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This is the story of the first person – Jack Bennett – to climb the highest point in each of the Canadian provinces and territories. This story will take you from a remote bushwhack in Nova Scotia to a multi-pitch rock climb up a new route on Mt Nirvana in the northwest territories to a glaciated peak on Ellesmere Island only a few hundred miles from the north pole. We climbed many of the Canada highpoints together and used this book extensively for planning. At the time this book had some of the only published information on some of these…

From Eric's list on peakbagging and highpointing.

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