Torngat Mountains

The Torngat Mountains rise at the northern end of the Labrador Peninsula, their steep slopes cut by valleys leading between Ungava Bay and the Labrador coast. Inuit travelled these valleys and hunted caribou among the mountains, leaving stone blinds and food caches behind them. The range was also a place of spiritual power: before the arrival of Moravian missionaries in the eighteenth century, Inuit shamans came here to seek the help of spirits.