The pack ice had begun to disintegrate. He got trenchfoot. It was a very epic epic.
“A Tough Act to Follow – Charlie Porter’s Wilderness of Pain: Baffin Island,” Feature (174) p.56 in Climbing Mag.
Wikipedia notes that: Doug Scott, "Mount Asgard", in World Mountaineering (Audrey Selkeld, editor), Bulfinch Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8212-2502-2. says he also did this ten day retreat without food.
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