Watch: Into The Great Solitude

If you have never watched (or have fond memories) of the classic Robert Perkins PBS documentary Into the Great Solitude, thankfully it’s on YouTube these days. It tells the story of Robert Perkins’ seventy-two day solo canoe journey in the Canadian Arctic…

Winner of many major awards, his best-known work provides a captivating look at Perkins as a young man willing to take on the challenges of the Canadian Arctic on a long solo canoe trip. Battling rapids and black flies, while dancing with his own demons and his shadow, Perkins explores what it means to survive in the stark beauty of the Canadian tundra. Perkins not only takes on arduous physical challenges, but he lyrically describes in film and language how the journey helps him find peace with his father.