"We went to a few small villages when we were in the north of Greenland and Baffin Island, " Lizoain told CNN.

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Mr. Hall died during a base-jumping expedition to Baffin Island in 2007.

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Leo Houlding, for example, parachuted into Baffin Island in the Arctic Circle, then spent weeks climbing an iced-up rock tower called Mount Asgard, only to leap from the top in a wingsuit.

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