"This is Kaktovik, Alaska." "It's March, and it's white as far as the eye can see." "I have said my farewells with my family in Norway." "It may take three years before I see them again." "I'll travel across Canada" "I have with me my six dogs and a video camera." "They'll be my sole companions." "The dogs have thick fur and can stand to be outside in -40." "They love to draw the sled." "I've prepared with experts in meetings over eight years." "Now it's serious." "80% of the luggage is dog food." "I have kerosene to melt snow for drinking water." ""Listen to local famous people" - That's the rule I follow." "If you were going to mush here, what would you look out for?" "The weather." "That's a big one right there." "The weather." "Dogs and..." "Snow blindness." "Yep, two pairs of sunglasses." "All kinds of game." "You have grizzly bear." "They're out this time of year." "Really?" "Yes, they're coming out." "Woke up two weeks ago." "I'll cross a desert which is four times as long as Norway." "Sled and ski in the winter, and walk and canoe in the summer." "Good girl, Viema." "We crossed some fresh tracks in this area." "I thought it was a polar bear, but it was wolverine." "Out on the ice." "The driver and curs on the ice yet." "The place is just east of the sea ice." "There isn't much to navigate by." "I can use the snowdrifts which shows the direction." "Although it is April the winter is our luck, and it blows up a storm." "The first camp." "A little cold." "Just have to get in and fire the primus." "Today I was pinned in the storm." "It has just calmed down." "Still the snowfall's at knee height." "I've been quiet today." "I haven't seen a trace of people." "I haven't met anyone since I left the lodge at the start." "Canada continues to impress me." "Totally untouched wilderness." "The night was very cold." "There were a couple and forty." "It was so humid yesterday,   so it was an ugly night." "Today I have day of rest." "I have to because I must make sense of a problem I've got." "Both of these aluminum runners are broken - can't connect." "But I'll think of something." "It is exhausting to jump up and down like a rabbit all the time." "I need to somehow try to use them." "Perhaps in connection with this, which launches the brakes." "We follow the sea ice, 3 to 4 hundred meters from shore." "It's best today." "Come on!" "That seems like I repaired it." "Come on!" "14." "April." "Day 13" "So far it has mainly been white tundra and sea ice." "Now it's the first time we really come upon a willow thicket." "Yes, yes!" "Come on!" "That it appears here." "That little black strip I haven't seen before now." "It'll be interesting to see how soon I can get a grouse shot." "This is grouse terrain, of course." "And then along comes rabbit instead." "It sat there." "Harepus ... rabbit ..." "Goody, goody." "This is good food." "Most goes to the dogs." "There's lots of food here." "It's thick with them here,   so I'm going to have to shoot them." "3rd May." "I stand by my "main channel" in Mackenzie." "Now it's rotten snow all day." "The snow behind me is one m deep." "You go right through the whole time." "Hopeless." "I have almost decided that it can be difficult." "What do you say, Rago?" "Jon?" "What do Du'a?" "And Du'a?" "What do you mean?" "Røa?" "Røa?" "You?" "So stay mute, then." "It's a little after midnight." "It's suddenly -12 degrees." "The snow has been harder   so now we make an attempt." "We'll see if it's easier to fly out of here." "It is of course, but how much easier it is, remains to be seen." "Yes, come on!" "Arctic Red." "Today is Sunday." "I came to Tsiigehtchic or Arctic Red River." "It's a small village with 160-170 inhabitants." "I arrived on Friday." "Now I have decided not to continue upstream." "That's a fight against nature, and it's unnecessary for me." "There's too much trouble from scooters,   dog bedlam and aggressive ravens." "I prefer a bit away, so I get a very quiet place." "Where I can keep up with for - Andri, gene on the river from day to day." "I look to relax, and see the development of the Mackenzie River." "Living In Tsiigehtchic are 200 Gwich'in Indians." "The place was called Arctic Red River previously." "As elsewhere in Canada, native peoples have taken back the old names." "Before, the Indians were nomads." "Today they live in mass-produced prefabs." "Most villages in Northern Canada are as follows:" "There's a shop, post office, school, health and maybe a motel." "In the villages I buy provisions and get mail and equipment from Norway." "To go with the dog on a leash in summer is completely hopeless." "As soon as they're loose, they run off." "I have to keep quiet in the summer, but I will be far from people." "I choose to go to Trout Lake - 100 km from the nearest village." "The plan is to be there two months, go back to Tsiigehtchic   and continue the expedition from there." "We fly over the tundra along the northern tree line." "Midst of this glory is Trout Lake." "I am pleased to be a young person, to fish and relax by the fire." "Just us and the wilderness." "Day 67." "It will be crazy delightful." "I have a folding canoe." "I hope to get as many fish that I can into both the dogs and myself." "Yihaa!" "Ho-ho!" "Now the fish!" "That's how it should be!" "Now there are two pots at noon." "This little pot's for the dogs." "And this pot is mine." "Today I take long trips with the dogs." "I don't mind having them loose." "Every time I change direction or start to go, I blow the whistle." "And the dogs follow." "It works incredibly well." "I'm very surprised." "The dogs fight among themselves to find out who's the boss." "Vierne's not the boss." "Has been knocked round by Røa." "Yes, you, yes." "You're bad." "This wound is so deep that I have to sew." "I must trick her into taking a couple of calming tablets." "A fishy bit with something plugged in." "See here." "The smallest of the day!" "This is number five." "It was the spinners." "It was the fish." "It was the fisherman." "One, two, three, four, five ..." "Hm, we lack one." "There!" "Not a gram under eight kg." "I have to hang up the food." "It's bear country,   although I don't have a sniff of any bear yet   we'll get the food up in trees." "There it goes ..." "First into the water!" "Summer's first bath." "It took 31 days." "It's been hot." "It says little about how glad of swimming I am." "It's not often you wash on such trips." "At least not me." "In short, I believe it's healthy to be dirty." "Away!" "Wake up!" "Hi!" "Away!" "Away with you!" "It's scary ..." "It's scary ..." "If this is a wrangler, " "He'll predictably circle around and around   then come on like a bullet, in full attack." "It has happened." "It has located and is heading back to me now." "You aren't allowed to be here." "I will not shoot at you." "I don't like that it's so close - consistently." "You are too inquisitive." "Hi!" "I haven't seen anything like it!" "The effect of the noise from the shotgun   is about useless." "He isn't intimidated by it." "Here's one of two:" "Either stay here   and let the bears continue to ravage." "It will do so." "It seems that there's a male which is used to being the boss here." "Maybe I have to kill it." "It would be very sad." "The alternative is to break camp, disappear   and set up the main camp elsewhere." "He cannot be put off." "He can't be scared." "It's quite clear." "Jon, come!" "You must come, you too!" "Røa-girl." "Not on board." "No, no, no." "Come on, Jon." "Is it the Coast Guard?" "Dogs follow me everywhere now." "We don't need to wait for winter." "The expedition can continue." "I feel sorry for you!" "Come on!" "Good boy!" "Holy shit!" "Now there's not much left, that is!" "This is the most perfect season to cross the bush in." "But it can get snowfall at any time." "That's why I'm kicking in now." "The first few days I have thought it out." "You have a dog stuck." "Fortunately, a noisy one:" "Vierma." "Vierma!" "It's good she's noisy." "That could have been one of the other dogs." "What happened here?" "Here you set." "This may happen any time." "Has it just slipped off you?" "Very good you made noise, so we can come and get you." "First day." "Now we have done four hours." "Now they go in a row behind me." "They have been good to go, for I have kept to the hilltops." "But there's no water here, we need to go down into the valley." "It is perhaps a five-hour march first day." "That's adequate." "This is the Thunder River." "We can walk over dry shod." "We must be careful on the edge." "Right, guys?" "Thunder River." "Done." "It wasn't weird stuff." "It's about half past nine." "It starts to darken." "When it's time to retreat to the bag." "Not true, Tallin?" "Better if you're not pushing the camera down..." "It darkens like that between half past nine and ten." "I'm good and full." "Lots of food." "Good night." "I just fired up the morning fire." "And now it has started to snow." "I haven't had time for first coffee, even." "Røa has reached full maturity." "She's midst of the worst period now." "These five male dogs, my "clan", are idiots." "Time I did something." "And what I should do then,   is to ..." "The victims item." "Boxer shorts." "Now you're cool, girl!" "That there is something to try on!" "Seems to work great!" "Holy shit!" "God help me for a gang, that is!" "So you don't fit in all the time, at least." "Today we may see what the Hare Indian River looks like." "It's about four hours march there." "It will be exciting." "Did you take a hare-to-go, Røa?" "Holy shit!" "That's what being on tour in the Canadian wilderness is about!" "Filthy pig!" "The worst I've ever seen!" "I feel sorry for you!" "When we arrived by Hare Indian River - look down there." "A wolf." "Looks to be lame." "And by the river, too." "There, we got something to chew on." "It's quite clear." "It does not single us out, in other words." "I'll keep the Gore-tex suit on." "Take off my underwear, stay in the Gore-tex suit." "Because they're there." "Oh, come on!" "This you can!" "Come on!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Come on." "Don't resist!" "Yes!" "Røa, came!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "There you go!" "Good boy!" "Emfy!" "Here!" "Over here!" "Come, then!" "I must go back and get Jon." "Hell!" "Come on!" "Holy shit!" "Now there's not much left, that is!" "For the past five treks in the country, this is going well ..." "So clever you are!" "It went well!" "We were just over on the other side there!" "Good girl!" "Yes, Aunevik!" "Wait then." "Good boy." "Oh, so clever." "Come, then." "Yes, so clever!" "And so, now." "Good girl, Røa." "Emfy!" "Damn not everyone came, then!" "It wasn't a total bomb." "Now I'll tether you here,   so I need to go back and get it done." "Then I let the camera lie." "I just have to get it done and get a fire fired up somewhere." "Now is all over,   but it cost a little." "Now it's just getting warm in the body." "Do it now." "Elk was in the camp." "I had to shoot it in self defense." "It was on its way to Rapp." "Here lie my seat." "There is Rapp and Vierma." "Top right is the moose." "Not much life here." "It's always a sin to shoot the animal in self defense." "But it's insanely good." "We will now revel in the flesh." "Now I shall go to the knife, " "Tussle in the woods and get more fuel,   and cook me a pot in between." "Dogs will gorge." "Almost as if the wilderness gods sent a present right into the camp." "For now, we needed it." "This should be really good." "I think I will start with type tenderloin." "Goody, goody!" "No food?" "Now, Vierma?" "Don't want more?" "It's really good ribs, yes." "19th October, I came up to Fort Good Hope." "Now just waiting for the ice on the lakes to get thick." "For the record:" "winter equipment I receive, and summer equipment, I give away." "At Yule, I hope to be there by Delin at Great Bear,   one of the world's largest lakes." "There are other days." "This is a cakewalk, because a guy ..." "One guy had bought a snowmobile in Norman Wells,   and then he just ran it back." "It's the track we are following now." "There's a difference of 300-400%   in relation to energy consumption and time consumption." "This is great!" "I drove fifty km yesterday." "Today maybe forty." "It's absolutely great." "We'll see how long it keeps up." "You never know." "It's reasonably cold to be out in 42 below." "Of course is it." "If you turn your face away from the fire, it's five minutes,   before your mustache is full of ice." "And the fire dies out in your sleep." "So we just make the best of it." "Ok, dogs!" "If we are up do we go?" "Åssen there with you?" "Hello, boy!" "Hello, Rago." "Has it been cold in the night?" "Hello, Vierma." "Are you going to get up, you too?" "Good girl!" "Good girl, Emfy!" "I have come forward to Delin." "It has been Yule" "The 600 who live here descended from the Indians." "There is no doubt that the missionaries have done their job." "When the missionaries arrived 150 years ago, they forbade the drum dance." "But they were fortunately unable to eradicate the old religion completely." "It's a warmth deep in the soul to see the Indians sing and dance." "Now the old women carry on a great sorrow." "It was at Great Bear that the U.S. mined uranium for nuclear bombs   during World War II." "The men were told to carry bags from the mines down to the boat." "The dust that got in their bodies caused cancer." "All the men died." "It was only in 1998 that the Indians learned about their cause of death." "Today Delin is known as "Enkenes village"." "It's Christmas Eve." "I'm going out and finding me a camp for the night." "And some night it is, too." "I fly between Delin and the wilderness outside." "But on Christmas Eve I will be in the bush." "It's quite clear." "It does the job!" "Minus 38 is cold." "Expect that you see it." "It means that ..." "This means that it's forty two and forty." "In the night." "This means starlit." "There are gifts I like." "Chocolate is the top gift!" "Good girl, Emfy!" "Good girl!" "Out of the Great Bear, which is good!" "The first bit's probably 90 km on Great Bear Lake" " Big Bear Lake." "There we have our companions." "Come on, Tallin!" "Good girl, Emfy!" "This is really cool Now we are at 15 km/h!" "Minus 15 cold, no more." "The sun is just behind the clouds here." "There's lots of blue sky." "This begins to smell of another season we have behind us." "A proper mental perk." "I have no more than this to keep me tight." "If I do this from here ..." "There's a vast wasteland feeling here up by the Great Bear." "Makan!" "It's of course the biggest inland sea I have ever seen." "It's the kind of distance ..." "This isn't a fuck up." "It's not a human being." "Holy shit, a huge lake that is." "I'm quite dumbstruck." "You don't land on the other side." "It's certainly 100 km right over here." "Just ice." "Pack ice." "World's most experienced wolf-hunter, Roger Catling, lives in the wilds." "He kills wolves for a living." "He has shot more than 3000." "I was surprised to see them out in the open like that." "Is that usual?" "Coming from the east, there's nobody between here and Baker Lake for 400 miles." "They weren't expecting to see somebody living here." "Generally the best time is in the early morning." "They come out at night   or right about now, they come out too." "These are pups, so they aren't real wise yet." "It's generally the females which do most of the killing." "They are faster and a bit smaller, a fair amount faster than the males." "Are they smarter?" "Yes, I think they are." "Your camera works in the cold?" "Yes, as long as it's not too long." "Leave the carcass on the ice as bait for the wolverines?" "Wolverine and other wolves come out and check it out." "How much is this pelt worth for you?" "500-600 dollar " " For a really good one, but for these pups, maybe 200." "Roger invited me home." "The wolves he hasn't yet skinned lie on the ice, thawing before skinning." "His kids aren't afraid of wolves - either dead or alive." "Quite a contrast to the wolf hysteria at home in Norway." "Have you heard of this guy?" "Sure." "Everyone in Norway has heard of him." "He is a national hero." "Roger knows the wilds like his own trouser pocket and gives me good tips." "But before I go, I get the chance to join the wolf hunt." "The white ones are hard to see out there!" "What a great way to grow up for kids!" "They see nature the real way!" "Beats the city." "Gives them a good start out here." "Who knows how they'll turn out." "What will you do when they get to school age?" "Are you going to teach them here?" "Yes - home schooling." "They read a lot on correspondence courses." "You don't see that much anymore." "Kids don't seem to read these days." "It's just computers and TV and stuff." "But you don't have the Internet?" "I could if I wanted to." "Maybe we will when the kids get older, but I'm not sure." "From Great Slave Lake to Hudson Bay it's unbelievably long." "There are at least 1500 km, and I have two months left." "We must go as far as possible before it's too warm and the snow too soft." "Now we have the right course on the north side of Ingstad Creek." "We will try to get there at the watershed." "We are part off course, a little too far west, but the wind is blowing us in." "It's much better than to bowl down the valleys with the powder." " this was a positive surprise!" "We are slipping away like eel in a buttered pan." "Beautiful terrain." "It blows like fuck though." "Come on!" "On the tundra the lack of forest becomes a major problem." "I melt 20 litres of water daily and we depend on wood for the fire." "Taking with me kerosene for the Primus, I can't carry enough." "I have to either use what's here for fire wood,   or I must go a round-about   to the nearest village." "It's minus nine." "It's an occasional trek through heather." "There must be some size on them to be useful for a fire." "Each time, use only the minimum to thaw 20 liters of water." "We just heard a wolf howl here." "Come on!" "Now we drive over White Lake." "We have a wolf in front of us." "Two wolves." "Good girl!" "We have gone for four hours, and the dogs are very exhausted." "In the middle of all this white appeared that big cluster of trees." "There, I saw him." "He's white." "It's so cool to live so close to wild animals." "I can't say it enough." "Insane cult, that is." "28th March came in the spring." "Easter conditions." "0 degrees Celsius and sunny." "Dogs are content left in the sun." "There is a small trick to packing the sleigh." "Here I have a solar panel for battery, camera and a knife." "Here go the skis on the side there." "I have kerosene here, not to spill the food." "The bottles I have to pack carefully." "They are soft and fine." "The feed's probably starting to soften already." "This means that it can be heavy and high-stepping today." "But we'll see now." "Today I'm happy with ..." "We must at least have 10 km." "If 15, it's good, and 20, quite excellent." "I doubt it, though." "Haw!" "[left] yes." "Must keep an eye on the ice." "It can be dangerous at points here." "Good girl." "Come on." "Here's surface water." "Then it becomes very important that the dog reacts." "If you go out into that mess there, it's just nonsense." "Come on!" "Gee!" "[right]" "There's open water, you know!" "Come on, Emfy!" "Not there!" "Come on." "There you go." "That looks deadly out there." "It helps to make sure." "Such things are dangerous." "Buzzed you into that sort of thing, then you don't stand and rejoice." "Then it happens." "It's so thick with wolves in this area, that it's completely wild." "No, you've never been a wolf." "This has been a bloody day." "It was just disgusting." "Now we trekked for four hours." "We moved 12-13 km." "We're in the middle of a cabbage field." "A harbor in the middle of the woods." "On the map, it's not showing any forest here, but that's how it goes." "I had hoped to continue in winter conditions, but the snow's too rotten." "Are you Arctic Southwest?" "I'd like an air taxi." "Can you bring us into the city, so that we can ..." "It costs 25000, yes ..." "Okay, so." "As long as we get us in the pub and restaurant, everything's in order." "Hey, is this the fellow?" "Hi!" "Nice to see you." "Fine trip?" "Hell." "Was it faster than you thought?" "Yes, I made good time." "It went quickly." "And what about you?" "Good." "I smell a little bad, but ..." "That's okay." "Waiting for a cold beer." "I have some in the plane." "It sounds good." "Brilliant." "Thank you." "He's here." "We have to load everything, so I think we're in the air in about an hour." "As soon as spring comes now, it was just in time that I was fetched out." "For each day that passes, the ice is more uncertain." "I'll be at the Great Slave Lake, while waiting for the tundra to dry up." "So I'll go back and proceed from the same point" "Eastward to Hudson Bay." "900 km to the next supply option." "Where I need go be before winter's upon us." "With summer gear the whole gang with iron   when the winter falls over us." "Then it's just me and the wilderness!" "600 km to the nearest civilization." "Then we will be 200 m away from the last camp we had this winter." "Before we were fetched from Enekatcha Lake." "Maybe we'll find firewood." "We really ran and lashed through here with the sleigh?" "No wonder it gave us the devil." "It can be difficult - to find tinder." "But no matter ..." "When we are at where the line stopped   for four months hence." "Come on!" "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight." "Come on, Jon!" "Then we are over." "Then we started." "This is the first day   by canoe, and the dogs are loose." "It's a jumble of islands   and lots of orienteering here on Kamilukuak River." "Dogs do well." "They cross when I want them to cross." "Yes!" "Come on!" "Here we need to cross!" "Come on!" "Do not stick out, folks!" "Just have to get the dinner now." "Fin fish." "It's so fin fish!" "God help me." "For a half-hour, there was brilliant sunshine and no wind." "Then came the wind and wetness." "It changes so fast. 15 km in airplane." "I need to have one." "That's the minimum." "For this far." "It can get very far." "The wind ..." "Right now, after a week now ..." "It wedges violently in the stomach." "Very uncertain whether we can get to the Hudson Bay." "Come on!" "You must cross here!" "Come on!" "Vierma, come on!" "There you go!" "Good girl!" "Hopeless stuff, then!" "Tallinn, come here!" "Give up!" "Come here!" "It's fucking far to the other side." "Come here." "Let them swim." "Talented dogs." "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight swim." "Talented dogs." "Just keep to the land." "Come on." "I have paddled for 3 hours." "We have covered 3 km as the crow flies." "Paddled 12 effectively." "Dogs have run about 15 km and swam 4 times." "Angikuni Lake." "Holy shit, that is!" "Now I have to paddle around all the crap here." "All of the island there." "And around the other side." "Guide dogs over to the island first." "And then paddle on the other side of the stone pile." "Lead the dogs back." "This isn't good for their paws." "For shit, man!" "I paddled, and then I heard something twittering." "Then I saw a bird which failed to take flight in time." "And it's here." "There was once a Canada Goose." "Wait, then." "Aunevik." "Wait, then." "Gang - look here, then." "You've got superior flesh for us today." "That's a huge amount!" "Brilliant!" "You are so good!" "You should get a beta also, Emfy." "I will keep this here." "Wait, then." "Sorry I had to cancel, but there are a bunch of wolves here." "When that happens, it's only to paddle forward and blowing the whistle." "I have lost Aunevik and Vierma." "They took off after Caribou." "That's nothing new, everyone does it, but they always come back." "As long as they have slots to smell after, shouldn't be a problem." "I'm holding position in the area for nearly two days." "Went hiking to put my footprints on the ground back to the camp." "Just a few miles from where they disappeared." "Usually it's no problem." "I think they have   gone swimming after a Caribou." "They escape by swimming." "They can easily swim two miles." "It's too long for a dog." "Especially when the water is so cold." "They will drown." "Or they may have been taken by wolves." "Morning." "Today's the 2 September." "It's always lovely to wake up to bright weather." "Not a cloud in the sky." "I hope there will be some days down of Kazan, where we'll gobble a few miles." "Still is Arviat, which I has decided that it is ..." "Arviat's located about 340 km away as the crow flies." "We have left behind 160." "Rapper'n!" "Shut up!" "End of the whistles!" "There are no Caribou on you." "We're carrying   beyond these waterfalls in the Kazan River." "Familiar style." "From last summer." "Now we arrive at Padley." "An old trading post from Hudson Bay Company." "Right in the thick of the finest wilderness." "It's located in an oasis   for this is the only place   where there are pine trees to talk about." "Here it's quite protected." "An oasis in the middle of the tundra." "Otherwise, on all sides is the only flat, bare, rocky and marshy." "Without trees." "No other company has led to such significant changes in Northern Canada." "From the 1700s they built trading stations far out in the wilderness." "The whites wanted to have furs and enticed the Indians   with goods they had never seen before:" "matches, cooking vessels and weapons." "With that cargo they delivered alcoholism and other diseases." "16." "September." "Turquetil Lake." "A damn difficult stage now." "And then there are strong winds." "There are gales brewing, but it's the right way across the sea." "Now I will take a real   well considered poker gamble." "I will load all the dogs up." "They have behaved calmly the times they have been in the canoe." "I bet that they'll do it now." "I'll paddle with the wind at my back." "Five dogs in front, one behind." "We'll see how the weight is." "I'll put Tallinn behind, he's the heaviest." "I'm betting that they sit quietly." "I don't know if I need to shoot here." "It goes so it thunders." "There's not much clearance behind it." "It shouldn't be so very much more waves than this ..." "We are on the way over." "There we see the long rod, which we shall take." "Should actually be on the left side, but can't be too demanding." "When we came over!" "It was hooked!" "I have had a case of seasickness." "I think it was Røa lying there, but Jon cleared up." "We took the water." "Holy shit, this was hooked!" "This was a little too much hooked." "But we are over!" "There is so much water in the system here." "Most have remained dry." "I have plenty of food again." "Chocolate, even." "Lots of granola." "With sugar in it." "Plain oatmeal." "That will be enough." "First I want me a pot of coffee." "Boiling coffee, even." "It's time to disassemble one item: the canoe." "It has since done its job." "It has taken us through the wilderness in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut." "It's leaking now, - but I'll be home to Norway and in northern forest." "Move up." "Now I have the Hudson Bay in the background here." "Move up." "Of all days." "This is a strange feeling." "Hudson Bay." "The name will be with me ..." "Surely seven or eight months." "All around us." "Today it's warm." "I shall learn to live with the Hudson Bay, not fight it." "I will make the Hudson Bay my friend." "Now it's just to get the last bit into the Arviat." "I see a cluster of houses." "Flashes from buildings over there." "It looks completely stone dead, but for safety's sake, I will ..." "Now the circus started, I think." "That isn't a joke in this country." "8." "October." "I'm at Fort Norway, which I've christened Wooden Hut" " where I have set up the tent." "Inside's where I live." "I've turned up the inner tent." "In November and December   it's only quiet and relaxing." "Only." "I'm like brown bears who go to hibernate." "I've started not moving much until January when the ice is safe." "Most polar bears are gone, although there always   will be one nearby wherever I am." "The ice extends further, further out from land for every passing week." "Arviat is inside polar bear country." "With only a tent I'm very vulnerable." "Inuits lent me a wooden hut, for better protection against polar bears." "In Arviat, Inuit have lived there 2000 years." "Hudson Bay Company built a trading post here in 1921." "Inuit traded leather for the white man's goods." "I am in the assembly hall in Arviat." "This is a great evening for the Inuit." "They will have the annual lottery   for who is allowed to to hunt polar bears." "For the Inuit, a card is like gold - only 20 are drawn." "The first 5 winners are allowed to to sell it to trophy hunters   for up to US$21,000." "The other 15 keep the cards themselves." "Nothing's greater for Inuit than polar bear hunting." "Just after the first polar bear's death." "This 17-year-old has passed the manhood test." "Are you the hunter?" "Nice to meet you." "I'm Lars." "Can I take a picture of you beside the bear?" "That's his first kill, so I'm going to mount it and put it on my wall." "Inside your house, eh?" "That's great." "I am very happy that he caught his first polar bear." "His mother arranges a party." "It's an honor to be invited, but the menu's a bit special." "Here you are." "Thank you very much." "This very special." "Powerful food, eh?" "." "Only the polar bear's cooked, the rest is raw." "Raw Caribou steak, raw Caribou bone-marrow, raw Caribou stomach." "Oh, yeah, raw brain and rotten walrus meat." "Is it strange I'm pouring sweat?" "Caribou stomach." "It's aged for it to taste better" "With the fat." "From the intestines." "I'll have to try that." "What do you have in your mouth?" "Caribou?" "It was good, given!" "(Singing)" "You go into a sleep mode when you're in civilization." "I lie quiet, at least." "It will be good to run out on the path again!" "Really delight!" "It's 15 November." "There are two new members of the expedition." "I have two dogs from Dave Olesen at Great Slave Lake." "They are Hodad and MacAvoy." "Turban and shit man." "You looks a little like Rapper'n, you." "Yes, you do so?" "Looks a little like Rapper'n?" "You are so cuddle boy, at least." "Yes, cuddle boy." "Yes, we should be good comrades." "Right?" "Yes." "What do you think of my new dogs?" "I think they're... good!" "Hard to tell though, just by looking." "When the weather is warm, maybe they're good, because they're skinny." "I mean the fur." "Oh, man, there's two ugly guys in my tent!" "This is Chris, and this is George." "So you just dropped by, Chris?" "Sure." "I just dropped by." "And why did you drop by?" "Alcohol, party!" " Smirnoff" "We party for two hours." "Party for Lars." "Party for Lars." "That's very nice of you." "I am leaving soon." "You're leaving, and we're drinking..." "I like drinking ." "My buddy George likes it too." "But that's not allowed, no?" "No." "It's a dry community." "Not allowed, but we sneak it in." "I get this by mail!" "I like to Caribou hunting." "I eat, and most of it goes to my dogs." "Leftovers goes to my dots." "The dogs get the innards." " How many caribou do you shoot in a year?" "Estimate, around... 17 pieces per month." "Something like that." "Is that what keeps your dogs and your family alive?" "Is that your most important food?" "Yes." "I'll put on more water." "Do you miss having a bar, club?" "Yes, I miss a bar and a liquor Store." "Had we had it here,   there would have been fewer suicides in Nunavut county." "We have the highest suicide rate in Canada." "There would be less suicides and less crime." "If there had been a bar here?" "Yes." "Then we'd have something to do." "Since there's nothing to do at night, lots of break ins and suicides in town." "Don't you think alcohol makes people lose control?" "" " And that it leads to trouble?" "Sure, but it would also save lots of young people." "Then they would drink instead of killing themselves." "If they had something to do." "There's nothing much to do in town." "I think it's a bad solution to ban alcohol." "The biggest challenge for native folk is to acquire education." "Things are getting better." "They have taken back their language." "I would lose a dog 6 January." "Hodad was in good shape." "The next day he lay dead." "This is one of the two new ones I just acquired." "So " "It's a mystery how he died." "It was only -10 that night, " " So he can't have frozen to death" "I'll show you what happened here." "Here's the entrance to the hut where I lie." "And tent." "The tent is set up inside the hut." "Inside, there I am at seven this morning." "When I hear a crunchy sound in the snow." "Outside the tent." "I hear the sound that's so heavy that it has to be a polar bear." "Here we can clearly see the claws." "One, two, three, four, five." "Here we see that he has removed snow." "when I saw it, I had no choice." "I wasn't going to be intimidated." "Then I had to shoot it." "I shot right through the door." "Where ever I go ..." "I will take the gun with me for safekeeping." "It has been there a couple hours." "You never know if there are others near." "It's pretty huge." "It looks completely stone dead, but for safety's sake " "I'll touch it." "He's fairly certainly dead." "It's huge." "Now the circus started, I think." "Hi." "Hi." "He who shot the polar bear." "Great." "I had to shoot it." "He had to shoot it, for it was on offense." "It was jaggu huge, the polar bear." "He's a big, big Polar Bear." " Was it threatening you?" "Yes, it was on its way into the cabin." "Trying to break in." "Ah." "Big one." "Yes, this is a big one, huh?" "Does it look skinny, or is it healthy?" "It's healthy." "Perfect for dog meat." "Now, it's my dogs' food if no one claims the meat!" "I have to go and talk to Joe." "Now, it's my dogs food." "What would you have done, if a a polar bear comes 1.5 meter away?" "He would have done the same thing." "That's good to hear." "I would also have shot it." "I'm on my way to Joe." "He's a wildlife officer here." "I must report what has happened." "So there will be interviews, and we have to drive over there." "We'll see." "Sometimes the people are prosecuted for such things, but we'll now see." "I'm investigating the killing of a polar bear." "I must read your rights and caution." "You can be charged for illegal killing of wildlife - a polar bear." "You have a right to a lawyer." "No, I don't need a lawyer." "Please tell me in your own words what led to the shooting of the polar bear?" "I would like to point out   that I have encountered a lot of bears before." "182 bears." "Grizzly Bears almost this size have charged me." "I've always managed to scare them off   by making noise and standing my ground." "So I've never had to shoot a bear before." "I must always be prepared to defend myself." "One stroke with his paw would have killed me." "Going to save that penis bone?" "It's proof it's a male for the quota." "The investigating board are not pressing charges against me." "They understand that I killed the polar bear in self-defense." "Yes, come on!" "Come on!" "Yes!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "It's day three." "I have my reservations on the rest day is today." "The first eight days go slowly." "We are only 40km on." "There's almost nothing." "80 effective degrees below zero." "This wind forces me to lie still." "It's only now in the last hour that it has begun to clear up a little." "There's still a -35-40 effective wind chill." "About. -22-23 on the thermometer, but this wind is killing." "That's the direction I'll go tomorrow." "The visibility is about 1.5 km" "Now at 12 there's no question of moving when it's so cold." "With the wind it's -50 effective." "It's like asking to freeze the dicks off the male dogs." "I won't." "If we are in a cold period now, " " I must begin to save on paraffin." "Then I'll just lie and cope in the bag during the day." "A litre burns for four hours." "I have a 17-18 litres left." "I need 1 liter/day for boiling water for us all." "About 20 I." "If this lasts, " " I must begin to take it easier with the Primus." "Holy shit!" "Life's not easy at this time." "Light's broken too." "It's not often I get to talk to the camera this way." "The last ten days have been completely hopeless." "Impossible." "There are still 180 km again to Churchill, so far." "I'd like a can of ..." "Four liters of it have gone." "I have to get kerosene." "Without enough fluids, we are done." "It's that simple." "It's no joke this country here, at all." "I sleep for five to six hours a day." "Otherwise, I shiver in the bag because it's so humid." "In the night I woke up at 1:30 and couldn't fall asleep again   before I started the primus at eight in the morning." "Now, now I have to cut into the liner of this parka." "It has settled a thick layer of ice between the liner and outer jacket." "Outer lining is windproof." "It's absolutely crucial." "I can get started with it." "Where there's thick ice." "Then it will be stiff like asphalt around your body." "It's not fucking good." "I'll turn it off now and say thanks for tonight." "I don't know when the hell the next time will be." "Day 21 Three weeks after we started out from Arviat." "This is the first time I have found   a cabin that I can use." "Now it's -ten degrees in here   and -32-33 outside." "There have been 21 consecutive days   with between 40 and 70 effective degrees below zero." "It has been awfully cold." "There has been heavy snow." "I'm running out of kerosene." "For the first time, I think I have problems with my left little toe." "It started with a few blisters, and then it was freezing, freezing, freezing." "The devil, that doesn't look good." "It smells awfully bad, too." "It's Jon and Røa" "I had to take Jon inside." "He has become much weaker." "I'm worried whether he will survive." "He has frostbite on his dick something awful." "And other places too." "On the inside of the legs." "Now I have put him on penicillin." "Oxytetral." "I have given him four 50 mg Largactil,   that he can relax inside the hut at night." "He will be calm and do nothing." "I only hope that he comes out of it." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Keep track!" "Come on!" "Follow it!" "Stop!" "Eat a little." "I am very worried for Jon." "I have almost lost faith." "I realized that now it is all over for Jon." "Gangrene has spread into his body." "He died on the sled one hour from Churchill." "Come on, Emfy!" "Come, then!" "You will get candy!" "Yes, come on!" "Yes!" "Such days are good to have!" "I must remember this." "Come on!" "That was one stream." "Only 38 left!" "It looks a scary small pup, that is." "Not certain he will survive." "I have cold fingers?" "Oh, I swear!" "You must let me help you." "Last chance I have for a tall one   or a cold one, for months." "Today is Saturday ... 23rd February." "I make a toast, for now, only a few days until I set off again." "I must get out of this fucking motel room here." "I have to gamble that no trains come." "Good girl, Emfy." "Just keep on." "Now awaits the about 750 effective kilometers." "About 620 km as the crow flies from camp to camp." "I have everything I need for a month." "Most of the food." "Hopefully the worst cold has surrendered." "I'm excited now!" "It's a delight." "Now it's spring in the air!" "It appears that the sea ice extends 20 - 30 km beyond." "To judge by the dark cloud which always lies over open water." "I stand here with only fingers and enjoying myself in minus 15." "Oh, I swear!" "Good girl!" "Come on." "Now I have to get in the bag." "It was a pretty long day." "We drove five and a half hours." "I think we did 40 km as the crow flies." "Pretty good." "But I let them run too long without socks, so Røa has a cut in a paw." "It punishes him immediately." "To fly with the dogs through something which is completely in your face." "Look at the mess there." "May get us through into the country." "Rapper'n has a bad leg" "I hope he hasn't broken anything, but he treads on it very strangely." "It is possible that he'll be in the sleigh in the morning." "Perhaps several days also." "I hope he isn't seriously hurt." "Are you seriously hurt, boy?" "Just hope he recovers." "Otherwise, it's good we reduced weight on the sled so much." "It will be good progress even if I lose power on a dog   and put it in the sled instead." "It's the difference between six and eight dogs." "You are much more vulnerable when you only have six." "Come on!" "Right on!" "There you go!" "Good girl!" "13.10." "We have run for three hours." "I'll take lunch." "Dogs are tired." "This is a moderate pace." "Only until the struggles come." "It'll be the rest day tomorrow." "After they have worked four days." "Four hard days." "It's urgent to have him where ... he will have breathing, but I then must have earplugs." "Rapper'n ..." "The hill won't be the same without you, then?" "He doesn't have pain." "It doesn't feel like the Achilles' heel or the ligament." "I don't know what the hell it can be." "I can only see the way some days." "Now, after three days." "There was lots of pack ice and crap before." "Come on." "We drive on the right." "Ok, we drive on the left." "Come on!" "Right on!" "Come on!" "A sad day." "18." "March 2002." "Today I had ..." "To put down Rapper'n" "It's one of the most difficult decisions I have made on the expedition." "Rapper'n was my favorite dog." "But he had no future." "He injured his leg so badly in the pack ice   that he would never have lived a good life again." "Stop ..." "Look at how it appears here." "Fuck the fucking pig." "Hey, hey!" "No fighting now!" "Hey, you two!" "Churchill - guys!" "No fighting!" "Come, then!" "He says he's weaker than you." "Come here, now." "Come here." "No bullshit!" "Come on!" "Yes!" "It's certain that road." "Emfy!" "How hot is it?" "Holy shit, it's summer temperature." "It's not possible." "Either we go all the way, or so we turn around and go back." "I just have to see what the weather has to say here." "Wow, it was wet, that's a given!" "Are you the captain?" "I am your manager and wonder if we should do something." "What do you mean?" "Back to Albany and fly to Moosonee?" "No, what do you not?" "Do we wait until tomorrow morning, so it becomes a little colder." "Right on!" "8." "April." "It's mildly dangerous." "At 0 degrees Celsius." "Just to stand on." "At best there are three good days to Moosonee." "With a u-turn, there in a week." "Røa, come on." "Getting here." "Come on, Røa." "Come on." "Come on." "To see such a scary small pup, that is." "Not sure it survives." "But that one has life in it." "That bark's some crap." "I have cold fingers?" "Patch." "We'll put you in the sleeping bag." "So the mother can be out and run." "This is much hotter." "Hello, Røa." "Hello." "Yes, it's fine." "We put him in his sleeping bag." "No, no." "You can't be in there, you know." "Was that a bark?" "MacAvoy!" "No, it's the wrong way!" "This cuts like glass against their feet." "Especially against the legs." "But we have no choice, we must continue." "Come, then!" "Come here, then!" "Come, then." "And you get a treat." "Good boy!" "There you go!" "Come on!" "Such days are good to have." "So we remember this." "Good dog!" "There was one brook, only 38 left." "It's not huge." "Just lie down." "Now, don't step on it." "Finally we've come up to Moosonee." "As usual, I turn to camp a piece off from the village." "21." "April 2002." "Day 750 on the expedition." "My birthday No. 39" "We have arrived in Moosonee." "The third and last winter's over." "I need a little thin one." "This, I waited for properly." "It's a time side now, since Churchill." "Oi-oi-oi." "It's usual strength." "Then we'll have a decent Northlander one." "Where we are, thereabouts." "Patch has been so great that I let him wander among the other dogs." "Unfortunately, one of the females took and killed him." "Moosonee, 3 June." "I must examine the tent." "It's brand new." "It's not smart to go out in the wilderness with a new tent - without checking it." "The third summer." "I shall try to round James Bay by canoe." "The wind can sweep me out to sea in no time." "I may be staying out there long - several kilometers from shore." "Before us lies the now between 20 and 22 miles,   hopefully with paddling in the sea." "I must have luck with wind, waves and tides." "I have to look at the tide all the time." "The point is to move   while the tide is moving in." "Certainly with the wind at my back." "It's tremendously good to be started again with a summer move." "Jaggu it's a snap we aren't through." "It's an opening." "Come on, Emfy!" "Well there are waves." "It's thick with white whales around me." "What's this for a whale, then?" "Swimming with whales." "Now the whole gang." "Hell!" "I had only get me safely in myself!" "I hope no one drowned!" "It's hell, though!" "It's possible." "Here we have Rago!" "He's the best swimmer." "Such a good boy!" "I have seen three so far." "It's Røa ..." "Tallinn ..." "It's probably ..." "MacAvoy." "The question is Emfy." "She's the worst swimmer." "Wonderful." "I let go of fear." "That place was scary." "It happened so fast." "So clever you are!" "Then so good!" "Here, it's so shallow that it's better to wade, actually." "As long as we are moving, it's in order." "It's forward motion." "Dogs barking in the country." "I hope there's no hedgehogs." "Are there any spikes in your mouth?" "You shaking your head, Rago." "Røa, you must stay away." "Røa!" "What's that for some, then?" "Thank the Lord, there were no hedgehogs." "Holy shit, the smell of shit of!" "That is the first skunk I have ever seen!" "Should just remain far away, in other words." "It tastes no good, I think." "Damn puddinghead!" "You deserved that!" "Assen, what's under here?" "Damn blisters." "Pudding head!" "Forever on the pad." "You'd think I wasn't used to this." "There's too much water." "I tread water the whole time." "Now it's noon and again here." "It goes in like that for me now." "Good dog!" "Is there an entrance here, then?" "There we found it." "This channel becomes narrower and narrower." "What's all this for nothing, then?" "Holy shit!" "Mr. Beaver makes trouble!" "What should I do with this, then?" "Four of them lay balled up, deaf ears, but only three got away." "Tallinn tussled with the fourth in mouth and handed it to his master." "Such a good boy you were!" "Then we are on the way up river." "Now in one of the quieter parties." "We had a string to begin with." "That's enough of them." "It's nice to not have head into full tide." "It is great to escape the sea." "A completely different world." "Quiet." "The only thing I need to worry me, is a little power against." "It's a little wearing off, but this is just cuddling." "Be careful with this." "I need a couple of days,   we feed the dogs." "Oh, I swear!" "It's only to camp." "I must pull out the Leatherman tool and pick them out." "I hope I can." "Tallinn, be nice." "You must let me help you, you know." "Located nicely." "Located nicely." "There is still a ton more, Tallinn." "Should I try a little from you, you who are quiet?" "Rago, come here, then." "I mean I saw his buddies over there." "It was fairly thin the fur, you." "I know how it'll end up going." "Do you have any appetite now, boy?" "You have the appetite." "You make much noise, you." "Holy shit!" "Suddenly it's only 60 meters away!" "No, no!" "That's not good!" "Somewhat worn out." "Lucky." "The moose could just as easily kill them." "You do not take off." "So clever you are." "Good boy, MacAvoy." "Yes, you are a good boy." "Oh, so clever." "Look at that bastard here!" "I hope he's good!" "Holy shit, it's solid!" "I should not try to land in the boat." "This's the biggest so far." "It's fucking good." "Holy shit!" "It has such sharp teeth too!" "I do not think I'm too lazy to fish more today." "A lot of food." "How much weight this here?" "Nearly 10 kg." "10 kg, I think." "Now I have packed out of the tent." "Usually there will be some tumult." "When the sounds are familiar to the dogs, they tend to sit up." "Some will bark a little looking forward to today's travel." "But today the silence is immense." "In this picture there's five dogs." "Are there any dogs here?" "Does anyone want to get out and walk?" "Emfy, then?" "Emfyberta." "Is most important to to lie there all day, you." "Now it's just the moves." "I have paddled in 5 1/2 hours." "We have gone nine km as the crow flies." "The toilet's done." "Come on!" "There's nothing to stand and watch!" "Now it's come that they only stop and stare at me." "They are very driven, ie." "This bright terrain is hard for them." "This is the fourth day since the last rest day." "There are a few of those folks, then!" "Begins to tire them." "There have been some dozens of them." "I have to heave out of the canoe, bind it firmly and drag it over rocks." "Make sure nothing falls in the river." "Just let the dogs take care of themselves." "You know we are here, folks?" "Come on, Emfy!" "Rago!" "That's very strange." "Stay there, Emfy." "That's good the others remain at the other side." "I'll see if I can find him." "It's unlike Rago, I mean." "He's usually by far the fastest." "Rago!" "When was it I saw him last, then?" "Come, then!" "There you are!" "There you are!" "What's it that happened to you, then?" "What has happened to you?" "You?" "Why will not you swim?" "Is everything okay with you?" "Is everything okay with you?" "Come, then!" "I'll put you in the canoe." "Come, then." "He's not quick." "What has happened with you, Rago?" "You tremble, yes." "They are so driven mentally due to this terrain." "Dung terrain." "This goes amazingly slowly." "Working all day and is likely to   to move us one km as the crow flies per hour." "Come on!" "There's nothing to wait for!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "I'll consider finding a kennel for any of them." "May continue with two from Mistissini." "They swim over when they can just run right around there ..." "There's also a sign of that they are just hating these shores." "Tallinn leading the way, and they come the second after." "The dogs are completely exhausted." "Next stage can be 1000 km long." "I can't take a chance that they aren't able to go right on." "The solution is to find the nearest dog hotel." "I'll get them when the trip is over." "Can you take care of my dogs for two and a half months?" "Now you get to rest now, heh?" "No more hard work." "Don't be worn out any more." "Ren got a hedgehog spike." "Hedgehog Pig?" "Yes, porcupine." "Fortunately, there has not been any inflammation in wounds." "It's Mistissini Lake." "Then we are over on the west side." "This is day two of Mistissini." "Now it's just me and this buddy there, MacAvoy." "There are many berries." "It's often upstream up rivers." "A little big and wild rivers." "This is a bit of an ordeal." "You make too much noise, you!" "Wonderful to be here!" "It's 220 km to the nearest civilization." "Just wilderness." "What should I do with that shit here, then?" "This is bear terrain." "We make a little noise." "Yes!" "Come on, canoe!" "Come on!" "I just found a place to camp." "It looks like it's ..." "I hope it shows up again." "It looked like it was a black bear - mother, a she-bear with a baby." "They were on their way down river" "We'll see." "It seems that they try to cross the river here." "That's not harmless, ie." "Please come with youth." "I'll get him back in ribbons." "MacAvoy!" "Come here!" "There's trouble for you." "Come here." "I sit in the band immediately." "Bugger off!" "Take care!" "Dangerous here!" "Shit." "Shit!" "Must run away!" "Must run away!" "This's dangerous!" "Three kids she has." "The two are from this year." "That's why she's not afraid." "This is dangerous." "Wonderful, where they cross." "Wow!" "Fantastic experiences, that is!" "How many people the animals have seen, is hard to say." "That it becomes more and more bears now, is not unlikely." "We are moving higher and higher up." "It's berries terrain" "That's what they want." "It's time to sleep." "There's a new day tomorrow." "Ok, bear." "There are people here." "Now you can escape." "Bugger off." "It's not trying to escape." "I will not get much closer to land here." "What's scary now, is that he will not be intimidated   and start to follow us." "It's rare that it happens." "It can happen with this here." "Black bear fur!" "What happened to him?" "Hey, you!" "Look at the water here!" "There's a canoe!" "Hey, you!" "There, yes!" "Can't you take the road south, then?" "So we take the north!" "I see that you can't smell us." "Sorry it." "I haven't showered in five weeks, but ..." "No, no!" "That's not good, you know!" "I'm sorry, MacAvoy." "Now it becomes a little trouble here." "I don't like when things like that occur late in the day." "It's only a half-hour until I really should set up camp." "And so we must go up this fucking shit creek." "Here's the only to be extremely wary." "Holy shit!" "Suddenly it's only 60 meters away." "No, it's 50 meters." "Hi!" "You must run away!" "You must run away!" "Here's the man!" "Bugger off!" "Yes." "There you go!" "That should be!" "Good bear!" "I will be surprised if it shows up again." "Now I'll eat." "I will eat pike." "I am not more nervous than that I eat the pike." "Must have fish ..." "Holy shit!" "Back to land just in time!" "Johnny Fat Pig storm!" "Holy shit, that is!" "Look at the mess there, then!" "It's cold now." "I'm freezing in the canoe during the day." "I sit and nurse cold feet." "It's quite clear." "I have to run the land a while to get warmed up." "The food stores are emptying." "Now there's a soup bag   and about eight oatmeal bags left." "That's it." "I've enough coffee for two days." "Now the snow's here, of course." "What a pig." "Can get a cup of coffee here." "Now I have to say that now ..." "My head ..." "I think that it's over." "It's almost over." "It's incredibly difficult to comprehend." "I wonder what to do for some   to find a good replacement." "Just keep going with other projects, I think." "There's no doubt that it will be sad to end this." "This has been absolutely fantastic." "Equal to any wilderness experience." "I'm glad I will not freeze in winter." "I shall be under the rug   with cocoa and a remote control." "Now winter has come to northern Sweden." "It's time we go downstream here!" "As late as this, MacAvoy?" "Coming here without going in the canoe?" "May need to push this a couple of times." "Where we came from." "It was as I feared." "Little water." "And some of the widest river, right here." "I am unlucky, it costs me half a day, maybe a whole one." "Listening?" "Want to talk?" "The wolf?" "It hasn't seen enough people before." "We are properly in wilderness." "It's certainly not alone." "No ..." "It looks good, MacAvoy." "What?" "Here begins the forest road." "Then hopefully no snowfall." "It's similar to stepping a North Marks trip to Churchill Falls." "It's fine now." "Now we drive safe." "30." "October." "We have trampled for seven long hours." "Made from 35 km." "10 km down the road, a car with two Forest Service men stopped." "They said there's a red hut that can be used by anyone who wants to." "And here we are." "They don't skimp where they have fired up the oven." "When I got in and shut it up, it was nice and warm inside." "The guys have set a bit of everything on the table." "Pepsi, Heineken, bread, cake ..." "Asparagus, more bread, butter, jam ..." "Potatoes, eggs, apples ..." "It's okay to relax a bit in the hut." "While civilization approaches ..." "The five or six days left." "Then the moment arrived." "This I have struggled toward for two years and seven months." "I've done it!" "I've done it!"