FAR OUT

  • Faustino's Patagonian Retreat

    For this episode of Far Out, VICE went to Chilean Patagonia to meet Faustino Barrientos, one of Lake O'Higgins' most infamous inhabitants. Lake O'Higgins comprises a portion of the border between Chile's Aysén region and Argentina's Santa Cruz...

  • Photos of Faustino's Patagonian Retreat

    They'll make you consider becoming a hermit too.

  • Faustino's Patagonian Retreat

    Since 1965, Faustino Barrientos has lived alone on the shores the lake, in a house built from the remains of a shipwrecked fishing vessel.

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  • Faustino's Patagonian Retreat

    For this episode of Far Out, VICE went to Chilean Patagonia to meet Faustino Barrientos, one of Lake O'Higgins' most infamous inhabitants.

  • Faustino's Patagonian Retreat - Trailer

    Since 1965, Faustino Barrientos has lived alone on the shores of Chile's Lake O'Higgins, in a house built from the remains of a shipwrecked fishing vessel. The 81-year-old pastoralist is reaching the end of his life, and his self-imposed isolation is...

  • Heimo's Arctic Refuge

    Baby Balls starts to get the swing of trapping and gets a crash course on the close relationship of life and death in the arctic.

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  • Heimo's Arctic Refuge

    The dangers of living 100 miles from the nearest human contact come stalking into the Korth's yard.

  • Heimo's Arctic Refuge

    Heimo leads us across the tundra to stalk caribou and trap beaver. The hunters become the hunted.

  • Heimo's Arctic Refuge

    The VBS crew settles into daily life in the arctic, blissfully unaware that some kind of monster is stalking them from the underbrush.

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  • Heimo's Arctic Refuge

    Heimo Korth is a hunter and fur-trapper who lives with his Eskimo wife in the middle of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. That's only, oh, 100 miles from the next nearest human.

  • Heimo's Arctic Refuge - Trailer

    Heimo Korth is a hunter and fur-trapper who lives with his Eskimo wife in the middle of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. That’s only, oh, 100 miles from the next nearest human.