Jean-Philippe Bélanger, Yan Mongrain and Charles Roberge established three new routes up to 170 metres using a helicopter around 120 kilometres north of Sept-Îles at Haute-Moisie not far from the border of Quebec and N.L. Their first objective was a three-pitch climb 500 metres south of camp. On the last pitch, they spotted four wolves that had noticed the noise of the climbers. They called the 180-metre route Patte Blanche WI5. The following day, they climbed a new route they called La Tanière, a 170-metre WI5. On their fourth day, they climbed the most intimidating route, which followed three pitches of steep, three-dimensional ice through roofs and along pillars. Bélanger, Mongrain and Roberge called it Maïkan, which means to wolf in local Indigenous languages, a 150-metre WI6+.—Gripped…
