Anyone searching for an animal picture with heart and soul, well, you've just found one. This story is based on the Japanese expedition in 1958. The weather conditions then became so severe it forced the scientific team to resort to choices which were nothing short of barbaric. In that scenario, men who had come to depend on their chief mode of transportation and protection, reduced the sacred status of their transport dogs into flotsam. The second sin any expeditionary group can do and would certainly not even dream of doing to humans is to abandon them to the elements. This tragic story does precisely that. The expedition, (which include Paul Walker as Jerry Shepard, Jason Biggs as Charlie Cooper and Moon Bloodgood as Katie) is of a scientist Dr. David McClaren, (Bruce Greenwood) who journeys to the Artic to search out, find and recover a rare meteorite. The task is accomplished, but then the Arctic winter develops into a blizzard and becomes a life and death situation which forces the team to abandon their trusted and beloved dogs to survive on their own. What transpires is nothing short of miraculous. The dogs must not only endure the brutal and unforgiving weather, but to encounter and survive all the hostile elements which nature and her fury will hurl at them. As a result, this becomes a touching film for anyone wishing to enjoy the powerful and emotional ties between man and animal. ****
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