Dale Sanders is a multiple Guinness World Record holder. He has lived a life of adventure, from a short stint in the circus, too competitive spear fishing, to a long career in the navy, to breaking world records on the trail and the river. We explore his secret to maintaining good health late into life. This summer he is attempted and completed setting another world record, by becoming the oldest person to paddle from source to sea on the Mississippi River at 87 years old. He already held that record when he was 80 years old, but that record had been broken by an 81 year old. Now that he's 87 he paddled the whole 2,340 miles of the Mississippi again to take that record back!. Wilderness Mindset is working together with Zak Rivers to make a documentary about this record breaking paddle. Filming started on June 14, 2022 and Dale finished September 8th. That made it an 87 day trip on the river, one day for each year he has lived.
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The making of GREYBEARD: The Man, The Myth, The Mississippi
The Making of GReybeard: Episode 1
Behind the Scenes on GREYBEARD: The Man, The Myth, The Mississippi.
Dale "Greybeard" Sanders just became the oldest person to paddle the entire Mississippi River, again! We have been following along and filming him all summer and this four-part series takes you behind the scenes of our filmmaking process during the last week of filming.
We meet Dale and the crew in New Orleans, Louisiana. A river angel feeds everyone and gives us a place to stay. Then we head further south to find Dale on the river again.
The Making of GReybeard: Episode 2
We follow Dale and the crew to the very southernmost point of Louisiana and set up base camp at the Le Matidora Inn. They'll be taking a few rest days there before making the final push and we take that time to shoot some interviews.
The Making of GReybeard: Episode 3
We spend some time with the paddler crew as they take a few rest days before their final push to salt water. Everyone enjoys some time to rest and we head south to film the sunset and look for some gators!
The Making of GReybeard: Episode 4
The day has finally arrived! Greybeard completes his 2,300 mile journey on the Mississippi River and reach salt way in the Gulf of Mexico. It's very exciting as we all load up on two boats to follow Dale and the crew out to the Gulf.
Behind the Scenes with Kyle Johnson
One of the filmmakers on this project, Kyle Johnson, made this behind the scenes video. Check out his work here, https://www.barredspiralmedia.com/
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