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Title: NGC Riding a bicycle across Canadian Arctic in winter
Post by: steven c on March 13, 2018, 09:52:56 AM

 Bicycling around the world solo. A really well made film.
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Title: Re: NGC Riding a bicycle across Canadian Arctic in winter
Post by: John Ulrich on March 13, 2018, 10:10:10 AM

Hard to comprehend the need to do that!     :undecided:

Title: Re: NGC Riding a bicycle across Canadian Arctic in winter
Post by: Don G on March 13, 2018, 10:20:20 AM

Some people climb mountains etc. I don't understand it either, but if you like a challenge, that would be one.  DonG

Title: Re: NGC Riding a bicycle across Canadian Arctic in winter
Post by: Sheepdog on March 13, 2018, 10:54:56 AM

Traffic and crime is probably nil...

Title: Re: NGC Riding a bicycle across Canadian Arctic in winter
Post by: yogidozer on March 13, 2018, 10:59:33 AM

I think it's pretty cool  :rolleyes:

Title: Re: NGC Riding a bicycle across Canadian Arctic in winter
Post by: PJPR01 on March 13, 2018, 05:29:40 PM

A modern day Solitary Shackleton!  Good for him! 

Title: Re: NGC Riding a bicycle across Canadian Arctic in winter
Post by: oldbike54 on March 13, 2018, 07:10:10 PM

 Takes some grit and determination  :bow:

 Dusty

Title: Re: NGC Riding a bicycle across Canadian Arctic in winter
Post by: Lannis on March 13, 2018, 07:44:21 PM

And he'd been all the way from the tip of South America to get here; that's some bull-goose traveling there, on a bicycle.    Man must be a physical animal.

I liked the Jack London quotes he had written down in his notes.   Jack London wrote a lot of good stories, many of them involving a guy on some enormous frozen odyssey up the Yukon, or to Coronation Bay ... and he's out of grub, crawling along making a mile or so a day through the snow with a hundred hard miles to go.   Sometimes it ends well, more often it doesn't.

But I don't remember any of those treks ending with two guys on Polaris snowmobiles with satellite phones showing up out of the distance, loading the half-dead traveler onto their sleds, and carrying him to town!   Times sure have changed in the White Silence!

He might have made it to the village pushing that bike through the snow, but maybe not.   Glad he lived to tell the tale!   Can't imagine that kind of physical effort ....

Lannis

Title: Re: NGC Riding a bicycle across Canadian Arctic in winter
Post by: Sheepdog on March 14, 2018, 03:59:41 PM

I came across a Colombian fellow riding his bicycle through the Mogollon Mountains in New Mexico back in the nineties. He was out of food and water and was about 45 miles from finding any. Now this is the same region that hid Geronimo from the cavalry all those years...really rough. I helped him into the back of the truck (my dad and son were in the cab) and we took him up the road to a small grocery. I often wonder what would have happened to that guy if we hadn’t stopped. He looked pretty gaunt...