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Life Below Zero
2013 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 23 seasons
Viewers go deep into an Alaskan winter to meet six tough and resilient residents as they try to stay one step ahead of storms and man-eating beasts to make it through to spring. The closest neighbor to Sue Aikens is more than 300 miles away. Eric Salitan subsists solely on what he hunts and forages. Chip and Agnes Hailstone catch fish for currency in bartering for supplies, and Andy and Kate Bassich use their pack of sled dogs for transportation.
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A show I've been watching consistently (about 5 seasons) is Port Protection. It's all about the day to day existence of people living a subsistence lifestyle in the town of Port Protection, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.
I often wonder what it would be like to live that life without the money pressure they have. Where you're not trapping beaver to pay for bullets, so you can hunt deer to have enough food for the winter etc. There are lots of other shows like this ("The Last Alaskans", "Life Below Zero", "Yukon Men" etc).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4838586/
Of late I have been enthralled by this show called 'Life Below Zero' (It's on Netflix and I really recommend watching it) - it's a reality TV show which profiles folks living in the Alaskan Bush. It primarily revolves around 4-5 different folks who live in various extreme remote parts of Alaska.
Reading this article, it really reminded me of one of the lead characters, Glenn Villeneuve (http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/life-below-zero/articles/glenn-villeneuve/), who lives a very spartan and primitive (by his own choosing) hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the Brooks Range (Chandalar, AK). He hunts for all his food and just boils them mostly (and often times eats them raw). He doesn't not use seasoning at all. I am guessing his gut microbes must be pretty robust and diverse.
Main difference between Hadza and his place is that food sources are very spread out and thin in Chandalar. Most of the show is just following him trying to find his food.
[OT: I generally dislike watching reality TV shows (and also TV in general). But this show has made me change my opinion on reality TV. Or it could just be because Alaska has a special place in my heart :)]