Alone in the Wilderness DVD – NTSC, January 1, 2003

If you have ever dreamed of getting away from everything and living a wonderfullife alone in absolutely the most beautiful place in the world, this dvd will putyou there. I have the book, which has been my winter read now for several years.Between reading this book several times and having friends living in Alaska, I decided I had to purchase the dvd to actually see through this man's eyes, exactlyeverything in detail, that he seen and accomplished. It is absolutely amazing. I have had the video for three days and have watched it each day....it takes you through building his cabin, which had logs in place up to roof edge in 10 days, with nothing but hand tools. Very few men couldeven begin to accomplish this today, especially alone and with no modern tools.He canoe's through miles of beautiful lake front which also has great fishing.When he slips the canoe into the water, you will see some of the mostbeautiful, serene background that will just about take your breath away. It is hard to actually describe everything in this dvd, creating his own furniture from scratch, down to making a spoon for his sourdough pancakes to creating bowls. It shows picking mountain blueberries and one scene shows taking wild cranberries and making his own syrup. He makes friends with birds and some animals by providing meat scraps during the long months of snow and ice. If you are a hunter or animal lover, you willdefinitely appreciate the many scenes that are often so close you can count thehair above their eye's. There are both caribou and moose with racks that are huge. One caribou has a rack that looks the same height as its own body. Even makes you wonder how in the world he could carry such a rack. There are bear with cubs, mountain sheep with full curl horns, wolves, beaver and even onehuge wolverine playing in the snow and rolling down a long slope. He picked beautiful flat stones up and down his many lake trips and created afantastic stone fireplace. One scene in the film does show him sitting beside it with a fire going. It looks so warm, when you consider, that just outside, thesnow is almost to the edge of the roof. He creates a huge wooden sled for hauling over the snow and ice, just out ofspruce boughs. This man did more physical work in one 10 day period while constructing hiscabin, than most men would do in a one year period. He spent 35 years in the wilderness, absolutely alone, except for the occasional visit by plane, of a friend that would re-supply some of his basic food needs, such as flour, sugar, etc., In 1998 at the age of 82 years, he could no longer stand the 50 degree below temperature and turned his wonderful creation over to the Lake Clark National Park. As said, I have make his book a yearly winter read and now with the dvd, I canrelive his time spent there. What a fantastic creation this man made forother people to enjoy.

Great quality video- total classic!!

I appreciate the speed and honesty of this seller! This video, which is 3 hours, does so much to help me calm and recenter myself. If you haven't checked out Dick Proenneke's videos, you owe it to yourself to do so. He has the same effect as Bob Ross does on me. Check him out!!!

Excellent video! Bought this to complimate the book...what a life this guy had and what he accomplished! Amazing!

If you are an outdoors type of person you owe to yourself to meet this man. This film will make you want for a simpler more rewarding life.

Everything about this video is amazing. To live alone that long is amazing right off the bat but when you watch this video you will be amazed what this man accomplished WITHOUT power tools, electricity, running water, etc.

What can I say but watching this is best done when you get peace form the wife/kids/dog etc.First lets get the technical bit out of the way, the DVD is sold in NTSC (yankee) format and we use PAL in good ole blighty. But when I stuck this in my DVD player it works fine! It also plays fine on the PC, so you won't have any issue watching it and you won't need any fancy multi standard players/TV's.Ok, now the subject matter, it's about this guy Richard Proenneke who goes off to live in the wilds of Alaska Now as you might imagine, Bovis/Wimpy/Laings etc haven't got there yet so he has to build his own house to start with.This turns out to be a log cabin watch as he chops out the logs and builds this from the ground to the roof, all the time watching out for bears, fishing for his dinner and doing a bit of the amateur naturalist.There is a commentary by one of his friends Bob Swerer, which really goes well with the film. So whether you are into woodwork on a large scale, watching nature or survivalism then there is something here for you. I would rcommend you buy the book and read it, most of the commentary comes directly from it and you get a fuller picture of his life there and some excellent glossy photos too. Worth the 20 quid or so for the book and similar for the DVD.

Alone in the Wilderness is amazing in that it actually shows Dick Proenneke building his own small cabin with hand tools. It is unique in the narration by Robert Swerer that brings the original 8 mm film footage to life holding the viewer's attention to the details of Dick's building and tasks to ensure survival in the Alaskan wilderness. It is wonderful video. Our first copy was a gift from a dear friend. This copy was purchased as a present for our daughter.

expensive, but worth it.

Great book. Love the detail and the pictures showing progress on the build. Well worth a read and also looking at the dvd or the YouTube clips. 👍

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