Dick Proenneke in Alone in the Wilderness

I’m feeling the urge to run away so bad right now. Work sucks, politics sucks, the economy sucks and it seems like everyone around me has cancer or heart disease. I just want to run away and live Dicks life off grid. I just can’t figure out how I can get internet access for free off grid?😂

I watched this on TBS when I was 15 years old almost 30 years ago. One day I’m going to do it

A water sorce fish in that and nothing can stop you

What about the clothing

All I’ve ever wanted as an American

Watched this as a kid one night like late night on PBS. It was so peacefulI it felt like a dream and stuck with me since.

Never even seen him wear gloves.unreal tough

He left out all the parts he had a chainsaw

Don’t judge a man by his name.

Real life Minecraft

Your Legacy lives on Dick , You ol Sourdough.

amazing

Why he walk so bowlegged

How did film this ? It's with a film camera right ? How did he manage to buy the film in isolation?

Living the dream

More than a person of this generation could do in a lifetime! Too lazy

Thanks❤

we all have a desire to live like this, yet we don’t have the balls to

One in 100,000 could thrive away from the rat race. I could.

Strong man to lug a log on his shoulder; added via inner strength

At 7.11 the camera is pointing at Dick while he is peddling and it pans from right to left. Seems like ole Dick had a cameraman with him.
It's a clever story, but scripted and produced. A very early "reality" show. But not entirely real.

Now this my friends is what u call a real man, a real tough man what u dont find today.

To have been so fed up with life in 1968 to do this can you imagine how he’d feel about life today

This guy was a savage , talented , resourceful .. 🔱🪓🛡🤨

So many question I've got for this man.

Joe Rogen brought me here….

How did he keep his camera's batteries charged??

Every American should be able to do this. This here is TRUE FREEDOM, not that shit they sell you on tv

Man times were so simple

Did he has a film crew with him

Consumptionism ruined our society. We are done already.

How’d he get batteries or charge the camera?

This amazing documentary of this incredible man is something that should be shared with the entire world to see and hear.Always had great admiration and respect for this man.

Legendary

THAT is the most important part about wanting a life like this is if one is able to handle their own company with absolutely nobody else around.

Lovely life, the alaskan version of agafia in russia.. hard but lovely.

There are so many comments about him, not doing the filming himself, and questions asking how he did it.

He used a 16mm Bolex. The Bolex was mounted on a tripod, and it was moderately heavy. From what I can remember (1973) they were about 4 lb., has a trigger lock, and could even shoot one frame at a time for animation. He would wind the camera, set the exposure, focus, set-up the scene, trip, and lock the shutter, then walk into the scene. The exposed reels were then sealed, and monthly flown out for processing. I believe they were stored at his sisters home in California. I also understand that the editing was done after his death, and the narration added from script taken from his many journals. I did this during my nine year stay alone in the wilderness. My camera was digital, weighed ounces, and I carried a 4# Manfrotto tripod. A Manfrotto clamp and quick release were lighter that a four pound tripod but there’s not as much to clamp to out in the forest as you would expect.

It’s been over a year since I was off-grid, and I have many conveniences that Dick didn’t have back in ‘68. The biggest luxury is LiFe PO4 batteries, small PV charging station, and LED lights. Not being able to charge the batteries in the depths of winter, mean I spent long periods with little to no light.

I plan to return to the wilderness, and plan to spend my remaining years there.

I watched with rapt fascination at Dick’s videos, and studied how he was able to cope, being alone, and the majority of his resources was between his two ears. I knew that someday soon I would be living the same life as Dick, but he did it for over thirty years, I only did it for nine years and three months. Let me assure you… It is in no way easy. Dick was much more mentally equipped to handle the loneliness than I was. Every year it got easier, but it was in no way, easy.

Merci.

Dick's roof was different that your picture shows. Shame on you.

Is there any account of this man having any Bigfoot encounters? Just curious being so isolated

What a legend.

PBS had this film so intercut with begging for donations I would go nuts trying to watch this. Thanks for the whole film in total.

I first saw this video in the 1800s. He was living well beyond all of us.

90% of his diet was fish because he didn’t like hurting animals a genius before his time

Fake

Before anyone asks any further Dick used a wind up 8mm camera. Yea he had friends that would fly in to deliver mail, deliver news, supplies. And before you ask, Dick the man in the video was also the camera man. He was also a vet.

How do we watch videos in order?

Who is the camera man?