Jan baalsrud waked blind around cabin

Snow blindness, frostbite, gangrene, and amputation without any surgical tools.

Jan baalsrud waked blind around cabin

These are all things that can kill a person, and adding in WWII as well would be a recipe for disaster.

But this is exactly what Jan Baalsrud faced, and he came out of it alive, albeit not unscathed.

Jan Baalsrud was born in Kristiania in 1917 and trained to be an instrument-maker like his father.

When his home country was invaded by the Germans in 1940, he escaped only to make his way back there three years later as a saboteur.

During his years away, he had joined the Norwegian Company Linge. The company was a group of young Norwegians who worked on stealth missions to sabotage the German presence in their country.

It was with this company that he was sent on a mission which would start his rise as a folk hero.

In 1943, Baalsrud, along with three other commandos and a boat crew of eight, was sent to Bardufo