Americans Henry Penfold and Caleb McDaniels are set to begin a five‑month, 2,300km journey around the coastline of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Beginning later this month, they plan to combine skiing, hiking, and packrafting to circle the world’s fifth-largest island. It's not a complete circumnavigation, as they cut off several corners, but it is a massive undertaking. Conditions at the start in Iqaluit, the capital city of Nunavut, ar…
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