A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)

Re:A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WW... by grecy on Sunday August 28, 2016 @04:42PM (#12378428)

I live in the Yukon - when we are out Moose hunting in the fall we often wonder if we could survive the winter if we flipped our canoe with nothing more than we have with us.

Every time this article comes up, I have two questions I've never found a satisfactory answer to:

1. How did they light fires?

2. How did they cook and boil water? From experience pots and pans fail after much less than 40 years.

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Re:A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WW... by antisthenes on Sunday August 28, 2016 @09:11PM (#12379388)

For 1. I'd assume they kept the fire going, since the need to cook and boil food was constant.

I've read somewhere as a kid that prehistoric people who discovered fire kept it going round the clock since it was more convenient to always have a light source and warmth on demand and wood is generally plentiful enough.

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Re:A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WW... by grecy on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:10AM (#12380496)

I'm assuming that too, but man, keeping a fire going all summer would be a lot of effort!

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