Three decades ago, humanity made a great discovery. And no, this wasn’t the time we discovered the wheel, nor fire. In September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps, there was a man covered in ice, waiting to be discovered. He lived between 3400 and 3100 BCE and the fact that he wasn’t the subject of a burial made him be preserved perfectly in a glacier. Meet, Ötzi, the Iceman, a man of superlatives. He is known to be the world’s oldest wet mummy. But what’s best is yet to come: All of his clothes and tools he carried with him were also unchanged over the span of the years. And this, dear readers, is what makes Ötzi so special.
61 tattoos, an arrowhead wedged in his left shoulder, and in his stomach was the wild goat he had eaten 2 hours before his death. A copper axe, a bearskin cap and waterproof shoes made from deer hide, bearskin and tree bark. Lastly, his cloak made of woven grass was discovered. These are the items that came with the full “packaging.”
Fast-forwarding 5000 years, we see remains of a human body accompanied by Vollebak‘s Indestructible Puffer. At least, this is what the company sees in the future. We land in 7019, a year in which a bunch of scientists analyzes a human body that lived in the 21st century. Over 5 millennia, our successors will dig up a body that, just like Ötzi, comes with a few surprising “presents.”
One of them is Vollebak’s jacket, which is real proof that it can stand the passage of time. According to the brand, it is made from Dyneema – the single strongest fiber known to man today. An ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene that combines extreme strength with very low weight, on a weight for weight basis Dyneema is up to 15x stronger than steel. Plus, it floats on water and it is resistant to the long-term effects of moisture, UV light, and chemicals.
Check out the “Autopsy 7019” video to find out how things unfold. The one-and-a-half-long video was directed by Chris Palmer, the same filmmaker who was behind HSBC UK’s “Together We Thrive” short movie. Both films have the same “what if…” concept. But which one is better? Let us know your thoughts by sharing them with us in the comment section below!