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Its west face falls about 1,250 metres at close to ninety degrees. The figure is taken from Parks Canada, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Mount Thor has the greatest vertical drop on land

Its west face falls about 1,250 metres at close to ninety degrees

Mount Thor stands in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island in Nunavut, and its west face is a sheer granite wall. Climbers rate it among the hardest big walls in the world, with one continuous overhang. The peak is remote enough that most expeditions fly in and camp on the glacier below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Its west face falls about 1,250 metres at close to ninety degrees. The figure is taken from Parks Canada, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.