Originally Posted by flags

Have you ever heard of a guy named Dick Proenneke? He lived off the grid in AK for quite a while and hand built a cabin etc... and even he couldn't do it without some outside support. He had supplies flown in a couple times a year. He filmed a lot of his time up there and the films are still available. See what he did to make a cabin and live there and ask yourself if you could do the same at 70+ years of age? Remember when he started he was in his early 50s and he had been a master builder for the Navy's Seabees so he was pretty skilled at building things. Are you?

Not to burst your bubble but the odds of you surviving way up high at 70+ years of age are slim at best. Most likely you wouldn't last a year. Reality can suck but that doesn't make it any less reality.