Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,

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I'll see you on the other side.

I was tracking this porcupine every day.

And I couldn't find him and I finally decided to crawl down into the porcupine den.

It was during a blizzard.

And I knew it was very risky because if I ran into any problems, nobody would be able to come to help me for days until the storm passed.

That's Cali Russell. In 2019, Cali was left to fend for herself in the middle of the Arctic

as a contestant on the survivalist show alone.

Cali was starving and was in search of food anywhere she could find it.

I chose to climb down and I was able to harvest this porcupine.

And I was so happy hiking back to my shelter.

And I thought, I'm going to get snowed in, this big storm's rolling in, but I'm just

going to sit in my shelter and eat this porcupine.

It's going to be the best.

I'm going to have a party, a whole porcupine party. Cali's isolation fed her desperation.

Her emotions became pure, simple, and loud.

She chose her plan, and with a protein-rich dinner in hand she was on

cloud nine. But in the blink of an eye, Kali went from elated to painfully

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