MOUNT ASGARD IN BAFFIN ISLAND.

Mount Asgard is the most famous and most beautiful peak in Baffin Island, the 6th largest island in the World. There are few mountains in the World with so striking a profile as that of the North Tower seen from the Turner Glacier. It is a sight that has inspired big-wall climbers for more than 30 years.
By the Inuit, Mount Asgard is known as "Sivanitirutinguak," and is located in Auyuittuq ("the land that never melts") National Park, on the Cumberland Peninsula on Baffin Island, in the territory of Nunavut.
Nunavut is close to the size of Mexico yet has a population of around 35,000, which are most Inuit.
The park straddles the boundary of the Arctic Circle, the Penny Ice Cap flows through much of the park and is in places over 300 meters deep.
In Norse mythology, Asgard was the ancestral home and fortress of the Norse gods, and the home of slain heroes fallen in war. Located in the heavens, Asgard was only accessible over the rainbow bridge, known as Bifrost. Asgard had places of gold and silver, the most beautiful of which was Valhalla. Valhalla was the residence of Odin, the chief god. Norse myths held that Asgard would be destroyed at a battle called "Twilight of the Gods" (Ragnarok), the final confrontation at which demons and giants would overcome the gods.
Asgard is located in the Penny Highlands along the side of the Akshayuk Pass which is the 100 km long pass, that crosses the Cumberland peninsula between Cumberland Sound and David Strait, and one hikes from one end to the other where you usually arrange for transportation back to Pangnirtung, the nearest Inuit settlement, approximately 60 miles from there.
Mount Asgard towers 2,015 m, making it the 5th highest peak in the park and one of the highest peaks in Eastern Canada and Eastern North America. The peak is composed of  twin cylindrical, flat-topped summits separated by a narrow, 150-metre-deep notch, 1,000 meter high. The cylindrical granitic towers along with the awesome faces on Breidablik and Mount Thor have caused many to compare the region to the area around Fitz Roy Mountain in Argentina.
 The North Tower was first climbed by the Swiss team in 1953. This was one of the first technical routes done in Baffin. The South Summit, the more cylindrical of the two with the daunting sheer face, was first reached in 1971. On Asgard's West Face (North Peak) there are several grade VI routes which have been established for the rock climber eager for a very serious challenge. In terms of big-wall climbing, Asgard is most famous for the North face of the North Tower, home to what is the greatest concentration of wilderness bug walls on the planet.
In 1976, stuntman Rick Sylvester performed a base jump, skiing off the mountain with an Union Flag parachute for the opening sequence of the James Bond film "the Spy Who Loved Me," although the fictional setting was the Austrian Alps. The stunt team and film crew reached the summit by helicopter.