@diabolical Well, what I meant was that some knucklehead back-to-nature types go into the remote areas of Alaska with the idea that Mother Nature is going to provide for all their needs, and end up learning how little she really cares for puny mortals. There are two high-profile cases: in one, the guy ended up starving to death because he didn't actually know how to hunt and gather; and the other ended up getting eaten by a vicious grizzly bear after having spent months among the better-tempered brown bears, because he didn't quite understand the difference. The latter was made into a movie by Werner Herzog:
Alaska's really a beautiful place, and puts a great premium on independence and self-reliance. I know people who grew up there and keep saying I should move there, not bloody likely, though! So long as one stays near civilization and pays attention to the advice of the locals (which those two people I mentioned did not do), one should be fine living there. We in "the lower 48" do think of Alaskans as being a bit, well, eccentric (cough cough Sarah Palin cough), but they're probably no more so than anyone else.
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@diabolical Well, what I meant was that some knucklehead back-to-nature types go into the remote areas of Alaska with the idea that Mother Nature is going to provide for all their needs, and end up learning how little she really cares for puny mortals. There are two high-profile cases: in one, the guy ended up starving to death because he didn't actually know how to hunt and gather; and the other ended up getting eaten by a vicious grizzly bear after having spent months among the better-tempered brown bears, because he didn't quite understand the difference. The latter was made into a movie by Werner Herzog:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Man
And here's an article about the other one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless
Alaska's really a beautiful place, and puts a great premium on independence and self-reliance. I know people who grew up there and keep saying I should move there, not bloody likely, though!