So, I've been laid up for the last few days having fun with an impacted wisdom tooth (that is about 20 years behind schedule) and a resulting infection. Soonest appointment I could get with the oral surgeon is next week. That's left me off from work, trapped at home, and seeing the world through the haze of a narcotic & antibiotic cocktail. (I think I just saw a lucid moment run past me, but I can't be sure...)
Anyway, as I'm prone to do in my pain-laden boredom, I start sharing all the stuff I find online.
Besides camping and bushcrafting stuff, another huge hobby/interest of mine is history. Books, docs, movies (especially older ones) I just love 'em.
Well, I found a documentary on YouTube that I'd seen some time ago, but forgotten about it until way early this morning when I couldn't stay horizontal because of the pressure it puts on my stupid teeth. Great WWII documentary (part of a series) about some of the things very few people know about that war.
youtube.com/watch?v=7V67Mn7PK9c
Summary: The doc is mostly about a badass team of Norwegians that the Brit's trained through their SOE back during WWII. These clandestine vikings were the key element that kept Hitler from being able to finish the atomic bomb. And, yeah, he was frighteningly damn close to it! But the bigger part of the story is how they parachuted on to the top of a huge arctic glacier shelf in the middle of winter so that they could rappel/climb/hike down in the spring time to sabotage this electric plant that was making "heavy water" (not the same as the heavy water some of you drug up and down the trail). The electric plant sat atop a mountain, surrounded on three sides by steep vertical ice cliffs, and had only one road with a suspension bridge leading to it. These badass Norwegian commandos spent the winter on damn near barren tundra, surviving on reindeer (damn, there goes Christmas), and finally scaled a huge ice-cliff just to sneak in and blow the crap out of this electric plant. Then they had to get off the mountain, ski/trek 200+ miles while evading nazi's that were hunting them down, and survive off the land again as they made their way in to Sweden.
I am not doing this story any justice by any means. If you like history doc's (those things that used to air on the History channel) then this is definitely worth checking out the next time you find yourself stuck indoors or otherwise unable to go play outside.
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Anyway, as I'm prone to do in my pain-laden boredom, I start sharing all the stuff I find online.
Besides camping and bushcrafting stuff, another huge hobby/interest of mine is history. Books, docs, movies (especially older ones) I just love 'em.
Well, I found a documentary on YouTube that I'd seen some time ago, but forgotten about it until way early this morning when I couldn't stay horizontal because of the pressure it puts on my stupid teeth. Great WWII documentary (part of a series) about some of the things very few people know about that war.
youtube.com/watch?v=7V67Mn7PK9c
Summary: The doc is mostly about a badass team of Norwegians that the Brit's trained through their SOE back during WWII. These clandestine vikings were the key element that kept Hitler from being able to finish the atomic bomb. And, yeah, he was frighteningly damn close to it! But the bigger part of the story is how they parachuted on to the top of a huge arctic glacier shelf in the middle of winter so that they could rappel/climb/hike down in the spring time to sabotage this electric plant that was making "heavy water" (not the same as the heavy water some of you drug up and down the trail). The electric plant sat atop a mountain, surrounded on three sides by steep vertical ice cliffs, and had only one road with a suspension bridge leading to it. These badass Norwegian commandos spent the winter on damn near barren tundra, surviving on reindeer (damn, there goes Christmas), and finally scaled a huge ice-cliff just to sneak in and blow the crap out of this electric plant. Then they had to get off the mountain, ski/trek 200+ miles while evading nazi's that were hunting them down, and survive off the land again as they made their way in to Sweden.
I am not doing this story any justice by any means. If you like history doc's (those things that used to air on the History channel) then this is definitely worth checking out the next time you find yourself stuck indoors or otherwise unable to go play outside.
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For once I'd just like to hear myself say, "Great job, self! Why don't you just take the day off."
For once I'd just like to hear myself say, "Great job, self! Why don't you just take the day off."
