Xavier Rosset, 300 days alone on an island

Swiss explorer and adventurer Xavier Rosset is about to embark on a 300 day trip to live alone on a remote tropical island in the South Pacific. His adventures will be filmed and used for a 52 minute documentary.

Xavier’s only luggage will be a Swiss army knife, machete video camera and a solar panel for charging the camera. He will spend 10 months alone on an island to develop another way of life through an exciting adventure, a return to the elemental sources. Xavier will survive alone on an island without human interference and without polluting emissions.

The ambition of this documentary is to make a reflection on our lifestyle, our current system and our relationship to nature. And the most important thing is to put the dream and emotion at the heart of adventure natural.

He will find timber to build a shelter, feed on the rudimentary fishing, plants and the harvesting of rainwater to survive.

The philosophy of this adventure is quite different than the existing issues which are aimed competition and the elimination of participants through a system of testing and votes. The primary motivation of this documentary is to draw attention to our planet, on our perception of the world around us and different ways to preserve the future.

Most men have forgotten how to live with nature because we have so far arranged the world according to our needs and desires that these bases, so important, have disappeared.

THE DOCUMENTARY

This 52-minute film will trace the life of a man returning to the sources for 10 months without any human interference, learning to adapt to medium term to its new environment, feeding on wildlife, flora and the local fishing.

The documentary will be mainly a parallel relationship between man, nature and the preservation of our environment.

This documentary will be seen on screens in spring 2009.

FILMING

Filming will be done entirely by Xavier who has good experience in video production. To bring up images of qualities, he will find tips to make every single plan reporting, dynamic and growing. The camera will be recharged with a battery powered by a photovoltaic panel.

DESTINATION AND DEPARTURE DATE

Several destinations were selected for the documentary, and with advice from Cheyenne Morrison the Kingdom of Tonga was finally selected as the destination for the filming.

August 8, 2007: Xavier visited Tonga, and with advice from the Tourism department selected the island for his adventure.

Tofua Island, a volcanic island lost in the middle of the Pacific. This will be the destination of Xavier for this adventure story.

On July 8, 2007: the Government of Tonga islands in the Pacific has adopted the idea of this documentary and greatly facilitates obtaining a visa and long-term authorizations shooting.

The destination is interesting because Tonga 2 volcanic islands would lend themselves well to this experience. They are isolated, with the vegetation, terrain and no human presence.

UPDATE

May 29th 2008: This is the latest email I received from Xavier ...

hello Cheyenne,
thanks for zour mail.

My travel is very fine, I went on the island I am going to stay for 10 month. Tofua island. it is a very wild place and it exactly what I need. there is no sandy beach.. booh I don’t need it anyway... I stayed there for 3 days by walking around and drinking coconut...

Xavier Rosset
Swiss Island Adventurer
http://www.xavierrosset.com/

UPDATE! June 2, 2008: In the original post I referred to Xavier as French, and he is very importantly SWISS.

Since the post (here first) this post was republished on Mark Frauenfelder's site BoingBoing.com The story shot around the Net, and the blogosphere and within 24 hours Xavier was contacted by ABC television who wanted to feature him, and a producer from Los Angeles. In the coming days and weeks I will keep you posted about Xavier's adventures.

Remember, you heard it here, not from the fake Private Islands Blog.