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.

  • Goodbye for Now

  • A Rescue Gone Wrong

  • The Toll of SAR

  • Vertical Peril

  • How to Save a Life

  • In Death's Wake, He Decided to Survive

  • Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant on Being Chased by an Elephant and Why She’ll Take Her Chances with Bears

  • Fallen Into An Ice Cave

  • Are the Animals Sick of Us?

  • Stabbed by a Trekking Pole

  • Why Extreme Heat is Nature's Stealthiest Killer

  • Hit by Rockfall Deep in a Cave

  • Liquid Gold or Fool's Errand? Should You Drink Pee to Stay Alive?

  • A Deadly Rescue on Mount Rainier

  • Pack Like Your Life Depends On It

  • Eric Larsen on Surviving Cancer and Polar Travel

  • Skier Rescues Stranger From a Tree Well

  • Four Nights Lost in the Cold

  • Signal Fire Strategies: Dos and Don'ts for Survival

  • Battling the Brain: A Neurological Illness Backcountry Skiing

  • Survival Short: Unleashing the Secrets of Search and Rescue (SAR) Dog Training

  • A Bystander Saves a BASE Jumper's Life

  • The Bike Crash That Helped Her Find Her Way

  • I Fought Off a Grizzly

  • A 13-Year-Old Saves His Dad’s Life

  • Lost in Plain Sight

  • A Deadly Disaster at Mt. Everest Basecamp

  • Impaled by a Tree Branch

  • Paralyzed by a Scorpion

  • They Fell Nearly 1000 Feet

  • Attacked by an Alligator

  • High Alpine Amnesia

  • The Thai Cave Rescue

  • A Rabid Animal Attacked

  • Finding Life on the Edge of Death

  • Miracle on Mt. Hood Part 2

  • Miracle on Mt. Hood Part 1

  • Their Plane Went Down in the Sea

  • Alone and Injured in the Wild

  • A Snowy Second Chance

  • Broken & Alone

  • From Desert Paradise to Death Trap

  • We Fell Down the Mountain

  • Arctic Nightmare: Mauled by a Polar Bear

  • SAR's Secret Weapon: An Ultra-Running Volunteer

  • The Mountains Called, I Shouldn't Have Listened

  • At the Heart of the Matter

  • Tragedy on the Appalachian Trail Part 2

  • Tragedy on the Appalachian Trail Part 1

  • Mystery on the Mountain

  • Buried in a Rockslide

  • Stranded on Mt. Rainier

  • The Twenty-Ninth Day

  • Injured on an Ice Ledge

  • Trapped in Quicksand

  • The Science of Survival

  • Disaster on Mt. Rainier Part 2

  • Disaster on Mt. Rainier Part 1

  • Alone with a Compound Fracture

  • Bit by a Rattlesnake

  • Mauled by a Grizzly

  • Stranded on a Ledge

  • Buried In An Avalanche

  • BACKPACKER Out Alive Trailer

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