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Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On a warm day in April 2017, Outside Magazine writer Kyle Dickman was hiking near Yosemite National Park with his family and infant son. But in an instant, the idyllic day turned south. Kyle felt a quick whap above his ankle, looked down and saw a diamond pattern in the grass. He'd been bitten by a rattlesnake. On this special episode of Against the Odds, Kyle shares the story of the race against time to save his life, and what his brush with death taught him about life, risk, and the meaning of family.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to against the odds early in ad free right now.
0:05.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts.
0:09.0	A note to listeners.
0:11.0	This episode contains adult language and content.
0:14.0	Please be advised.
0:15.0	From wonder. From Wendry, I'm Cassie de Pekle, and this is against the odds. On this show we talk a lot about risk, big risks, like climbing a 20,000 foot
0:47.5	Himalayan peak or exploring a new frontier and smaller ones like hiking alone in a national park. But whatever
0:56.5	the size of the risk, almost everyone who enjoys getting out in nature has had a
1:01.7	moment where they sense danger. The rustling in the
1:05.0	brush, a howl in the distance, intrusive thoughts of bears or snakes or spiders.
1:11.8	Most of the time, the threat is just our imagination acting up. But sometimes, what we imagine
1:20.1	lurking in the shadows might actually be there waiting.
1:25.0	Usually you wake up and turns out it was just a nightmare.
1:29.0	The interesting thing was this time I woke up and the nightmare was real.
1:34.0	That's Outdoor Magazine contributor Kyle Dickman.
1:38.0	You might remember his voice from our series on the Granite Mountain Hot Shots,
1:42.0	which told the story of 19 Wildland
1:44.9	firefighters who lost their lives in Arizona in 2013. Kyle had been a hot shot
1:51.4	himself and wrote a book about the tragedy.
1:54.0	Today, Kyle returns to the show to tell another story, his own.
2:00.0	Not about fighting fires, but instead about what happened when he took his infant son, Bridger for a hike near Yosemite
2:09.6	and almost didn't make it out alive.
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