Episode 256: Crash Landing in Bear Country

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Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On July 22nd 2010, Dave Akers and Gary Nall decided to take a sight seeing trip in Gary’s small plane. What should have been a short flight before sunset turned into a fight for their lives after the plane got caught in a powerful down draft that caused them to crash almost 4,000 feet up a remote mountain side in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite their injuries, the men quickly discovered their only option was to attempt to hike off the mountain.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph.
0:01.1	I'm Alex.
0:01.7	And this is not today.
0:19.9	And we're live.
0:21.1	Hello.
0:21.9	How are you?
0:22.5	Great. How are you?
0:23.7	I'm doing good.
0:24.9	We had a little nice Saturday morning.
0:27.3	Got a workout in, got coffee.
0:29.0	It's true. When we're recording, it is a Saturday.
0:33.2	Beboop boop.
0:34.0	Be boop, boop.
0:36.1	Hey, when this episode comes out, bonus episode number 45 will also be coming out. And you know what we're talking about over there on Patreon, Project X Haran. Haran? Yes. It's a town in the Netherlands. But it's like the real Project X. We haven't recorded it yet, so you haven't heard the story, but it's insane.
0:54.9	So okay, but this is like the movie? Yes. The real story of the movie? No, it's not like the
1:00.5	story that was, you know, the movie was based off of, but it is a story that occurred kind of
1:06.2	because of the movie. Oh, how fun. Yeah. In the Netherlands? Yep. Damn, they're getting wild. They got a little crazy. Okay. So if you want to hear that story, head over to patreon.com slash not today podcast. You'll get access to that and 44 other bonus episodes and you can vote on stories you want to hear. It's a fun time. I recommend you check it out. I'm actually really interested. We have yet to record it, so I'm excited for it. Intrigued. Yeah. I'm intrigued. It'll be a good time. But today, we're talking about two men who got lost in the wilderness. We haven't talked about a story like this in a while, I feel like. Yeah, weirdly. This was kind of the lifeblood of the podcast you know yeah it's just people
1:45.1	fucking around and finding out with mother nature yeah you know yeah so where where are they
1:50.9	Alaska damn yeah Alaska like I feel the people in Alaska are just a different breed like
1:58.7	the further north you go I feel like you gotta be.
2:01.2	The hardier the people. Yeah. And then at some point you hit the Inuit, you know? Sure. They just, you know. Well, one of these guys is a transplant. He was from Texas. So he had- He moved from Texas to Alaska. Yeah. And he'd only been there for two years. and then, you know, now he found himself on a mountain side.
2:19.2	He found out.
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