Arctic Adventure: Showdown on the Tundra

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Teenager Alex Messenger journeys into remotest Canada in search of true adventure. He never imagines he’ll end up fighting for his life at the edge of the Arctic Circle. Cornered by a fearsome, four-legged beast, Alex must do his utmost to stay calm and remember his training. But even if he survives this encounter, how on earth will he and his friends make it out of the wilderness? For more on Alex’s story, read The Twenty-Ninth Day. A Noiser production, written by Danny Marshall. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.0	It's July 31st, 2005 in Nunavut, Northern Canada, 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
0:36.7	It's a bright clear evening. The light from the summer sun still high in the sky dances on the surface of Princess Mary Lake. This vast body of water is surrounded in every
0:46.9	direction by mile upon mile of exposed rock and wind-swept scrub, punctuated by the occasional pocket of slanted pines, the last hangars on.
0:57.0	It's a landscape shaped by the force of arctic winds.
1:02.0	Hundreds of miles from civilization,
1:05.0	it's also the perfect place for a group of young adventurers to explore.
1:11.0	17-year-old Alex Messenger scrambles up a steep screeze slope to get a better view.
1:17.0	Taking a breath, he glances back at the camp below.
1:20.0	He can make out the figures of his friends and their tents and canoes pulled up on shore.
1:25.0	Someone's got a fire going.
1:27.0	For the past four weeks, they've paddled their way through the territory's twisting river systems,
1:34.0	navigating frothing whitewater rapids, striking further and further into this frozen
1:38.9	wilderness.
1:42.3	As he reaches the summit, Alex braces himself against another icy blast.
1:49.6	At the top it just flattened out to these rolling granite domes. There was just a little bit of
1:55.0	a little bit of grass, but it was this very lunar landscape,
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