Crazy Frenchman Missing in Alaska

That's what people who met him called him, but in a friendly and admiring way. Every year people like this drift up here and die or end up being rescued from some ridiculous situation.

But, Francois Guenot seems to be a different sort. He's pedaled thousands of miles on bikes he found in dumps, built his own kayak out of scraps and worked hard at various manual labor jobs to earn money for each stage of his adventure. In the linked story, everyone who met him liked him and then in the commentary below the story others step forward and remark that he was a fine and thoughtful guy.

Guenot's philosophy was “I’d rather die in the ocean than die chained to a desk like a dog." That may have happened, but some who met him think he will still turn up.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140622/french-traveler-known-taking-risks-missing-southwest-alaska

An earlier story on Guenot from NW Canada:

http://www.yukon-news.com/life/close-call-for-lost-adventurer

 

Follow up, with a bit more info.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140623/search-suspended-frenchman-missing-along-alaskas-wild-katmai-coast

 

Suspect this story. Because it says about the Frenchman: "Everyone liked him.". Just sayin'.

 

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

 

My attempt at ha ha. I have no ill will towards anyone...SO, two lesbians enter a bar...

 

He just seemed like a really great guy. Some of these other people who show up are just flakes, but this Guenot just wanted to live on the edge and he prepped as well as he could within his limited means. When you roll the dice sometimes you lose... Francois Guenot has my respect.

Google Chris McCandless or Timothy Treadwell for flakes who don't earn my respect.

 

Life Below Zero on NG channel is great...I admire anyone who makes his own way.

 

Bloody French...drop filthy bombs in my backyard...Fighting for relevence...Never mind just the Dutch...i think the whole of (western) Europe is fighting for relevance these days...But there are good and bad people, thats all.

 

I'm all for French Immersion, I just wish they would hold them under for a little longer.

 

Vive la France, dammit!

If Guenot ever comes crawling out of the alders asking for a glass of wine, a biscuit and some neosporin for all the bear bites, I'm going to tell him what you guys said and then send him over to Poppies house. He will be one angry Frenchman!

 

lol Fred...

Hope those french brass balls emerge from the forest. Best wishes to the man.

 

Follow up - crazy Frenchman still missing.

http://www.adn.com/article/20140718/ragtag-adventurer-france-still-missing-along-gulf-alaska-coast

 

Cac what cave have you been living in. The last atomic test performed by the French in the Pacific was under President Chirac, that was years ago and it was in their own "back yard" and thousand kms away from your home. I'm not saying what they did those days is right, it was just like the Brits the Americans, and the Russians did before . Fighting for reverence ? who isn't?

kodiak ? What's wrong with the Dutch?

 

I thought that was sarcasm. Could be wrong though.

 

about the Dutch ? Don't know , it must be double Dutch .

 

It's a line from a funny movie. Irony...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ882QYzr-M

 

I believe its known as "Darwin, Northern Territories"

(since some here don't recognize sarcasm, I'll preface this by saying I'm part Aussie and eligible for citizenship)

 

HA...I get it now. ..blonde... "There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.".
Geeze, apologized and everthing. Maybe you should have posted in green there.

 

I can recognize irony gentlemen, but don't expect me to know every foreign show from the 70s by heart though . (It's never been on Tv here). Sorry about that . I couldn't have watched it anyway , I was nuking my garden those days.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CST7w_Otz7o&list=RDQJ882QYzr-M&index=2