CAR / LOGISTICS
CAR / LOGISTICS
This project is really challenging in terms of logistics. A reliable small camping car is an absolutely essential tool for this project! The car will serve as:
1) BASE - Our extreme wilderness run across Norway is a running project and a film project at the same time. This means, the runner needs to have relatively light backpack, maximally up to 15 kg on multi-day segments. It is not possible to run the whole NPL unsupported with big 25+ kg backpack full of food for weeks, especially not in such a hard terrain. And not if we need to share sophisticated daily reports. So the runner must have a small support team. One, sometimes 2 people.
The whole 3000 km trail is divided into many shorter segments with "resupply points". Usually on places where the runner will be crossing a road or partly civilized place. There the runner will meet the team, resupply, change the batteries and SD cards with filmed footage, he will film the daily message for the social media, or take care of small injuries. Then he continues to run, and the team will drive to the next resupply point, where they meet again, sometimes several days later. This way, the car’ll be shown in different situations in fantastic places.
Editing daily reports in the middle of the night on remote and totally empty road in northern Norway during NPL 2021.
2) EDITING ROOM - important aspect of the trip is "Editing and posting content on the road". We will bring the audience many raw many daily reports (details here). That's why the support team has to have bigger car with electricity, internet and table, where it is possible to spend long hours working on computer, cook and sleep, no matter the bad weather outside etc.
Waiting on a strategic point during NPL 2022, where the runner can resupply, film daily interview and then continue.
It is simply impossible for the support team to spend more than 2 months on the front seats of fully loaded small car, during long cold rainy days somewhere in Jotunheimen or Finnmark, without the possibility to sleep, cook, edit movies and photos in the car.
This is Norway. Weather absolutely affects this project. So we must be prepared for the worst case scenario. We need something like VW California or Ford Tourneo Nugget (white car from our NPL 2022 expedition). A lot bigger camping cars can't drive on the small curvy mountain roads. A mid size van works too, but as you can see on the pictures (red car) below from 2021 training NPL mission, without dedicated table, kitchen and bed, it is a mess and hard re-packing work several times a day.
NPL TRAINING TRIP 2021 / NPL 2022
