video on y tv ad had to come back to my tablet I was just enthralled with your adventure. My parents would have loved to do a similar hike. They were very much hikers and backpackers. Sadly they are gone now so I watched it thinking of them and how much they would have enjoyed following you. Sorry my typing is poor. My lap top is waiting to be replaced so I have to peck peck on my tablet Thank you again.
Amazing documentary of an amazing trip. Thanks for sharing. Been up in the north several times and this is one of the places I want to see. Thanks ~GrizzLee
I commend you for a difficult trip; the film was worth it.
Superb …. God bless you ! Lots of good wishes n luck from India
Wow. Fantastic stuff
Beautifull Steve. Realization my dream. Slands North Extreme.
Hey Steve, I have to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your video. It brought back so many memories about the hike and all the great time up there. Your video is just amazing and so I was able to get back there even when I was at home.
Thank you so much ❤
Thanks for sharing your comment and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I guess we both know how you feel up there. All the Pictures in your Head.
Hope one day you manage to get back and hike the rest. But also jealous for your Helicopter flight down the valley. 😂
Very interesting…thank you.
Outstanding my man.
Awesome Footage
For some reason, baffin islands mountain ranges give off a scary almost nightmarish vibe.
Don't ask me why.
The shelter at Windy Lake is on the opposite side of the Weasel River because that is where the foot bridge used to be. The bridge was washed out in 2010. The Ulu Shelter wasn't there when we went in 2012. It was on the other side of the Weasel.
Thank you for sharing your truly awesome adventure.
incredible adventure! thank you...
Excellent film!
Jeez, great work, really. Will definitely be planning an adventure there in the near future
Amazing video with stunning scenery, I absolutely loved it. Greetings from Australia 🦘
You think it was a sight for you? I'm in Florida!
I can't imagine this is amazing video if some one want to trek in Baffin
Very well done video
good video, bros,thanks
I have been semi planning this for a few years now so I really enjoyed your documentary. You did a great job. What an incredible location.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing this.
This was excellent thank you for sharing. I think the story of your interaction and experience with the bear monitor might make its own very interesting story if you have lots of footage. Two people alone out there, one descending mentally and physically and the other trying to have the experience of a lifetime.
Spectacular and gorgeous!
Excellent adventure, excellent video. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
This was superbly done. The landscapes are surreal and magnificent, worthy of a trek such as you attempted. We are all happy you left it where you did.💐
Thank you, Peter. Glad you enjoyed the film and scenery.
Gosh what a gem . Thanks
thank you so much for taking us with you .. Asgard/ just wow.. sad you had to cut it short, sucks your companion got sick but it did make for some great video from the helicopter... what an amazing adventure Roxana and i thoroughly enjoyed every minute
Loving every minute of this. Thank you! I’m somehow becoming obsessed with artic landscapes over the last couple of years and this hike looks like it hits the spot for me. Thank you again for sharing this with the world. Hugs
Fantastic!! Thank you so much for sharing. I learned alot. Such beauty❤
Awesome
Great video of glacial tills and moraines. Pristine nature.
Excellent trip. Lucky for you that you went on the reverse route and got in all the best scenery. 👍
amazing footage, thank you for your effort, guidance and helpful information
Spectacular! Video. I know it was difficult and you are much appreciated and acknowledged.
Such a magnificent video! After seeing the marvelous program I find it so hard to believe that there are so many people who still don't believe in a Creator GOD!
Amen.
So brave!!! It's comforting to hear someone speak English in such remote desolate noman's land!!! I admired this guy!!!
I once heard someone said everyone got their own way of having fun!! So true!! If I was put out there, I would asking for Jesus!!! 😆 To me it's completely jurassic world, without dinos!!
I watched each and every ad to show support which I never did for any vid on this tube thing!!
It's extremely comforting to know towards the end that there had been someone travelling all along!!