While helping Tinny on a school essay on the classic novel, Lure of the Labrador Wild, Jake and Malachy become inspired to recreate the treacherous journey.
Of course, never having actually read the book, Jake decides at the start of the journey that the food and hunting equipment is far to heavy to carry across Labrador's interior and chooses to leave it all behind about a half hour into their trek. After days of wandering around in circles without a map and eating nothing but pea meal and hardtack, the Doyle men are forced to stew their boots in a struggle against starvation. This inevitably leads to severe frostbite - something that Jake would have known about had he hired a local guide to accompany them on their journey.
Just as Jake and Malachy are ready to take their last breath, Leslie spots the two from a Search and Rescue helicopter. While Jake ends up losing his legs to gangrene from the knees down, he is still able to show Leslie that his "manhood" is very much intact.
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