This season of Out Alive is brought to you by Garman.

Stay tuned to the end of the show where you'll hear this bonus survival story.

I couldn't walk more than 10 steps without collapsing.

I was in a really bad spot because I had no cell service.

I know it's a life-threatening condition,

and I don't think I would have made it through the night

in the condition I was in.

In all the accidents we've examined on this podcast there's one thing they all have in common.

Trauma changes people. Bones heal, wounds clothes but the scar tissue runs deeper than what shows up on the body. Life

goes on but not in the same way it used to.

That's the nature of trauma, and for most,

it sits like a lead weight.

But today's story is different.

Today's story is about courage and how one man set out to prove that trauma doesn't have to wreck us.

In some ways it can make you stronger.

I made a decision to survive.

When you're 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 Albany's and you're listening to Out Alive by Backpacker.

In each episode of this podcast will bring you real stories of real people who survived the

unservivable.

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