New Article: Living and Dying in the Siberian Taiga

[Patrick Carlson]

Today I look at two examples of Siberian survival--a documentary detailing life along Russia's Yenisei river, and the story of a family that lived alone on a mountaintop for 40 years.

They are two very different interpretations of life in one of the world's most remote forests. Can you imagine surviving in similar situations?

[danicusrex]

The Werner Herzog documentary "Happy People"? I watched that again yesterday! Gives me ideas for this game, for sure!

[Patrick Carlson]

The homemade mosquito repellent cooked out of tree bark seemed especially clever. The film really highlights how resourceful and adaptive human beings can become when the environment demands it of them.

[IcyWolf]

Aha, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga! I just watched this documentary like 2 weeks ago on Netflix, and funny that the reason I chose to watch it because it reminds me a lot of TLD

[danicusrex]

It would be kinda awesome to be able to construct some variation of the koolyomka (the sable trap) in TLD.

His homemade skis are another thing that seem really useful.

[Patrick Carlson]

How deft he is with his hatchet is almost magical. He uses a chain saw to fell the tree but then makes the skis pretty much by hand (and fire).

[doggonemess]

* Cough cough * Sounds familiar.

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[Patrick Carlson]

And that's a really nice piece, doggonemess!

[nicko]

pretty interesting doco, 4 parts.

Seems you can now watch them all on youTube.

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[Patrick Carlson]

That looks like a version of the original documentary by Dmitry Vasyukov. I'd never seen that before. Thanks for sharing this!

[danicusrex]

Yeah, there's two versions. I prefer the Herzog narrated one, but that's at least partially because I love his voice.