Lou Bodenhemier

Lou Bodenhemier

Lou Bodenhemier

Lou Bodenhemier holds an MA in History from the University of Limerick and a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. He’s interested in maritime and disaster history as well as criminal history, and his dissertation focused on the werewolf trials of early modern Europe. At the present moment he can most likely be found perusing records of shipboard crime and punishment during the Age of Sail, or failing that, writing historical fiction horror stories. He lives in Dublin and hates the sun.

mountain man with hands on his hips

Weekend Warm-Up: Great Days in the Rockies

Great Days in the Rockies is a short film...
A black-roofed structure in the jungle, mountains in the distance

An Explorer’s Guide to the 10 Largest Islands in the World. #6: Sumatra

In this series, we consider the 10 largest islands...
a young man climbing

Weekend Warm-Up: World’s Hardest Trad Climb

Drifter's Escape: The World's Hardest Trad Climb documents climber...
View from a small sailing vessel showing the bow and a bay

Weekend Warm-Up: The Far Side of the World

The Far Side of the World is a full-length...
cyclist on paved desert road

Weekend Warm-Up: Cycling the World

In this short documentary, McKenzie Barney brings the viewer along...
aerial of a river amid forest

Weekend Warm-Up: Canoeing Australia’s Most Contested River

In Beau Miles' recent documentary, Canoeing Australia's Most Contested...
a forest on a mesa

Weekend Warm-Up: The Lost Forest

This short documentary follows a team of scientists and...
An adult herring gull screeching

Squawk This Way: Competitive Seagull Screechers Vie to Imitate Loud, Irritating Bird

If you've ever seen an ungainly off-white ocean bird...
cyclist in desert

Weekend Warm-Up: Far Enough

In Far Enough, athlete Jean Rouaux cycles from his home...

Weekend Warm-Up: The Pine Hunters

This short documentary follows two ecologists as they film...
A blue bay meeting dense jungle

How a Con Man Stranded 300 Italians on a Pacific Island

In the summer of 1880, dozens of impoverished families...
a man on the rigging of a small boat

Weekend Warm-Up: The Voyage of the Sarimanok

In 1986, Robert Hobman set out in a small...
A man in a tent drawing a plan.

Weekend Warm-Up: The Legacy Will Steger Built

As Will Steger sets out on another Arctic expedition...
Two people on a snowy slope

Weekend Warm-Up: A Mongolian Ski Journey

The film opens as five skiers travel for 150...
a woman climbing

Weekend Warm-Up: Persistence

"Most nights I wake up and think, what the...
biking in africa

Weekend Warm-Up: Alone Across Gola

Alone Across Gola documents Jude Kriwald's bicycle journey across West...

Why Writers Shouldn’t Try to Be Farmers: A Brief History of Failed Utopias

As soon as we started leaving the farm for...
a man in snowy mountains

Weekend Warm-Up: The Place Where I Am

The Place Where I Am follows passionate trad climber...
A man climbing a large cliff over the sea

Weekend Warm-Up: The Great Arch

A striking natural formation in a seacliff on Scotland's...
Mountain with flare going off

Weekend Warm-Up: K2 Chasing Shadows

K2 Chasing Shadows follows Benjamin Vedrines' 2024 attempt to...
A sleeper shark

Shark Found in Antarctic for First Time Ever

University of Western Australia researchers have captured the first...
A mountainous, snowy island

The Untold Survival Story of the 15th-Century Venetians Shipwrecked on an Arctic Island

Pietro Querini sailed from Crete in 1431, bound for...
A man being swept away in a wave of loose snow

Weekend Warm-Up: One Bad Decision

Uploaded as One Bad Decision, Then The Avalanche Hit,...
A map of the Arctic with NE passage drawn

Interactive Map Shows Four Centuries of Arctic Exploration

A new project from a glacial scientist and historical...

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