Expedition
to the Torngat Mountains
Day
1: Thursday, August 9
The Adventure Begins
Our
expedition to Akpatok Island, in the middle of Ungava Bay,
turns out to be a disappointment. With the lousy weather conditions
and fog on the island, one year's planning and dreaming change
in the space of two days. No Akpatok. No polar bears, no sinkhole
exploration, no examination of the camp sites of the Oxford
University expedition of 1934...
Growing
impatient, and fretting over the time we're losing (we are
on vacation after all), we make a quick decision to change
our destination for the Korok River in the Torngat Mountain
Range, which constitutes the northern border between Québec
and Labrador. The group's mood lifts - no more waiting for
the weather to clear. Our Twin Otter pilot gets the okay for
the Torngats. We're moving again.
After
an hour-and-a-quarter flight over the heavily glaciated landscape
of rock, boreal forest and muskeg, and glimpses of winding
streams and eskers, geese, gulls and a black bear, we see
Mont d'Iberville looming ahead. The crew searches for the
landing site, we circle a few times and finally land. What
a site for base camp: we are at the foot of a gorgeous rock
wall a few hundred metres high with a steep talus slope at
its base. The adventure begins...
Day
2: A Rock Falling
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