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Sep 28, 2023 · Let’s delve deeper into the origins of ‘Eight Below’ and determine whether it is a true story. Eight Below is Based on Real Incidents Adapted for the screen by David DiGillio, it is a remake of Koreyoshi Kurahara’s 1983 Japanese film ‘Antarctica,’ which is inspired by the ill-fated incident that transpired during the Japanese ...
- Stay Busy to Stay Alive
- Don’T Underestimate How Much Food You’Ll Need
- Cherish Heat Sources
- Create An Effective Shelter
- Stay Put and Be Selfish
- Travel Efficiently
- Pay Attention to Your Layering System
- Fight Polar Bears with Fire
- Embrace The Silence
Throughout the movie, we frequently hear the chirp of Overgard’s digital-watch alarm, an ongoing reminder to stay on top of his daily tasks. Larsen was impressed with his ability to keep moving, a necessary but difficult effort on any Arctic expedition. “Your brain wants to just relax and check out,” he says. “It’s really hard to keep on that sched...
Speaking of sustenance, when Larsen embarks on an expedition, he carries all of his food, even taking care to preslice items like cheese and salami both for efficiency’s sake and to, say, avoid lopping off a finger if his knife slips while sawing through a frozen block of cheddar. Overgard, however, doesn’t have this luxury, so he takes to ice fish...
After Overgard scavenges a stove from the downed helicopter, the score quiets as he lights it, then huddles around its warmth. Larsen’s been there. “When we do these expeditions up in the Arctic and the Arctic Ocean, that heat from the stove is the only thing that separates us from animals,” he says. “To have this heat that you’re not producing on ...
Larsen thought that Overgard’s digs—the interior of his downed plane’s fuselage—were better than spending the night exposed to the elements, but needed some work. “When it’s minus 20 or minus 10 or zero outside, unless it’s, like, 24-hour daylight, it’s going to be pretty close to that same temperature inside,” he says. Realistically, Overgard shou...
Larsen also takes issue with Overgard’s decision to go out to find help. He would have stayed at the shelter, especially after witnessing the helicopter crash. “To me, it seems like other people would be out looking for this additional craft with some information on where it was going, because it’s theoretically doing a rescue mission,” he says. If...
While we don’t see Overgard posthole all that much, he certainly doesn’t have it easy trying to navigate the unforgiving terrain without anything like snowshoes or skis. “I have to be honest, one of my least favorite things is walking in the snow,” says Larsen. He would have improved his ability to move across the landscape by improvising skis from...
One of the key elements to survival in the Arctic is staying as dry as possible; wet clothing and sleeping bags lose their ability to insulate. To manage this on an expedition, Larsen spends hours each night drying his clothes in a stove-warmed tent. Overgard, of course, doesn’t have the same option when he’s on the move wearing a filthy red parka,...
Early in the film, Overgard spots polar-bear tracks near his camp, something Larsen has dealt with during multiple expeditions. “It’s very stressful, because you know that you’re not the top of the food chain,” he says. “You’re in an environment where this animal, one of the supreme predators on the planet, can live comfortably without effort and c...
The film is notable for its stark silence, something Larsen experienced during his recent South Pole solo speed attempt. “I really related to that kind of quiet, deliberate thoughtfulness,” he says. “You’re focused on the task, you’re living in your own mind, so a lot of the time it’s not necessary to talk.” Still, he always brings music along to k...
10. The Lost City of Z. 2016 2h 21m PG-13. 6.6 (100K) Rate. 78 Metascore. A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s. Director James Gray Stars Charlie Hunnam Robert Pattinson Sienna Miller. 11.
Apr 22, 2018 · Directed by Alastair Fothergill and co-directed by Mark Linfield and Jeff Wilson, the antarctic adventure Penguins is now slated to arrive in theaters on Earth Day 2019. Get a peek at the ...
Mar 2, 2022 · The three travelers departed the Alabama with their dog-led sledges on September 26 and trod slowly over league after league of precariously pliant ice. “Often the ice was so thin that we could ...
Oct 19, 2001 · "The Endurance" recounts one of the history's greatest tales of survival, Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica. The expedition, Shackleton's third, followed the tragic death ...
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Dec 24, 2020 · Two of the greatest living polar explorers went to investigate the extent of the melting Arctic for themselves. It almost killed them. Borge Ousland and Mike Horn leave their sailboat Pangea and ...
