Baffin Babes Documentary

In this documentary we follow the adventures of four cheerful, life-affirming and dauntless young women who set out to challenge snow, ice and bitter cold, conditions made worse by the stresses and strains imposed by cramped living quarters, on an 80-day journey through the varied landscape and awe-inspiring scenery of Baffin Island. In the winter of 2009 four young Scandinavian women - the Baffin Babes of the title - undertook a gruelling 1200-km trek across Baffin Island in the Canadian arctic. Over a period of 80 days the girls covered the distance on skis, hauling laden sledges weighing 120 kg each across wide expanses of pack ice, skirting tortuous inlets hemmed in by precipitous walls of rock, and over treacherous glaciers. Temperatures often fell to 40 degrees below zero and it took four sleeping-bags each to keep warm! With polar bears an ever-present hazard and only a pump action rifle for protection, the girls camped huddled together in a space of four square metres - which tried both their friendship and spirit of cooperation to the utmost. Postproduction by XAPF / Helliventures / Moving Adventures