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Robert Edington
03-12-2014, 4:03 PM
Someone posted a link to a youTube video of a guy building a cabin in Alaska. I watched it and now I can't find it. There are so many videos about this guy I can't find the same one which focused on his building of the cabin. Can someone tell me if it was here I got that link and how I can find it again.
Thanks
RP

Dave Dula
03-12-2014, 4:17 PM
http://www.dickproenneke.com/ there is also a book. It is a wonderful documentary

Matt Marsh
03-13-2014, 11:52 PM
You must be referring to "Alone In The Wilderness".

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss

Bill McNiel
03-14-2014, 12:03 AM
I bought this documentary from PBS years ago. The work this man performs with the most basic tools is beyond fantastic. Amazing man, awe inspiring.

David Weaver
03-14-2014, 7:38 AM
If you like the wilderness aspect of the documentary, there is a newer documentary about a guy named heimo korth. I think it's done by Vice, so it's completely different (plus heimo lives with his wife, and the two of them are alone in some territory area in alaska), but it goes through how Heimo manages to live almost entirely without assitance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0rZn8HFmQ

(Heimo supports himself as a trapper, so if you have issues with trappers and skinners, you probably shouldn't watch the video)

James Conrad
03-14-2014, 7:49 AM
You can purchase Proenneke videos and books from Alaska Geographic (http://www.alaskageographic.org/store/category/alone-in-the-wilderness-zz):
I enjoyed reading his Journals.

Chris Damm
03-14-2014, 7:50 AM
Our local PBS station has shown it at every pledge session (every 2 months) for the last 10 years. While I enjoyed it why to they take off the regular shows to show 10+ year old reruns and expect us to send them money?

David Weaver
03-14-2014, 8:45 AM
One of the great things about the digital setup is our PBS now has .1 through .4 channels. .4 is never anything but fundraising. Sometimes it creeps to .1 to .3 channels, but the content has improved and it's less often.

If all of them have fundraising on them, then it's time to watch something else. A lot of the internet documentary makers (like Vice) have more interesting and more raw documentaries, anyway, and you don't have to wade through shows like B-rate lounge singers from europe being presented as the next frank sinatra or a bunch of girls in green dresses pretending to play the violin while they're running and jumping in some awful overproduced prerecorded production.

Robert Edington
03-14-2014, 9:17 PM
Thanks for all your responses.

RP