Join The Explorers Club and renowned adventurer and climate scientist, Roman Dial, for a special screening of Arctic Alchemy – covering a research expedition in the Alaska Arctic where Roman reckons with the power of wilderness to both break us and bring us alive.
“Arctic Alchemy” follows renowned Alaskan adventurer and climate scientist Roman Dial and his team on a 112-mile research expedition above the Arctic Circle. Traveling by packraft and foot through Alaska’s mighty Brooks Range, their goal is to find the source of a mysterious phenomenon poisoning watersheds in the Arctic. Along the journey, Roman reckons with fatherhood, personal tragedy, and the power of wilderness to both break us and bring us fully alive.
Through expansive aerial cinematography, archival photography, and rare access to Roman’s field expeditions, the film provides a window into a lifetime of discovery and legendary backcountry pursuits. As the Alaskan Arctic rapidly changes, Roman seeks to pass the torch to his students, in hopes that they carry on his unique style of expeditionary climate research. The documentary explores the power of one of the planet’s last great expanses and the wild alchemy of transforming grief into love.
This in-person screening at the Explorers Club Headquarters will include an audience Q&A.
RESERVATIONS
This will be an in-person lecture at Explorers Club Headquarters.
In-person tickets are $20 for Members, and $35 for the General Public.
Check-in will begin at 6:00 pm, with a beer and wine reception from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Roman Dial
Roman Dial, Ph.D. is a mathematician, biologist and adventurer. Over the last 45 years, Roman has spent over 550 days in the Brooks Range travelling more than 7000 miles by foot and packraft. Dial has written two books, Packrafting! An Introduction and How-to Guide and The Adventurer’s Son. He and his wife Peggy have an adult daughter Jazz. All three live in Anchorage, Alaska where he retired as a professor after a 32-year career at Alaska Pacific University.
Colin Arisman
Colin is a homesteader, harvester and documentary director, who lives with his wife and creative partner Elsa in Alaska. His visual storytelling documents human connections to the natural world, with a focus on outdoor recreation, ecology, and conservation. Colin’s films have received accolades including “Best Short Film” at Banff Mountain Film Festival and numerous Vimeo Staff Picks. He is the founder of Wild Confluence Media, a documentary production company that amplifies grassroots activism through impact storytelling.
Zeppelin Zeerip
Film director. Conservationist. Pot belly pig wrangler. Geodesic dome off-grid livin’ but don’t dare call him a hippie. Zeppelin would prefer to be in the mountains riding his snowboard or chasing elk, and though he prides himself on a Midwest work ethic, he spends more time behind a computer than with a shovel in his hand. He’ll tell you nothing scares him but will still walk backwards up the stairs if the lights are turned off in the basement. He claims to be relaxed, yet is perpetually anxious about the state of the world and makes films in an effort to contribute something to the conversation.
