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Minnesota Wildlife Officer Airlifted After Falling 20 Feet While Removing an Illegal Tree Stand

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I Raised 3 Kids Alone in the Wilderness. Surviving Bear and Moose Attacks Was (Almost) Routine

By Olive A. Fredrickson

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I Nearly Died in the Woods Because I Broke the Cardinal Rule of Getting Lost

By Robert Fisher, as told to Ben East

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The Miraculous Story of How an Old, Lost Hunter Was Rescued from the Woods, Against All Odds

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

as told to Jim Rearden, By Frank Glaser

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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

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

By Andrew McKean

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

By Nick Fasciano

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I Was Lost for 10 Terrible Days in the Ontario Wilderness

By Elwyn "Bud" Myers

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I Should Have Died in a Floatplane Crash

By Casey West, As told to Dac Collins

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

By Olive A. Fredrickson

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

By Eric Collier

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

By Angus Franklin MacIver

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

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

By Alex Robinson

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

By Scott Haugen

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

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

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

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

By Alex Robinson

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

By Cassidy Caron, as told to Scott Einsmann

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

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

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Search for Missing Fishing Influencer Ends 4 Days After Capsized Skiff Found Drifting Off Baja Coast

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The Legend of Frank Glaser, the Toughest Woodsman Alaska Has Ever Seen

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Oregon National Guard Deployed as Search for Missing Deer Hunter Enters Third Day

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‘Tragically Unlucky.’ The Real Story of What Happened to the Elk Hunters Who Disappeared in Colorado’s Wilderness

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This One Stupid Decision Nearly Cost Me My Life on a Maine Deer Hunt

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The Tlingit Legend of the Kóoshdaa Káa

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Do Bears Hold Grudges? The Legendary Tale of a Wounded Alaskan Grizzly

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Watch: Police Rescue Duck Hunter Who Got Stuck in a Quicksand-Like ‘Honey Pot’

By Natalie Krebs

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This Duck Hunt Almost Killed Me. That’s Why I’ll Never Hunt Alone Again

By H.A. Shanklin

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Lightning Strike Killed the Two Missing Elk Hunters in Colorado, Coroner Says

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Lost, Hypothermic Hunter Rescued in Colorado Did These ‘Ingenious’ Things, According to the Crew That Found Him

By Natalie Krebs

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I’ll Always Remember the Day I Went Round for Round With a Grizzly

By Don Vitto, as told to Jim Zumbo

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My Boy Scout Troop Rescued a 78-Year-Old Backpacker (and Former Scoutmaster) Lost in the California Wilderness

By Kris Millgate

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I Hiked Too Far While Hunting Early-Season Deer and Lost My Mind from Heat Stroke

By George H. Gibson

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We Tracked Down a Killer Grizzly — and It Almost Ended in Tragedy

By Gordon D. Gosling

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Missing Man Found in Canadian Wilderness After Scrawling ‘HELP’ on Makeshift Rock Shelter

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After Rolling His UTV, This Man Crawled 11 Hours Through the Mountains with Only His Dog to Guide Him

By Kris Millgate

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If This Search and Rescue Team Can’t Find You, No One Can

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I Faced Off with a Grizzly Alone, and in the Middle of Nowhere

By Alann B. Steen

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My Brother and I Are Expert Paddlers. We Nearly Drowned Anyway

By Thomas E. Appel

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I Fell in a Hole While Packing Out My Buck in a Storm. This Old SOS Trick Saved Me

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A Dozen Times I Should Have Died While Hunting and Fishing

By Charles Elliott

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This Happened to Me: I Severed My Artery While Quartering an Elk and Almost Bled Out on the Mountain

Henry Rauschenbach, as told to Alice Jones Webb

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I Was Lost for 6 Days with No Food or Fire in the Idaho Backcountry

By Warren Garde

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Alaska Bush Pilot Community Rallies to Find, Rescue Family Whose Plane Crash-Landed on Frozen Lake

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Watch a Kayak Fisherman Save Two Dogs from Drowning in an Icy River

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I Canoed the Northwest Passage Solo. The Arctic Nearly Killed Me — Twice

By Tony Dauksza

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Podcast: I Nearly Died on a Duck Hunt

By Alex Robinson

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I Didn’t Trust My Sled Dog. My Poor Judgement Nearly Killed Us All

By Angus Franklin MacIver

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My Fishing Buddies and I Got Trapped on an Ice Floe. One of Us Didn’t Make It

By Robert E. Houle

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A Beginner’s Guide to Bushcraft

By Cameron Evans

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How Long Can You Survive Without Food?

By Christine Peterson

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Outdoor Life Launches New Audio Book: The Wildest Survival Stories of All Time

By Alex Robinson

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My Wife and I Tried to Walk Home in an Arctic Storm. We Almost Died

By Scott Haugen

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Stranded Hunters Survive Freezing Night on the Water by Building a Fire with Duck Decoys in Their Cooler

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How a Chance Encounter with Another Hunter Saved My Life

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Two Men Found Dead of Exposure in Washington’s Cascade Range Were Hunting For Sasquatch, Officials Say

By Laura Lancaster

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It Should’ve Been the Best Mallard Hunt of Our Lives. Instead, We Almost Died

By James D. Nunnally

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I Nearly Froze to Death When Our Argo Sank in the Middle of an Arctic River

By Scott Haugen

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The Bush Plane Engine Died Mid-Flight — and Other Close Calls While Flying the Alaskan Wilderness

By Scott Haugen