Affirming the arctic outdoors: reading norrland ranger memoirs of becoming through outdoor training

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Figure 1. Wading exercise, unknown creator, Lapplands Jägare (Kiruna: Malmfältens Grafiska AB, 1968), 14.

Figure 2. Cold bath, unknown creator, Lapplands Jägare (Kiruna: Malmfältens Grafiska AB, 1991), 19.

Figure 3. Climbing Kebnekaise, Lundquist, Björn, Lapplands Jägare (Kiruna: Malmfältens Grafiska AB 1995), cover page.

Figure 4. On the top of the mountain, unknown creator, Lapplands Jägare (Kiruna: Malmfältens Grafiska AB 1995), no pagination.

Figure 5. Group photo posing as warriors framed by an Arctic valley. In this photo, two women, centre and low right, are visible for the first and only time in the material, unknown creator, Blå Dragonen (Arvidsjaur: Kamratföreningen Blå Dragoner 2020), 5.

Figure 6. ‘Far behind the enemy lines, without contact with his own [troops], the army ranger must fight his tough fight alone. Despite this, there is no place for desperados in his rank. The ranger units are the corps of the strong characters’ (quote from Vår Armé (1959), unknown creator, Lapplands Jägare (Kiruna: Malmfältens Grafiska AB, 1993), 66.

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