Our story takes place in Nazi-occupied Norway in 1943, in the frozen fjords and mountains of the Arctic north. It follows the almost unbelievable ordeal of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian resistance fighter whose mission behind enemy lines goes catastrophically wrong. What follows is a desperate fight for survival across some of the harshest terrain on earth — a story of avalanches, frostbite, starvation, and one man pushed far beyond what should be humanly possible to endure. It is also a story about the courage of ordinary people, villagers and strangers who risked everything to help him stay alive while German forces hunted for him across the mountains.
The main source for today’s story is the remarkable book We Die Alone by David Howarth, which reconstructs Jan’s journey in extraordinary detail using interviews with the people who helped him survive.
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