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If you can deal wih maybe 20 people, a rafting trip on the Tamur in Nepal is the closest I have come to absolutely "no one else here". No wifi. No electricity. A couple of nights with only the group and a large bonfire.

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I can avoid social interaction with good connectivity and a thousand people around, or with only a few, but ten or twenty people (and nothing to distract me or them from having to talk!) seems like it would make that impossible without actually being antisocial...

Every few years my uncle takes a fishing trip in Alaska. He and two or three others are dropped off by plane and raft down a river for a week. Once a day the plane flies overhead to check up on them and at the end of the week picks them up. Other than that they never see another person.

I'm curious - wouldn't it be cheaper to check in with a sat phone daily, rather than having a bush pilot do a flyover?

I would assume they don't want to carry a satellite phone as that would give them a connection to that which they are intentionally trying to get away from.

perhaps the pilot doesn't have to divert much from their regular route to check in. Do they usually fly daily?

Dealing with twenty people doesn't sound like solitude.

Plenty of places in the world you can get in a car, drive out somewhere, and be completely alone.

Anyone else could drive up there as well. I know what you are saying as I have spent plenty of time "completey alone" in mountains in Europe. But to me the type of remoteness we got there, knowing that its actually going to be quite an effort for other people to get there is somewhat special.

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