Dick Proenneke - Alone in the Wilderness

[kiwi_2005]

I watched this last night just blew me away what this man aged 51 did while living in the wilderness. Retired at 51 went to the bush & built a log cabin and lived their for 30 years on his own. At 81 he decided to go back to his home town cause of the weather conditions and age was catching up on him. If you can get your hands on this video i recommend every man watch it young and old. The documentary shows him building his log home step by step using his tools no chainsaw just a man with his axe and pick. Tough as an ox.

Wonder if hes still alive if he is he would be hitting 100 and are their more documentaries of him living the rest of the years in the wilderness. I think he only made one as far as i can tell.

This is what i want to do one day go back to the bush and live off the land. Except i will have electricity and the internet

Here's a 10 min Youtube vid of the documentary

Documentary tells the story of Dick Proenneke who, in the late 1960s, built his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now Lake Clark National Park. Using color footage he shot himself, Proenneke traces how he came to this remote area, selected a homestead site and built his log cabin completely by himself. The documentary covers his first year in-country, showing his day-to-day activities and the passing of the seasons as he sought to scratch out a living alone in the wilderness.

Edit: found his website: http://www.dickproenneke.com/

And he did make a couple more of his living in the wilderness