A Deadly Rescue on Mount Rainier

Out Alive from Backpacker

Louisa Albanese

Places & Travel, Sports, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Out Alive, we share a harrowing tale of survival, resilience, and tragedy on Mount Rainier. Four climbers set out to conquer the mountain, only to face disaster on their descent when a dramatic fall results in catastrophic injuries, leaving them stranded on its icy slopes.

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0:55.1	We've seen six grizzlies on the very first day of the trip and their tracks would continue
1:04.2	to appear outside our camp each morning.
1:08.0	I was in the wild, maybe for the first time really, and our guides, having decades of
1:14.4	experience shepherding others down those untamed rivers and mountains, would regale us with
1:20.8	stories as we set up our camp and make dinner.
1:24.8	Listening to them and seeing the riveted faces of my campmates made me wonder how I could
1:31.0	replicate that experience.
1:33.4	It gave me the idea for a podcast, this podcast, where we would get to hear survival stories
1:40.1	from the people who really lived them.
1:43.6	I knew nothing about podcasting or audio.
1:46.9	I just sensed that there were so many stories that could bring us all together around the
1:51.6	proverbial campfire.
1:53.8	Just forward four years, an out-of-life has published 49 survival stories for millions
1:59.4	of listeners.
2:01.1	We've listened together with reverence to survivors share their hardest moments, from
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