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Real Survival Stories

Car Stuck Off-Road: Just Like the Movies… (Repeat)

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, another epic story from the Real Survival Stories archive. We’ll be back as normal, every week, after a short break.   A festive family outing takes one wrong turn… literally. In 2016, the Kleins drive out towards the Grand Canyon. But in the height of winter, just before Christmas, the snowy roads are deserted and the route is unclear. A small slice of misfortune sends their vacation into a tailspin. As mother Karen heads off alone to find help, she has no idea how close she’ll come to never seeing her family again…   A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. Written by Joe Viner.   For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+.  Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or 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 support@noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's 7am on December the 23rd, 2016.

0:39.3

In Kaibab National Forest, Arizona. It's the morning after a blizzard, and the landscape is buried beneath 8 inches of snow.

0:45.3

The boughs of the evergreen slump beneath heavy drifts.

0:50.3

Here and there, saplings peek through the blanket of white.

1:03.3

Running through this immense forest is a long serpentine road, a highway, which leads to one of the most famous sites on earth, the Grand Canyon.

1:13.6

Most of the year, traffic hums along its twin lanes, faring tourists to and fro from the iconic attraction. But not today.

1:15.6

Today, the road is closed for the winter.

1:18.6

Repeated severe snowstorms have made it impassable, and visitors are encouraged to seek alternate routes.

1:25.6

As a result, this ordinarily busy highway is deserted and unplowed.

1:32.3

There isn't a tourist for miles around, except one. In a clearing, curled, shivering beneath a pile of spruce branches,

1:42.7

his 46-year-old Karen Klein.

1:45.0

Yesterday, everything started out so normal.

1:49.0

She was safe and happy with her family.

1:52.0

Now she's deep in the forest, alone, half-frozen, and in desperate need of help.

1:58.0

I was exhausted. You know, I was hungry, I was tired, I was cold.

2:02.4

My feet, I couldn't feel my feet,

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