Man Will Spend 300 Days Alone On Pacific Island

Private Islands Blog ^ | 5-29-08 | Cheyenne Morrison

[kingattax]

French explorer and adventurer Xavier Rosset is about to embark on a 300 day trip to live alone on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific. His adventures will be filmed and used for a 52 minute documentary.

Xavier’s only luggage will be a Swiss army knife, machete video camera and a solar panel for charging the camera. He will spend 10 months alone on an island to develop another way of life through an exciting adventure, a return to the elemental sources. Xavier will survive alone on an island without human interference and without polluting emissions.

The ambition of this documentary is to make a reflection on our lifestyle, our current system and our relationship to nature. And the most important thing is to put the dream and emotion at the heart of adventure natural.

He will find timber to build a shelter, feed on the rudimentary fishing, plants and the harvesting of rainwater to survive.

The philosophy of this adventure is quite different than the existing issues which are aimed competition and the elimination of participants through a system of testing and votes. The primary motivation of this documentary is to draw attention to our planet, on our perception of the world around us and different ways to preserve the future.

Most men have forgotten how to live with nature because we have so far arranged the world according to our needs and desires that these bases, so important, have disappeared.

THE DOCUMENTARY

This 52-minute film will trace the life of a man returning to the sources for 10 months without any human interference, learning to adapt to medium term to its new environment, feeding on wildlife, flora and the local fishing.

The documentary will be mainly a parallel relationship between man, nature and the preservation of our environment.

This documentary will be seen on screens in spring 2009.

FILMING

Filming will be done entirely by Xavier who has good experience in video production. To bring up images of qualities, he will find tips to make every single plan reporting, dynamic and growing. The camera will be recharged with a battery powered by a photovoltaic panel.

DESTINATION AND DEPARTURE DATE

Several destinations were selected for the documentary, and with advice from Cheyenne Morrison the Kingdom of Tonga was finally selected as the destination for the filming.

August 8, 2007 Xavier visited Tonga, and with advice from the Tourism department selected the island for his adventure.

Tofua Island, a volcanic island lost in the middle of the Pacific. This will be the destination of Xavier for this adventure story.

On July 8, 2007, the Government of Tonga islands in the Pacific has adopted the idea of this documentary and greatly facilitates obtaining a visa and long-term authorizations shooting.

The destination is interesting because Tonga 2 volcanic islands would lend themselves well to this experience. They are isolated, with the vegetation, terrain and no human presence.

UPDATE

This is the latest email I received from Xavier ...

May 29th 2008

hello Cheyenne, thanks for zour mail.

My travel is very fine, I went on the island I am going to stay for 10 month. Tofua island. it is a very wild place and it exactly what I need. there is no sandy beach.. booh I don’t need it anyway... I stayed there for 3 days by walking around and drinking coconut...

Xavier Rosset Adventurer

[GRRRRR]

Day 3: Ooops, Dropped the video camera into the lagoon. It is gone. No reason to stay now that I can’t video myself. Zut alors!! Come and get me!...

[RightWhale]

He could step on a coral and be gone in 12 hours. Might be a reason the island is [nearly] uninhabited.

[valkyry1]

Really?

Are there any articles out on that topic?

[RightWhale]

Yes, indeed. Not all coral is so poisonous, but there is some that will ruin your day.

[Publius Valerius]

He’ll be able to do the old rubbing two sticks together to start a fire.

As I interpreted the article, I thought no fire because he said he wouldn't produce any "polluting emissions." I presume that smoke would fall into this category?

[Rebelbase]

The area inside the box has linear features that appear man made (roads, trails) .

[Rebelbase]

HA! From Wiki:

Tofua Island

Tofua has a population of about fifty. They are there primarily to grow kava (Piper methysticum) for export to Tongatapu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofua

[Ditto]

Xavier’s only luggage will be a Swiss army knife, machete ...

No fair. You can't make a Swiss Army knife of machete with out causing pollution.

We need to demand that this faker use only stone tools. If he wants us to go back to the stone age, he should go first.

Better not catch him with any Gortex or nylon either. They are both petrochemical.

[aruanan]

He will find timber to build a shelter, feed on the rudimentary fishing, plants and the harvesting of rainwater to survive.

Holy crap, he's going to alter the environment!

[Doomonyou]

The area inside the box has linear features that appear man made (roads, trails) .

It's Club-Med. I stayed there a couple weeks. It's nice.

[Lazamataz]

Sounds a lot like my life, except mine’s not voluntary.

[Ditter]

I think I would insist on some fishing line and a few hooks.

[attiladhun2]

Didn’t Laurel and Hardy discover an island that they declared an independent state, with all the attendant troubles. I think that island sank into the sea, also.

[attiladhun2]

Unless you want to end up with tape worms, all fish should be thoroughly cooked. I worked in the seafood processing industry in Alaska for 2 years. Even in the pristine waters of the Bering Sea, the fish are full of parasites. A nice, big tapeworm in your gut would definitely put a crimp in your outlook for survival. The show “Man vs Wild” is doing people a disservice by showing Bear Gryll eating raw trout and the like. A real no-no. You could get away with that, if you believe your rescue is imminent, but even insects ought to be cooked if you are stuck in a long-term survival situation.

[Oatka]

Those mentioning unexpected medical problems are spot on. Scientists who went to Antarctica for six months with no support, had their appendixes removed to prevent any problems in that area. And what about a toothache, broken bones, etc.?

Some years back a guy took his two kids on a wilderness trip to “get away from the aggravations of civilization and to see the wonders of nature”. They were rafting with some outfit when one of the kids got appendicitis. The guy running the raft radioed for help and a chopper came in and took the father and kids off to the hospital, where the kid survived.

So much for “getting away from the aggravations of civilization”. It is all so Utopian — until the stuff hits the fan.

[swatbuznik]

What’s he going to do, hold it in? I can’t imaging not going to the bathroom for 300 days.

A lib would say, "YES!" And even if he did and died from urinary complications, his decaying would STILL be a pollutant. A lib-enivro-wacko would say he shouldn't be there at all, so in effect, the idiot's point is utterly moot.