I beg to differ.

I read today that some climbers are coming to the Clyde River area to scale some rocks. It's going to take the three climbers 20 days to climb the rock face. This means that at least some of the time they will be sleeping hanging on the wall of granite. This climbing website states that "the main feature of Great Sail Peak is its NW face, which is a sheer 1150m wall," and that it looks like this:

Courtesy of Google Earth, I can see that Stewart Valley is about 100 km from Clyde River:

The red dot is Stewart Valley; the blue dot is Clyde River.

As awesome as sleeping in one of these

sounds, the part I love the most is that the article also states: "They hope not to encounter snow storms, which are unlikely in such a cold environment."

Really? Have they done their research? Can weather patterns differ that much within 100km in the Arctic? Because this was our front porch last week during a storm that lasted from Saturday night to Monday evening, that blew winds at least 100 km/h. At 8:30 PM we cleared the area of accumulated snow to start fresh.

9:54 PM	1:43 AM
Preparing to shovel at 1:47 AM.
Opening the door to put the snow outside would have been just plain dumb, not to mention futile.	9:28 AM

Knowing that our house, that is built on pilings drilled far into rock, really shakes when the winds get up that high, it doesn't seem like a brilliant idea to be sleeping hanging from a rock face while the wind howls and the snow blows.