Next day, in Whitehorse, I meet up with the rest of the group - three big guys from Manitoba, a couple of mums, some sensible teenagers.

The best of these yappers will be off on The Quest this winter - a 1, 000-mile race from Fairbanks, Alaska, across the frozen wastes down to Whitehorse.

When the film was shown in a Soho cinema to, among others, Lord Longford and Mrs. Mary Whitehouse, they did not receive it with rapture.