<p>On a 600 mile canoe trip, Alex Messenger encounters a grizzly while hiking alone on the Canadian tundra. </p>

Stranded on Mt. Rainier

Raging rivers, hungry bears, huge avalanches—no matter how prepared you are, a walk in the woods can go from innocent to disastrous in the blink of an eye. Out Alive is a podcast series about real people who survived the unsurvivable. Each survivor takes you through what happened, from the packing mistakes to the missed signals to the plain bad luck, while experts and witnesses weigh in on how things went wrong.