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every day capable hello survivalists this is the crux true survival story podcast i'm kacey mackintosh

and i'm julie hningson. And we are medical

professionals with a passion for wilderness survival. Join us as we explore real life survival

stories and the critical moments that determine their outcomes. Buckle up. Adventure awaits. Let's dive

into this week's story.

Picture this. You're on what's supposed to be a simple three-day camping trip.

You've got your electric bike, your tent, enough supplies for a weekend getaway.

You're thinking about work, about life, about the medical school applications waiting back home. And then, in an instant,

everything changes. You're falling. The world goes black. And when you wake up two hours later,

you realize you're not just lost. You're fighting for your life in one of the most unforgiving

mountain ranges in America, the Sierra Nevada. John Muir called it the range of light.

For the missing hikers who disappear here with troubling regularity, it's something else entirely.

It's a 400-mile granite fortress that stretches from California's Central Valley to the Nevada border,

with peaks soaring over 14,000 feet. It's a place where 13 snowstorms can hit you in three weeks, where temperatures plummet without warning, where a single wrong step can send you tumbling into the abyss. The scope of the problem is staggering. Across the entire National Park System in 2017 alone, there were over 3,400 search and rescue missions with 182 fatalities.

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