Stumbled upon this as I was searching for more content of Innuit life. Read about Franklin, Amundsen, Hudson and other great explorers but to see you and your group interact with the locals and continue on after being denied your initial goal was fantastic. I was intrigued how different the dog teams were tied versus more western ones. (Alaska and Canada's arctic coastline) Thank you for sharing your trip and have already checked out your other vids like comparing weather gear. Cheers from the Northeast of America with Canadian, German and Welsh heritage. We are just one family trying to live our lives in peace no matter what country we hail from. If only we could xxx the politicians.
Thanks for the amazing perspective on a world rarely shown as the reality that it is by conventional media. It's a stark reminder to the comfortable lives we are able to live. Keep up the great work and I look forward to all the experiences , both small and large, that you are able to share with us.
Really glad I spent an hour viewing this video. Well done! It is quite interesting to see the contrasts of northern life by region, culture, and geography. As they say their is more than one way to skin a cat! Beautiful presentation. Thank you for sharing via this medium, thoroughly enjoyed!!!
I didn't know what this was of how long it was going to be, I just clicked it and watched. What a pleasant surprise this film was, such an interesting expedition giving us a look into the lives of people up in the North of Scotland! I was especially amazed to see so much love from the dogs! I still wouldn't call them pets, but team members they were for certain! Thank you very much for taking the time to film and edit this.
Good strong dogs! Dave - what a character. God... I don't think I could go there because the dogs are so cute I wouldn't be able to leave. I bred blue and red Australian Cattle Dogs for 23 years and working dogs, after you've been around them, do something to you I reckon. Fight, bite, growl, snarl, bad tempered but would willing and happily die to save your life if the need arises. The moments of affection with such utilitarian breeds make your heart melt don't they? Somehow makes it all even more special.
Bravo!! A beautiful struggle between between men, beasts and the elements. Humanity needs struggle, …typed from the comfort of a couch. Also enjoyed the sarcasm and humor!
This video deserves so much more exposure than it has gotten! I love the Arctic always have and always will. Truly nothing like it. I have a strong pull toward cold climates when it comes to surfing, ice caving, skiing, etc. I hope to one day experience what it is like to live in the far north, the way the locals do. Truly inspiring enjoyed every minute of this video. Congrats.
Thanks so much for taking us on your journey. I was really surprised that the dogs were more like pets than working dogs, you guys formed such beautiful relationships with your dogs.
Much appreciated. Yes the dogs are on the whole very friendly and they appreciated attention. Although, some can initially be shy, and they lack the normal obedience training you'd expect from a pet. It's also important to throw food and not hand it out, as they haven't learned not to take your fingers off with it.
Ended up being just as good as I had hoped! Headphones solved the problem of my pup getting rattled by the constant ruckus of the sled dogs. Thank you for posting, it was endlessly entertaining and excellent to see what your expeditions look like!
@@AlexHibbertOriginals Just so you know it was a very good film. I am sure the time spent there was a life time of memories. I am glad you could share it.
Came for the adventure. Stayed for the Doggies, Dave was brilliant, but Thor, bejeezus, what a God of a dog, so glad he made it :-) Can only hope 'Alan' is half as tough as Thor ;-) great vid dude, keep em coming. Thank you.
If you are going to take a trip up in the cold and want a Scandinavian with you, you have three choices: Firstly, you have the one who knows everything and is tirelessly fast, Norwegian. Then you have the one who solves all problems, Swedish. Finally, the fun and pleasant, Danish.
"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question."....... woof... On the one hand the respect for privacy of the culture was laudable but it would have been fascinating to hear and see your experience with the people given that you are an awesome story teller.
Absolutely love your content. Looking forward to the next update on the lifeboat. Signed books on the way...they will go in the library for our guests to thumb after a detailed read by me!
Thanks for a great video! What an exciting adventure. We have two Yorkshire terriers that are impossible to get to follow commands so I really understand the challenge of getting 22 dogs to behave :-) !
This should be on discovery or history channel or something. I love your style. I believe dogs are Angels sent here to teach us unconditional Love. I couldn't live without mine I know that. I have always had at least 1 dog.....
@@AlexHibbertOriginals This was the RUclips gods who weren't helping you. I'm personally not on IG, I rely on my YT feed to give me what I want. Usually it gives me your videos reliably
Thank you for sharing. I have a passing interest in this kind of expedition. Mostly theoretical, not practical. I would love spending a few days doing what you do, but am content to watch it from afar. Great content!
I'm not sure why you went on that excursion.? Other than just for the experience of living that lifestyle. But it did look like an amazing experience.! Excellent video.!!👍
It is called adventure. Adventure = interesting stuff + Adrenalin + other cultures (not of the bacterial/fungal kind) + comradeship + testing yourself under difficult circumstances etc. now compare that with a stroll to the park in the morning, lunch at a cosy cafe and an arvo of computer games… seriously though, none of the world would have been discovered if not for our innate need to have adventure going back from the dawn of human kind. For some of us it is hard wired and we cannot choose any other path. As an Aussie I spent about 20 nights each winter sleeping in tents in the snow or digging snow caves while exploring the roof of Australia by map and compass at the grand altitude of 2,200m and I have the fondest memories of my life about those expeditions.
They were Savage .300 WIn Mags. Just a quick sandpaper on the barrel and then Hammerite. It was for safety in the dark - so we could see the direction of the weapon.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals I had never heard of Hammerite being used as a gun finish, but it makes sense in the conditions. but certainly a great choice for bears!
What an amazing experience, and great video. Does it get depressing with all the darkness? It's like Dances With Wolves with a lot of male bonding. Lol.
That is an amazing journey we can only envy. Remarkable storytelling. Did you get meat delivered for the dogs, or did you also learn how to hunt them? Say, are James living in a van?
Only locals have legal permission to hunt, with the exception of seals that we could have harvested. We saw how the latter was done in winter, but didn't do so ourselves. And James. #vanlife. It's a climber thing.
Uffff what a video!!!! Well done alex we'll see a fascinated and diferent adventure with your crew of friends and ALAN!! Greetings from mexico!! Take tequilas shoot for warm you up.. Or for diesel sustituted.. 🤷♂️🤣🤣🤣
Just wondering if any of your books will ever have an audiobook version. I’m Super dyslexic so I find it hard to read entire books so I pretty much exclusively enjoy books through audio form, so an audiobook would enable me to actually read some of them. Also I’m sure tons of people who are able to read full books just enjoy audiobooks more.
Yes a lot of people are requesting this. It's a significant financial investment to audiobook an already published book, as you've lost the initial surge of sales.
Yes, the campsite near the LYR airport frequently has bears pass by. Condolences if you knew Johan. The dogs in Greenland are a very different character and type though, and the bears are very wary of them because of continued bear hunting in the region. Bears are totally protected in Svalbard and so are less likely to associate dogs with danger.
I have spent quite a bit of time studying Greenland and and greenlandic archaeology and ethnology and I gotta say: That's an awfully wide dog sled! Did the locals make any remarks that you know of? A traditional thule district sled is rather light normally
Hi. No, the sled was a normal heavy-weight sea ice design. The width was a local's decision, not ours. These 5m long sleds would be to carry large hunting loads.
Hi mate, great mini-doc! A question, what was the, “Arctic grade working dog dry food”, you spoke of? If you remember the brand name that is. We have our own team of Inuit/Eskimo Dogs here, also Alaskan Huskies and a Malamute, living in Northern Canada. My wife and I are just curious as to what the dry food you fed the dogs was.
Thanks for that. The stuff in Greenland was Royal Canin's working dog line. The dogs loved it. I've also used much denser Inukshuk food, but dogs don't seem to be so keen. It's useful for long trips where weight is an issue though and you need calorie density.
I just started to watch you videos, are you still having the rolling problem? I think you can mount two swim platforms on each side of your boat the kind I have on my searay boat, not much weight, but will limit the rolling problem, a few boat fenders on the bottom side of each swim platform, , maybe I am too late,
@@AlexHibbertOriginals I lose the will to live just thinking about wasting away trying to edit. I started it, but will have to finish when I get off work. Already a big #davethedog fan though! Awesome stuff
Central supply from a diesel generator in Qaanaaq. In the small settlements, small generators - although I think Siorapaluk and Qeqertat now have power.
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What great video! Scotland has never looked better
Shocking
Not to be dramatic but I would die for Dave.
My father was stationed in the attic in WW2, on Baffin Island..he came home with a great admiration of the Inuit. I would like to be with you guys.
Artic circle, damn spell check
my attic does get pretty cold in the winter.
Stumbled upon this as I was searching for more content of Innuit life. Read about Franklin, Amundsen, Hudson and other great explorers but to see you and your group interact
with the locals and continue on after being denied your initial goal was fantastic. I was intrigued how different the dog teams were tied versus more western ones. (Alaska and Canada's arctic coastline) Thank you for sharing your trip and have already checked out your other vids like comparing weather gear. Cheers from the Northeast of America
with Canadian, German and Welsh heritage. We are just one family trying to live our lives in peace no matter what country we hail from. If only we could xxx the politicians.
I'm glad you enjoyed. Cheers!
Outstanding video! You've showcased the glamor and glitz of the far north brilliantly.
I really appreciate it
Thanks for the amazing perspective on a world rarely shown as the reality that it is by conventional media. It's a stark reminder to the comfortable lives we are able to live. Keep up the great work and I look forward to all the experiences , both small and large, that you are able to share with us.
Cheers
Really glad I spent an hour viewing this video. Well done! It is quite interesting to see the contrasts of northern life by region, culture, and geography. As they say their is more than one way to skin a cat! Beautiful presentation. Thank you for sharing via this medium, thoroughly enjoyed!!!
Cheers
I didn't know what this was of how long it was going to be, I just clicked it and watched. What a pleasant surprise this film was, such an interesting expedition giving us a look into the lives of people up in the North of Scotland! I was especially amazed to see so much love from the dogs! I still wouldn't call them pets, but team members they were for certain! Thank you very much for taking the time to film and edit this.
Thanks David - this is most appreciated.
Great video. I especially loved the dogs. I have 2 huskies myself, and love watching snow dogs doing what they were bred to do.
Cheers
Great video! Even I who grew up in Scandinavia learnt a lot by watching this!
You're welcome
really good Arctic vlogs!
A fantastic film, worth watching. A wonderful adventure
Good strong dogs!
Dave - what a character. God...
I don't think I could go there because the dogs are so cute I wouldn't be able to leave. I bred blue and red Australian Cattle Dogs for 23 years and working dogs, after you've been around them, do something to you I reckon. Fight, bite, growl, snarl, bad tempered but would willing and happily die to save your life if the need arises. The moments of affection with such utilitarian breeds make your heart melt don't they? Somehow makes it all even more special.
There's something about the mutual respect between working dogs and their humans.
Bravo!! A beautiful struggle between between men, beasts and the elements. Humanity needs struggle, …typed from the comfort of a couch. Also enjoyed the sarcasm and humor!
Cheers
This video deserves so much more exposure than it has gotten! I love the Arctic always have and always will. Truly nothing like it. I have a strong pull toward cold climates when it comes to surfing, ice caving, skiing, etc. I hope to one day experience what it is like to live in the far north, the way the locals do. Truly inspiring enjoyed every minute of this video. Congrats.
That's really kind Justin. Hopefully the RUclips gods will trend it one day.
Thanks so much for taking us on your journey. I was really surprised that the dogs were more like pets than working dogs, you guys formed such beautiful relationships with your dogs.
Much appreciated.
Yes the dogs are on the whole very friendly and they appreciated attention. Although, some can initially be shy, and they lack the normal obedience training you'd expect from a pet. It's also important to throw food and not hand it out, as they haven't learned not to take your fingers off with it.
Thanks for sharing your adventure, truly a gem. I absolutely loved the dogs and narration. 😊
Ended up being just as good as I had hoped! Headphones solved the problem of my pup getting rattled by the constant ruckus of the sled dogs. Thank you for posting, it was endlessly entertaining and excellent to see what your expeditions look like!
Glad you made it through.
Another RUclips rabbit hole I didn’t think I’d ever go down. Thanks for putting this out there and sharing this journey
I'd say 'anytime', but after days of editing..... it would be a promise I'd struggle to keep.
Alan's cool and all but this video was possibly one of your best so far. I look forward to more expedition videos
Well.... thank you!
Thank you, Alex, you are a very good storyteller and this is a fascinating video. The dogs are just fabulous!
Thanks Anthony
Really awesome content. Thanks again!
Cheers
I am 47mins in now and This is super good. I hate seeing this only has 7500 views. This is a pretty good film. I hope more people will see this!
It is pretty galling when 5 min shorts of mine have 500k+ views. But it's how the RUclips gods work!
@@AlexHibbertOriginals Just so you know it was a very good film. I am sure the time spent there was a life time of memories. I am glad you could share it.
Appreciated
Thank you for a an amazing video story of the Sled dogs and your relationship with them.
Thanks for watching!
Came for the adventure. Stayed for the Doggies, Dave was brilliant, but Thor, bejeezus, what a God of a dog, so glad he made it :-) Can only hope 'Alan' is half as tough as Thor ;-) great vid dude, keep em coming. Thank you.
Alan has a lot to live up to.
Awesome Perspective! Thank you for sharing your work!
Stunning , Thankyou for posting 👍🇮🇲❤️
Cheers
excellent video! I watched the whole film. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us all.
You're welcome
Stunning scenery, and what an adventure!
It was!
What an adventure. Thank you for sharing your unique adventure with us.
P.s I think I lost my heart to Dave dog🐺🥰💙
Thanks to you for that.
Beautiful footage and such a hard but awesome trip.
If you are going to take a trip up in the cold and want a Scandinavian with you, you have three choices: Firstly, you have the one who knows everything and is tirelessly fast, Norwegian. Then you have the one who solves all problems, Swedish. Finally, the fun and pleasant, Danish.
*thinks they know everything ;)
"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question."....... woof... On the one hand the respect for privacy of the culture was laudable but it would have been fascinating to hear and see your experience with the people given that you are an awesome story teller.
Cheers
I really enjoyed watching this documentation of your adventure!
Cheers
Truly Inspirational
Absolutely love your content. Looking forward to the next update on the lifeboat. Signed books on the way...they will go in the library for our guests to thumb after a detailed read by me!
Most kind! I hope they're enjoyed.
Amazing stuff. Can't believe there's 5 Dislikes! Probably because not a single grinder was in the video. You just can't please everyone.
Thanks for a great video! What an exciting adventure. We have two Yorkshire terriers that are impossible to get to follow commands so I really understand the challenge of getting 22 dogs to behave :-) !
Nice one! Can't wait for your expedition with Alan.
This is amazing 👏
Okay, okay. I might buy all of your books now.
Well. Now that's a plan.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals they’d be great in audiobook form, I’m sure. I’m a very slow reader. ADHD, ya know.
Lovely!!! Thanks!!!!
Cheers
Great video Alex!
Thanks, I loved seeing this.
Cheers
What a amazing adventure.
Absolutely love this video.
Thank you
This should be on discovery or history channel or something. I love your style.
I believe dogs are Angels sent here to teach us unconditional Love. I couldn't live without mine I know that. I have always had at least 1 dog.....
We tried!
This is amazing it should have way more views than it does!
Thanks - yes the RUclips gods are in charge of the algorithm !
This was awesome!
I'm so sad that the algorithm didn't like this - I only knew about it because you mentioned it at the end of another video
Yes, the RUclips gods are fickle!
@@AlexHibbertOriginals This was the RUclips gods who weren't helping you. I'm personally not on IG, I rely on my YT feed to give me what I want. Usually it gives me your videos reliably
Oops! Typo.
Great video!
Love this content! Very cool
Really cool and fun to watch thank you for this content!
Respect to you all!
Thank you for sharing. I have a passing interest in this kind of expedition. Mostly theoretical, not practical. I would love spending a few days doing what you do, but am content to watch it from afar. Great content!
Thanks Brian. You've chosen the more comfortable of the two options!
@@AlexHibbertOriginals If I'm going to die for a hobby it will be in my Ultralight aircraft...hopefully quickly. :-)
fascinating!
I'm not sure why you went on that excursion.? Other than just for the experience of living that lifestyle.
But it did look like an amazing experience.!
Excellent video.!!👍
It is called adventure. Adventure = interesting stuff + Adrenalin + other cultures (not of the bacterial/fungal kind) + comradeship + testing yourself under difficult circumstances etc. now compare that with a stroll to the park in the morning, lunch at a cosy cafe and an arvo of computer games… seriously though, none of the world would have been discovered if not for our innate need to have adventure going back from the dawn of human kind. For some of us it is hard wired and we cannot choose any other path. As an Aussie I spent about 20 nights each winter sleeping in tents in the snow or digging snow caves while exploring the roof of Australia by map and compass at the grand altitude of 2,200m and I have the fondest memories of my life about those expeditions.
Just ordered the polar eskimo and I'm really looking forward :) I reckon it'll fit next to Briggs and Nansen :D
Esteemed company!
Love it, I want to go there
the gun nut in me wants to know how and why the barrel of that Remington 700 was yellow, and how on earth you got the paint to stay!
They were Savage .300 WIn Mags. Just a quick sandpaper on the barrel and then Hammerite. It was for safety in the dark - so we could see the direction of the weapon.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals I had never heard of Hammerite being used as a gun finish, but it makes sense in the conditions.
but certainly a great choice for bears!
More White Bears in Canada . FYI. @@osarkthegoat7038
The dogs have awsome names ;-)
AMAZINGNES!!!
Dave is my hero
He's a role model for many.
What an amazing experience, and great video. Does it get depressing with all the darkness? It's like Dances With Wolves with a lot of male bonding. Lol.
The darkness for us was a choice, so I didn't find it too daunting. Although doing the full October to March every year....
That is an amazing journey we can only envy. Remarkable storytelling. Did you get meat delivered for the dogs, or did you also learn how to hunt them? Say, are James living in a van?
Only locals have legal permission to hunt, with the exception of seals that we could have harvested. We saw how the latter was done in winter, but didn't do so ourselves.
And James. #vanlife. It's a climber thing.
Uffff what a video!!!! Well done alex we'll see a fascinated and diferent adventure with your crew of friends and ALAN!!
Greetings from mexico!! Take tequilas shoot for warm you up.. Or for diesel sustituted.. 🤷♂️🤣🤣🤣
Thanks Adrian
Alan's had quite the glowup
Just wondering if any of your books will ever have an audiobook version. I’m Super dyslexic so I find it hard to read entire books so I pretty much exclusively enjoy books through audio form, so an audiobook would enable me to actually read some of them. Also I’m sure tons of people who are able to read full books just enjoy audiobooks more.
Yes a lot of people are requesting this. It's a significant financial investment to audiobook an already published book, as you've lost the initial surge of sales.
Nice one
Cheers
all the dogs yelling made my dog very confused 😂
You're not the first! I may have to add a warning....
This guy I knew was eaten by a polar bear on Svalbard last year. The guard dogs failed him. Beware.
Yes, the campsite near the LYR airport frequently has bears pass by. Condolences if you knew Johan.
The dogs in Greenland are a very different character and type though, and the bears are very wary of them because of continued bear hunting in the region. Bears are totally protected in Svalbard and so are less likely to associate dogs with danger.
I have spent quite a bit of time studying Greenland and and greenlandic archaeology and ethnology and I gotta say: That's an awfully wide dog sled! Did the locals make any remarks that you know of? A traditional thule district sled is rather light normally
Hi. No, the sled was a normal heavy-weight sea ice design. The width was a local's decision, not ours. These 5m long sleds would be to carry large hunting loads.
Loved it. Can I ask what camera did you use that can handle that cold?
Mostly Sony RX100s. The batteries can be prewarmed. And you can keep the cameras in a plastic bag under your clothes.
Hi mate, great mini-doc!
A question, what was the, “Arctic grade working dog dry food”, you spoke of? If you remember the brand name that is.
We have our own team of Inuit/Eskimo Dogs here, also Alaskan Huskies and a Malamute, living in Northern Canada. My wife and I are just curious as to what the dry food you fed the dogs was.
Thanks for that. The stuff in Greenland was Royal Canin's working dog line. The dogs loved it. I've also used much denser Inukshuk food, but dogs don't seem to be so keen. It's useful for long trips where weight is an issue though and you need calorie density.
I just started to watch you videos, are you still having the rolling problem? I think you can mount two swim platforms on each side of your boat the kind I have on my searay boat, not much weight, but will limit the rolling problem, a few boat fenders on the bottom side of each swim platform, , maybe I am too late,
Thanks for this. I've had some ideas, and it's going to be a major multi-episode job later in the year.
I was literally just on the channel about to complain about missing you...
Never gone. Always plotting. Or losing the will to live amongst video editing software.....
@@AlexHibbertOriginals I lose the will to live just thinking about wasting away trying to edit. I started it, but will have to finish when I get off work. Already a big #davethedog fan though! Awesome stuff
This was enjoyable to watch and interesting. Do you happen to know what was in all those drums at 38:51 ?
Just a long accumulation of fuel drums from years and years. They are delivered by ship, but it's not economically viable to collect the empties.
it's 6380km to reach the barrier. can you do it?
i would have had to keep at least one of those dogs.
What on earth was that dog teams on open water footage??
Some sections of sea ice flood before breaking up for the summer.
how does one afford the time/money to be able to do this?
Self employment, and I actually took the financial risk myself - hoping to be paid back in years to come.
What kind of gun we're you using
They were Savage 30-06s, and also a single barrel 12G.
How do they get power?
Central supply from a diesel generator in Qaanaaq. In the small settlements, small generators - although I think Siorapaluk and Qeqertat now have power.
Documentary about how your parents went to school as told by them.
Underrated
#davethedog
Guns how American of you lol