272: Bringing the Mountain to the Movies ft. Andrew Kightlinger.

National Park After Dark

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Director Andrew Kightlinger joins NPAD to give us all a glimpse into the making of the much anticipated film - Lost on a Mountain in Maine. From his upbringing in Madagascar to his working interview on Katahdin, Andrew shares how he became involved with Donn Fendler’s story and how proud he was to bring one of Maine’s legacies to the big screen.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to National Park After Dark, the very first episode of the year
0:05.0	2025. Here we are. I can't even fathom that. 2025. Yeah. Crazy. It's been a wild ride for us,
0:15.0	because this month will mark our fourth birthday.
0:21.9	We're four.
0:23.4	We're four years old.
0:23.8	Yeah.
0:28.0	Our four year anniversary birthday is coming up towards the end of the month.
0:31.1	We have a fun episode planned to celebrate that. But today is a interview episode and it's with someone really cool because it ties into an episode that I actually
0:39.1	covered earlier this year when I was still in Colorado, so I wasn't a mainer yet, but now I am.
0:47.1	And the story that I covered was about Don Fendler and his survival story on Mount Katodin,
0:52.8	which in the state of Maine and in New England
0:55.4	in general is just kind of like part of the stitched into the local legend of this region.
1:02.8	Like everyone knows this story and a lot of children are actually taught it in school.
1:07.5	Yeah, it's very, very popular in it. It's cool that you covered it because just being from
1:12.7	New England, it's like, wow, that's so close to here. It's such a popular story. It's so well known.
1:19.3	And yeah, it was and now it's a movie. Yeah, and now it's a movie. So that episode back when I
1:25.7	covered it was highly, highly requested for us to cover on the show.
1:30.3	So that's why I chose to do so. And I'm glad I did because through the research and just we'll
1:35.2	give a brief synopsis, but if you want to listen to the episode in its entirety, it is episode
1:40.6	210 and I titled it The Lost Boy. And in it, I tell the story of Don Fendler's survival on Mount Kittodin.
1:48.5	After becoming separated from his hiking party on Mount Katodin in July of 1939,
1:53.6	12-year-old Don Frenler survived alone for nine days,
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