In 2007, on a fateful day in the remote Wisconsin woods, an independent logger named Gary Edinger severed his left leg while felling a tree. Twenty miles from help, and in temperatures forty degrees below zero, Gary summoned remarkable willpower and crawled to his truck, then drove to safety. Gary’s struggle for survival, however, didn’t begin on that frigid day in the hardwoods. His whole life has been forged from adversity.

WILL TO LIVE: THE GARY EDINGER STORY provides a glimpse of a unique perspective gained by cheating death and chasing the call of lifelong adventure as only Gary can.

Director Bio

Adam Foss grew up in the foothills of the Alberta Rockies where from age 14, he became deeply rooted in mountain bowhunting. His passion for wild places has led him to develop a career as a professional photographer and filmmaker. The focus of Adam’s work over the years has been to redefine the way we tell stories around hunting and to push the boundaries of the typical hunting narrative into uncharted territory. He works with his wife Frankie Foss making films from their Kelowna-based company, Foss Media.