Mount Thor

Mount Thor
	Mount Thor, 1997
height	1675 m
location	Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island in Canada
Mountains	Arctic Cordillera
Coordinates	66 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ N , 65 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 66 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ N , 65 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W
First ascent	1965 by Donald Morton and Lyman Spitzer
particularities	Highest vertically sloping wall in the world

Mount Thor is a mountain in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island , Nunavut , Canada . The highest steep face in the world is at least vertical on the mountain. It measures 1250 meters and has an average angle of 105 degrees.

The first ascent of Mount Thor was achieved by the astrophysicist and passionate alpinist Lyman Spitzer .

In the concert film The Song Remains the Same by the British band Led Zeppelin , the mountain is shown during a dream sequence. Meanwhile, the song No Quarter , which is about the Norse god Thor , plays.

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Individual evidence

^ Mark Synnott: Baffin Island . Rocky Mountain Books Ltd, 2008, ISBN 978-1-894765-98-5 , pp. 15 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Donald C. Morton: Lyman Spitzer: Astronomer, Physicist, Engineer, and Mountaineer . In: L. Armus and W. T. Reach (eds.): The Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Cosmos (= ASP Conference Series , Volume 357), Proceedings of the Conference Held November 9-12, 2004 in Pasadena, California, USA , 2006, pp. 1-6

[1] Mark Synnott: Baffin Island . Rocky Mountain Books Ltd, 2008, ISBN 978-1-894765-98-5 , pp. 15 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] Donald C. Morton: Lyman Spitzer: Astronomer, Physicist, Engineer, and Mountaineer . In: L. Armus and W. T. Reach (eds.): The Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Cosmos (= ASP Conference Series , Volume 357), Proceedings of the Conference Held November 9-12, 2004 in Pasadena, California, USA , 2006, pp. 1-6