Today's episode originally aired back in 2019, but it stayed one of our favorite episodes

filled with heartbreak, resilience, and hope.

This episode does contain adult content and may not be suitable for all listeners.

The stakes never get higher than life and death, and those are the stakes on every story

we tell on this show.

A person who threw a combination of grit, luck, and skill overcomes extreme adversity.

They were going to die, except then they did something impossible, extraordinary.

They changed the ending.

I think that on some level, we all fear death or at least dying, but then some people have the,

I don't know if it's courage or stubbornness or arrogance or what it is to say not yet.

And so we get to test ourselves against their example, to make plans for the same thing ever

happened to us. How would we escape? How would I beat death?

I made a decision to survive in that survival mode. The idea of dying wasn't in my head.

I knew immediately it was the worst case scenario. I was in a fight for my life situation.

Whenever you walk out on these trails, you're in their house.

I'm Louisa Albinese, and you're listening to Out-Alive by Backpacker.

In each episode of this podcast, we'll bring you real stories of real people who survived the

unsurvivable. I saw the ropes sift through the rappel ring, and I couldn't do anything.

Learn what went wrong, what went right, and how you can escape if the worst case scenario happens to you.

There is no way we would find anybody alive.

When I entered kindergarten in 1958, my brother, Louis, was entering college as a freshman.

And according to our dear mother, he was a legend. And when you grow up with a brother

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