The 'Most Elusive' Man in North America

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we are all searching for something for most the complexities of modern-day existence have us trapped in a state of mind a place where our truest potential is clouded by the expectations of society what does it take to awake from the haze in our search for the answer we were told of a man who had been through it all and broken free this is a story of DAG Abbie [Music] [Music] [Music] that Yami is probably the neatest old gentleman I have ever run into in my life we used to run in each other the pub no Deana we sit down and have a little chitchat bring ourselves up to speed on what's going on in her life and he's given me chef you're still working and I said well Christ I Lindy you're still running so what's the issue yeah he he's somewhat reclusive and he lives halfway up so we start in the school bus and very few people know where it is I haven't seen it yet I've been invited but my fat little body may not get all the way up the hill to her he goes cuz I mean he hustles smoke I mean he still goes and runs a hundred mile races and and finishes first in his class and I'm thinking I couldn't come closer to what he dies I had got introduced to dag and to her enough Johansson his friends from Norway and they were both here too or at sunshine too to get a Canadians certification that would have been about 71 72 in that era I can remember at sunshine on some of the cliffs he was always leaping over those every free moment he had he was he was freestyling and he wasn't that interested in doing a snow plow Turner we're working on the some of those basics and you know he could go off a jump and he was always kind of knew where where the feet should be he wasn't driven by any kind of a financial thing as long as he had enough money to put a little bit of food into his stomach and and have a few beers he was a happy camper it was it was in the Whistler area and he had been skiing trying to get into the powder and there was a very large avalanche he managed to ski out through it and didn't break any bones and didn't hurt his pride by getting caught underneath it and yeah he's not very many people can I would ski those things and it was a big one with Deng he doesn't have a phone he doesn't have email he's very elusive very mysterious my fascination with him I guess you could say began a long time ago I grew up here and thought wow like this this is such a cool local guy I really want to do a local feature about him and thus began the process of finding him which as you know is no easy feat [Music] the first time I met with dag I think it was early spring and I didn't really know completely where we were going my editor thought it was completely crazy he's like you're going out of cell service up a mountain with this brand and got like what are you thinking it was like it was a good hike I was pretty pretty wiped by the end of it just beautiful and so cool to just kind of hang out with him kind of on an informal basis and and chat with him such a privilege to go up there and just really rewarding to bring to light this story of this local man that I think a lot of people have seen him they kind of know a little bit about him but maybe not the first story not that we'll ever probably know the full story of day [Music] [Applause] [Music] after weeks of searching we remain empty-handed an uneasy feeling falls over us smoke from nearing wildfires settles in the valley a once fierce Sun now cast a muted light and the mountains disappear behind the haze we can't help but see the smoke as a symbol for Dex elusiveness [Music] maybe [Music] never that easy it's a complement to life work as hard as you can to stay alive because there's a gift life is a gift to me there is no age it's just life you know H is something other people will put on you like when my dad got fifty they said oh yeah oh no you can't go in the ghost by yourself yeah and the age has been put to me all my life and so H is something I deal with and to me I don't have an age I am an independent person I had my family and and everything has been great and that was my turn to live as simple as possible where I can train hard I can can be outside because I love being outside I can do everything I want I I don't think I could ever live in the house I live in the bus now I could never live in the house I couldn't just yeah because I don't need much room I called my place of my lair because I'm I'm gone all day but building trails in an unknown place is exploring yeah you're exploring something new you're going where people haven't been for a long long time it's an art form because of you like I say you wanna read a minute you know it's not like you're building a road you just go straight no here you have to fold in the land if you want to have a life where you have more to do that time a trail gives you that because you know you're always working out I'm perfectly imperfect because if you're perfectly imperfect you always have to work on yourself you can always try I am what am I saying is you know tomorrow I want to be a better person than today you can always work in yourself and if you work on yourself you don't have time to talk about other people or worry about other people you know I get a lot oh and seeing comments from people because they don't understand Stanley what is there to understand I don't try to understand people you know they do their thing I leave them alone yeah their only person you won't understand really it's yourself so I'm gonna just keep them moving their way I do you know because like I said there's no each hold in your head but you know he puts a person in walks walks on this person gonna die pretty quick because you said that you're old now you're ready to go you know but my I can't have a bad death because when I was back I have a full wife to look back on I didn't spend in front of a TV [Music] I always thought of something and I did it and that's why I did so much in my life I just went out on the landing and what the hell [Music]

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Channel: The Atlantic

Views: 1,397,932

Rating: 4.6608891 out of 5

Keywords: Dag Aabye, The Death Race, British Columbia, Recluse, Vernon, ultra marathon, endurance, Never die easy, exporing, unplugged, mountains, trailblazing, hiking, running, inspiring, off the grid, athletic, races, marathons, Remarkable People

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Length: 13min 55sec (835 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 14 2018

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