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A color illustration of a wolf attacking a grizzly over a caribou carcass.

Wilderness Survival

I Spent 40 Years Living with Wolves. They Still Manage to Surprise Me

as told to Jim Rearden, By Frank Glaser

SAR personnel training in the Grand Canyon.

Wilderness Survival

Watch: Epic Rescue Footage Shows Hiker Dangling from a Helicopter Over the Grand Canyon

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It Took Rescuers Days to Find Us in a Remote Canyon. It Took Even Longer to Figure Out How to Get Us Out

By Keith E. Oveson

A portrait of a smiling woman with a big leather hat beside a cactus against a blue sky

Wilderness Survival

This Survival Instructor Wants You to Know the Wilderness Isn’t Out to Get You

By Andrew McKean

Thick trees in the fog

Wilderness Survival

A Lost Kid Wandered into My Camp. It’s a Miracle He Found It

By Nick Fasciano

An illustration of two hunters waving at a plane.

Wilderness Survival

I Was Lost for 10 Terrible Days in the Ontario Wilderness

By Elwyn "Bud" Myers

An illustration of two men escaping from a crashed plane as the pilot remains strapped in.

Wilderness Survival

I Should Have Died in a Floatplane Crash

By Casey West, As told to Dac Collins

old magazine illustration of moose and canoe

Wilderness Survival

After My Husband Died, I Learned to Homestead Solo and Feed Our 3 Kids. Here’s How We Survived

By Olive A. Fredrickson

An illustration of a guide creeping along a rock.

Wilderness Survival

Is It a Guide’s Job to Risk His Life for a Client?

By Eric Collier

An illustration from the Outdoor Life story Rising Terror, which shows ice water flooding a cabin.

Wilderness Survival

My Wife and I Escaped Our Flooding Cabin — Then Nearly Froze to Death in the Yard

By Angus Franklin MacIver

A college student who rescued a man from a hole in the ice.

Wilderness Survival

‘It’s a Miracle.’ College Student Rescues Older Ice Fisherman Who Fell in a Lake, Survived for 3 Hours

Wilderness Survival

Helicopter Video Shows Officers Rescuing Duck Hunters Trapped in a Frozen River

By Alex Robinson

Wilderness Survival

A Polar Bear Tried to Eat My Neighbor — and Other Close Calls With Nanuq in Alaska’s High Arctic

By Scott Haugen

yukon woods in the winter

Wilderness Survival

The Unsolved Mysteries of Trapper and Hunter Deaths Still Haunt the Yukon Wilderness Today

Three Florida fishermen with a big red snapper.

Wilderness Survival

Search Suspended for Missing Florida Fishermen Whose Boat Was Found Drifting in the Gulf

Wilderness Survival

I Became Trapped on an Ice Sheet in Lake Michigan — and Survived Against All Odds

tyler freel hunt

Wilderness Survival

Podcast: Our Senior Staff Writer Nearly Died on a Backcountry Hunt. Here’s What We’ve Learned from the Experience

By Alex Robinson

an illustration of a sheep hunter falling down a slope

Wilderness Survival

This Happened to Me: I Almost Froze to Death on a Solo Bighorn Hunt

By Cassidy Caron, as told to Scott Einsmann

Wilderness Survival

The Mysterious “Little People” of Northwest Alaska Are Just One Example of the Supernatural in Arctic Wilderness

An illustration of two figures crossing an icy channel to reach a cabin

Wilderness Survival

Five Men Met Up for a Deer Hunt. Only Three of Us Survived