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If you haven't read the book by Thor Heyerdahl you should. It's an amazing and well told adventure that can only command serious respect. http://www.amazon.com
by mixmax 17y ago
If you haven't read the book by Thor Heyerdahl you should. It's an amazing and well told adventure that can only command serious respect.
http://www.amazon.com/Kon-Tiki-Across-Pacific-Thor-Heyerdahl/dp/0671726528/ref=tmm_mmp_title_0 http://www.amazon.com/Kon-Tiki-Across-Pacific-Thor-Heyerdahl...
Here's a link to the heavy water sabotage in Norway during the second world war that Hauglund was a part of. Amazing stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage
- bootload 17y ago"... heavy water sabotage in Norway during the second world war that Hauglund was a part of ..." Hauglund was a Norwegian Commando who with British backing during WW2 survived on the Hardanger plateau ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardangervidda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardangervidda before sucessfully attacking and then escaping from the ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vemork http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vemork power station. Ray Mears ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mears_(author) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mears_(author) recreated the effort Hauglund and his fellow Commandos endured using members of UK RM 3 Commando, mountain leader training cadre ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Leader_Training_Cadre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Leader_Training_Cadre in 2003. You can watch how difficult a time Hauglund and his team (and their modern day equivalents) had here ~ http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=The+Real+Heroes+of+Telemark+youtube http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=The+Real+Heroes+of+Tel...
- thomasfl 17y agoAmazingly enough they also got an Oscar for the documentary about the kon tiki expedition. Preventing Hitler to get a nuclear bomb first, was not bad either.