You are reduced to a crawling thing on the margin of a disintegrating world. Nothing will so quickly isolate a man.
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42
Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller
“The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Seth Boyer: https://sethboyer.bandcamp.com/track/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee
Based on the poem by Robert W. Service
Audio mastering by Mitch Cramer: https://twitter.com/heavyxeyed
SOURCES:
Books:
To Build a Fire (Jack London, 1908)
Alone (Richard Byrd, 1938)
The Stranger in the Woods (Michael Finkel, 2017)
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1937)
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (Laura Ingalls Wilder, 2014)
The Long Winter (Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1940)
Mountains of the Mind (Robert Macfarlane, 2003)
The Shining (Stephen King, 1977)
Who Goes There? (John W. Campbell, 1938)
Longform Articles:
The Big Thaw: Russia’s Permafrost is Melting: https://news.sky.com/story/russias-permafrost-is-thawing-and-it-could-make-melting-polar-ice-caps-look-like-a-sideshow-12359940
The Bizarre Bank Robbery That Shook an Arctic Town: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/norway-longyearbyen-bank-robbery/
Even At Its End, The Universe Will Never Reach Absolute Zero: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/11/12/even-at-its-end-the-universe-will-never-reach-absolute-zero/
The History of the Robbins Children: http://www.pioneergirl.com/blog/archives/9101
Frozen Alive: https://www.outsideonline.com/2152131/freezing-death/
The Coldest Place in the Universe: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-coldest-place-in-the-universe-8121922/
How the New Science of Freezing Can Save Your Life: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/how-new-science-freezing-can-save-your-life/
The Ice Inferno: https://aeon.co/essays/antarctica-a-place-of-wide-horizons-and-fragile-selves
What the Arctic Reveals about Coronavirus: https://www.arctictoday.com/what-the-arctic-reveals-about-coronavirus/
The Island Where No One Is Allowed to Die, or Give Birth: https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/experiences/adventure-holidays/103873808/svalbard-norway-the-island-where-no-one-is-allowed-to-die-or-give-birth
This was Ötzi the Iceman’s Last Meal: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/news-otzi-iceman-food-DNA-diet-meat-fat
Movies and TV: To Build A Fire (David Cobham, 1969) The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982), The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1977), Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, 2013), The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich, 2004), Little House on the Prairie (Episode 22, 1975)
Games: The Long Dark (2014), Frostpunk (2018), Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Music (chronologically): Theme for The Long Dark (The Long Dark), Un Dia En Granada (Vendla), Watery Grave (Carrion), Helix Bell (Christophe Gorman), One Must Go (Alec Slayne), Doubt (The Long Dark), Freezing Cold (Breath of the Wild), Silent Heaven (Silent Hill 2), Martian Law (Jon Bjork), Ennui (Cody High), Cold New Dawn & The Darkest of Days (Frostpunk), There’s Something I Have to Say (The Long Dark), Canonical Aside (Dead Space 2), A Cold Wind (Savvun), The Cremation of Sam McGee (Seth Boyer)
Additional footage from Getty Images
Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound
Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder
Description from “Alone” by Richard Byrd
gellarfear of coldfear of depths
