If you're following this blog with some regularity, you know that I dream of walking the Nordkalottleden, from Kautokeino in Norway till Kvikkjokk in Sweden, and climb Halti in Finland on the way. I read the only book on the complete trail from cover to cover, I have the maps here at home, and am just wondering when I will have the time window of four to five weeks to walk it. Imagine thus my excitement as I happened to stumble upon an Norwegian TV show called "Nordkalotten 365". The story is quite easy: Lars Monsen, an Norwegian adventurer, spends 365 days alone in Northern Scandinavia, filming himself during his adventures. The result his spectacular, beautiful landscapes which make you want to leave asap. Here is the first part of Episode 1:
But now the highlight: Norwegian Broadcasting has made the show available as a high quality BitTorrent download, completely legal! You can even get English subtitles for the show! I wish more broadcasting agencies would take this approach, and make their shows available as a BitTorrent download.
So while Monsen isn't UL on the trail, quite the contrary actually, I am already really in love with the show, because of his unique humor and the interesting people he meets, not to mention the spectacular landscapes. If you're looking for a documentary which showcases the beauty of Northern Scandinavia, look no further and download Nordkalotten 365!
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I was loving this video until he tore out one of his toenails. Oh. my. That hurt me.
ReplyDeleteStill, thanks for linking episode 1! Please keep reminding when there are new episodes!
Thanks!
Really Cool! Thanks for the link Hendrik!
ReplyDeleteAwesome. I've a 12 hour flight back to the UK tomorrow, and these will be perfect. Thanks for the links!
ReplyDeleteJay, yeah that nail was tough, but I guess that happens if you walk in old fashioned boots! But check out the links and download all episodes + subs, or just click through Youtube to see them all - they're all available already!
ReplyDeleteCarsten, its a awesome programme and sure "weckt Fernweh"!
Chris, have a save flight! I was able to download all 8 episodes in less than 90 minutes, and am currently seeding. For the English subs you need to change the ending from ".srt.txt" to only ".srt" to make it work. Enjoy!
I liked the Monsens show really much. But I'm allways a bit jealous for Monsen because he is living his dream and I'm quite not... =P Well, I got time and hopefully the courage to do that in the future.
ReplyDeleteThere is also a book about Nordkalotten 365. Lars Monsen has also traveled across Canadian arctic (it took well over two years if I remember it right) and has done a TV series of that too... And a lot more. There are also couple of books about his way of, mmm, living in the wilderness. I wouldn't call his style hiking in the way most of the light/UL people think about it.
Hendrik:
I've been also thinking about hiking the Kalottireitti! It started from planning to ski it and now I'm thinking about doing both. =) I think 4 weeks is a tough call, but possible by all means. The route is about 800km and there is a good amount of ascent. I was thinking about 5-6 weeks, with a bit fewer resupplys and a bit heavier pack.
That looks good hendrik, just started to download episode 1 via bitTorrent. Great that a broadcaster is using this as a way of sharing content.
ReplyDeleteI watched Episode 1 whilst the others are downloading. Incredible, thanks for bringing this to my/our attention.
ReplyDeleteTell me he's got a packraft since this was made - that's some weight he's hauling.
Great and I will go watch more.
ReplyDeleteWow thanks to whomever put all these on youtube and subtitled them.
ReplyDeleteI am REALLY enjoying them. I downloaded all the torrents, and the videos are still highly watchable even though I don't understand any of the words.
But on youtube, it's great.
Thanks!!!
Thanks Hendrik, I now have my christmas viewing lined up.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff!
ReplyDeleteAs soon as i read about it i downloaded all episodes, that gave me 4 hours nonstop wilderness.
Thanks
Quite impressive wildness. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHowever, he's beaten the poor fish. Does the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals care?
Thanks for posting this Hendrik. I can't wait to get up there next year!
ReplyDelete@Jay Dub -
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to download the English subtitles from http://subs.hopto.org into the same directory as the video file.
To play, I prefer http://videolan.org VLC Player (Win, Mac, GNU/Linux).
I liked the Monsens show really much. But I'm allways a bit jealous for Monsen because he is living his dream and I'm quite not... =P Well, I got time and hopefully the courage to do that in the future.
ReplyDeleteThere is also a book about Nordkalotten 365. Lars Monsen has also traveled across Canadian arctic (it took well over two years if I remember it right) and has done a TV series of that too... And a lot more. There are also couple of books about his way of, mmm, living in the wilderness. I wouldn't call his style hiking in the way most of the light/UL people think about it.
Hendrik:
I've been also thinking about hiking the Kalottireitti! It started from planning to ski it and now I'm thinking about doing both. =) I think 4 weeks is a tough call, but possible by all means. The route is about 800km and there is a good amount of ascent. I was thinking about 5-6 weeks, with a bit fewer resupplys and a bit heavier pack.