More Details on Baffin's "Long Way Home"

During six weeks from April to June 2008, German alpinists Stephan Glowacz and Robert Jasper, together with photographer Klaus Fengler and cameramen Holger Heuber and Mariusz Hoffman, traveled by snow machine from Pond Inlet to the northeastern coast of Baffin Island, Canada, where they made the first ascent of "the Bastion" via Take the Long Way Home (5.13 A4, 21 pitches, 2,300'), one of Baffin's most difficult, before literally taking the long way home—skiing and kiting 350 kilometers back to the safety of Clyde River...

Taken from: Alpinist Magazine.