Welcome to this special edition of Out-A-Live by Backpacker.

In case you missed it, Backpacker Magazine has a new parent company called Outside Ink,

which is also home to a number of adventure and outdoor sports titles, like Climbing

Magazine, Skie, Yoga Journal, Women's Trail Running, Velo News, and of course Outside Magazine.

Having part of this powerhouse gives us the ability to collaborate on all kinds of projects,

including survival stories.

Since it launched in 2016, the Outside podcast has produced a string of exceptional survival

tales.

If you don't already follow the show, you're missing out.

They recently published an episode about a near-death experience that we knew would

resonate with Out-A-Live listeners, so we're bringing it to you, because we can do

that now.

It felt like it was like a second to split second of being in the air and then this crack,

and I heard my bones break before I felt the pain.

For a second, it was just sort of like, oh, you know, I've heard myself, you know, my

body is trying to immediately get up to my feet, and I couldn't.

There's a special kind of appeal to a solo adventure.

To being out on your own, away from everything and every one, unless of course something

goes wrong and you find yourself in serious trouble and all alone.

For the latest installment of our Wild Files series, we have a piece about what it's

like to be by yourself in the wilderness, badly injured, with no way to call for help,

and how one woman got through that, just barely.

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