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.

These remote national parks in the high Arctic of Nunavut's Baffin Island feature jagged, frosted mountain ranges, traditional Inuit villages, glacier-carved fjords, and vast, uninhabited tundra.

A British adventurer is aiming to become the first woman to solo travel across Canada's Baffin Island. Battling temperatures as low as -40C, Camilla Hempleman-Adams, 32 and originally from ...