This documentary was mildly interesting, if only for the footage of parts of the world that are rarely seen, but there didn't seem to any reason for telling this story.
It would have been interesting to know why he felt compelled to make this journey, leaving his wife and two young daughters behind for more than two years. What did he learn about himself or the people and places he visiited? How did he feel after completing the journey: was it worth it? What we got was basically a travelogue: arrived here, waited a couple of days for weather, walked for ten days, arrived somewhere else, got on a boat, boat broke, had to repair boat, arrived somewhere else, etc., etc.
I was curious to know why there seemed to be so many logistical cock-ups, but these were never discussed. Why did he set off so late in the summer that when he arrived at Baffin Island on schedule the sea was already too frozen to continue, costing him two months? Why didn't he arrange with Russia in advance for permission to travel across Siberia instead of just turning up and being turned away, costing him three months? But again it was just a list of what he did, never why,
It would have been interesting to know why he felt compelled to make this journey, leaving his wife and two young daughters behind for more than two years. What did he learn about himself or the people and places he visiited? How did he feel after completing the journey: was it worth it? What we got was basically a travelogue: arrived here, waited a couple of days for weather, walked for ten days, arrived somewhere else, got on a boat, boat broke, had to repair boat, arrived somewhere else, etc., etc.
I was curious to know why there seemed to be so many logistical cock-ups, but these were never discussed. Why did he set off so late in the summer that when he arrived at Baffin Island on schedule the sea was already too frozen to continue, costing him two months? Why didn't he arrange with Russia in advance for permission to travel across Siberia instead of just turning up and being turned away, costing him three months? But again it was just a list of what he did, never why,
