Alaska Long Hunters

The plot

This award-winning story follows the life of a young pilot who flew in Alaska’s frontier arctic. Experience the front-seat thrills of bush planes and helicopters operating in the most dangerous conditions on earth, airborne among the magnificent mountains, glaciers, and rivers that only Alaska has to offer. Includes true-life experiences of accidents, comradeship, humor, and heartbreak of life in early Alaska, gone forever when dismantled into parks in the 1980s. Based on the book Last of the Long Hunters by Mark Rose, the scene opens with an early history of the Great Land and those that lived in it through interviews with several life-long Alaskans, including Hilda Lidner, Ray Atkins, and Gale Ranney to name a few. Leading up to the introduction of the author's use of a new tool of transport – the single-engine airplane, but not without extracting a terrible price. Experience what it was like to grow up among the dangerous game, hunt the massive caribou herds, and absorb the greatness of the county. Pilots will gain from the flying experiences related. Every boy, man, and aviator will be compelled to grapple with its final truth, concluding with a crisis encounter that forever changed the pilot's life forever.

Filmed on location in Alaska. Premiered Spring 2020. www.alaskalonghunters.com

• Age Rating General (12 and under)
• Running time 01:01:56 mins



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