Six weeks, two glaciers, seven big walls and one pink flamingo: four friends take on Baffin Island in Ocean to Asgard
VANCOUVER, B.C. – August 21, 2026 – Ocean to Asgard, the film about four friends who paddled and climbed their way across Baffin Island, starts streaming Friday on the environmental documentary streaming platform The Green Channel
The Green Channel begins streaming Ocean to Asgard today, a film following four friends on a six-week, human-powered expedition through Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island.
Bronwyn Hodgins, Jacob Cook, Zack Goldberg-Poch, and Thor Stewart spent a year planning the trip. In July 2019 they set out from Pangnirtung, an Inuit hamlet in Nunavut, riding the tide 30 kilometres up the Arctic Ocean fjord in inflatable packrafts. When the river turned too steep to paddle, they shouldered their packs and walked another 30 kilometres up the valley and across two glaciers to reach the base of Mount Asgard.
What followed was seven big-wall ascents in near-constant daylight, climbed in two teams. Hodgins and Cook established a new route on Asgard’s South Tower in a single 20-hour push, and later put up The Niv Mizzet Line, which the team believes may be the first 5.13 climbed in alpine style anywhere on Baffin Island. Goldberg-Poch and Stewart topped out an unclimbed sub-summit after 27 continuous hours and named it Mount Zacky, on the grounds that Thor already had a mountain on Baffin with his name on it.
He climbed that one too. All four summited Mount Thor, which has the greatest vertical drop on Earth, completing what the team had written down as the expedition’s major goal: climb Mount Thor with Thor. He summited in viking horns.
Not everything went their way. On Mount Tirokwa they turned back after three pitches of loose rock, a dropped camera, a core-shot rope, two dropped shoes, and a dislodged block that exploded past Goldberg-Poch and Stewart at a belay. They named their three-pitch high point How to Epic in 3 Pitches or Less and got back in the boats.
The last thing they did was the part they talk about most. Back in Pangnirtung, they put up posters around town advertising a day of rock climbing. About 20 local kids turned up, and the team spent the afternoon top-roping with them on cliffs near the community. When the kids asked to go again the next day, the team was already flying home, so they left bolted anchors in place for whoever comes next.
“There’s a version of this story that’s all summit photos and hard numbers, and Ocean to Asgard isn’t that,” said Scott Renyard, founder of The Green Channel. “It’s four friends looking after each other in a place that doesn’t care whether they make it, and then spending their last afternoon teaching kids in Pangnirtung to climb. That’s the real heart of the film.”
Ocean to Asgard was directed by Heather Mosher. It is streaming now on The Green Channel, the environmental documentary streaming platform.
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