The March Without Hunger

The March Without Hunger is a 2018 powerful and inspiring documentary, with beautiful sceneries across the Mt Mackenzie in Canada and a strong and original subject - the benefits of fasting, both on the body and the mind. It is the beautiful yet challenging personal experience of a contemporary adventurer. If you ever come across it, take the time to watch it.

In short

The March Without Hunger is the incredible but very thoughtful challenge of Florian Gomet, author, frequent traveler, hygienist and accomplished sportsman. Florian walks 360 kilometers across the Mt Mackenzie in Canada on the Canol Trail, one of the world's most remote treks, without eating. He wants to show the incredible natural abilities of the human body and turn the adventure, and the exploration, towards the infinite of the interior. Follower of minimalism, Florian leaves without real mountain equipment and walks in sandals, even barefoot: it is not unconscious but the desire to go to the basics. He takes the gamble that his vital needs can be satisfied, for the most part, without artifice or tool, by the strength of the spirit, his harmony with the body and the rigor in the preparation of the latter. Following him, the film takes us in parallel in a fascinating investigation on therapeutic fasting, in France and Germany, with experts in the field ...

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