Out Alive from Backpacker

Raging rivers, hungry bears, huge avalanches—no matter how prepared you are, a walk in the woods can go from innocent to disastrous in the blink of an eye. Out Alive is a podcast series about real people who survived the unsurvivable. Each survivor takes you through what happened, from the packing mistakes to the missed signals to the plain bad luck, while experts and witnesses weigh in on how things went wrong.

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1
Goodbye for Now
1 min
2
A Rescue Gone Wrong
21 min
3
The Toll of SAR
25 min
4
Vertical Peril
12 min
5
How to Save a Life
23 min
6
In Death's Wake, He Decided to Survive
26 min
7
Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant on Being Chased by an Elepha...
15 min
8
Fallen Into An Ice Cave
22 min
9
Are the Animals Sick of Us?
13 min
10
Stabbed by a Trekking Pole
31 min
11
Why Extreme Heat is Nature's Stealthiest Killer
10 min
12
Hit by Rockfall Deep in a Cave
28 min
13
Liquid Gold or Fool's Errand? Should You Drink ...
11 min
14
A Deadly Rescue on Mount Rainier
51 min
15
Pack Like Your Life Depends On It
10 min
16
Eric Larsen on Surviving Cancer and Polar Travel
33 min
17
Skier Rescues Stranger From a Tree Well
13 min
18
Four Nights Lost in the Cold
36 min
19
Signal Fire Strategies: Dos and Don'ts for Surv...
13 min
20
Battling the Brain: A Neurological Illness Back...
24 min
21
Survival Short: Unleashing the Secrets of Searc...
14 min
22
A Bystander Saves a BASE Jumper's Life
33 min
23
The Bike Crash That Helped Her Find Her Way
10 min
24
I Fought Off a Grizzly
46 min
25
Lost in Plain Sight
43 min