Alaska Ping
Alaska Ping
Everyone of those Alaska "reality" shows have a common theme...the COLD.
I can tolerate a winter of snow, say...three, maybe four months of snow with average daily temps of 18-30 degrees.
But that damned minus 60 crap for eight months out of a year?
Nope, not for me.
But for those that can deal with it...good on 'em.
In my opinion, the beauty of Alaska is severely degraded by the unrelenting ice box conditions.
And I have been there.
92 days at Point Barrow.
91 days and 23 hours too long, in my humble opinion.
I'll just have to trust the Discovery Channel and National Geographic to show me the good side, without the damned cold.
And by the way...just who determines what a "remote family" is?
I'd say those guys that were photographed shooting arrows at an overhead helicopter most likely have wives and children and if they ain't "remote", I don't know what would be.
Journalistic hyperbole...how quaint.
I’m in the unusual position of probably being the person writing about this family who lives the closest to them. I met the photographer when he was coming through, and I know the pilot who flew him out to the Atchleys. I could probably snowmachine out to them in a few hours.
But the remotest family on Earth? Not even close. I’m willing to bet there are families in northern Canada, eastern Greenland, Easter Island and Tristan de Chuna in the south Atlantic that are much further away from other than these folks. Sheesh. Some editor is either getting reamed out right now about that headline, or getting an award for imaginative clickbait. Maybe both.