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Off the grid

For three long years, Ingvar walks across the strikingly diverse landscape of rural Victoria in Australia –across “a wide treeless plateau of rolling hills and swirling mist”, under “thin clouds [as they] skated across a full moon”, and through “remnants of rainforest and dappled light”. He perceives himself to be a severely flawed man. Stops are brief as “to

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