Your post reminds me of one of my favorite movies - Alone in the Wilderness - Dick Proeneke. I’ve watched it more than a dozen times.
I own the movie. I watch it regularly.
One of the reasons I'd like to see the parts that didn't hit the film is because living like that is somewhat different in the telling than in the living. Sure. I made it. I'll tell some parts of it.
The day the dogs ran a cougar in front of the slit trench where I was squatting? There are details to that story that will never get told.
If you lived, you learned. ;)
/johnny