Brutal. Reading Hatchet, I’d have imagined that being stranded alone in the wilderness would be the most terrible scenario. But hanging onto life and watching your family die of starvation might far be worse.
I remember there was a sequel but didn't know it was a what if, I thought he just had really bad luck, or it was someone asking if he could do it again or something.
There was someone on I Shouldn’t Be Alive who was adrift at sea for months. Said that eventually from the fish he was catching he started to crave the offal and eyes more than the meat.
His body was getting him to eat iodine through craving those things. Truly amazing what the body can do.
And eggs are by definition nutritious. They are the supplies for a growing animal, and you are made out of roughly the same things. Getting some good nutrition when you are starving is very satisfying. Just don’t overdo it. Refeeding syndrome is not at all fun, 0/10, do not recommend.
I don’t know if that’s completely accurate. I’ve seen plenty of episodes of Alone, and in the ones where people are starving it’s a mixed bag. Yeah, sometimes the food is ambrosia for them but sometimes they still think it’s vile.
The Trinity Mountains are brutal terrain even today. Surviving that long after the crash and still not being found is heartbreaking, but it really highlights how limited search-and-rescue capabilities were back then.
They didn’t crash on THEIR flight path, they were way off course. They just happened to be under a different flight path but couldn’t signal the planes.
There is a small-ish plane (Cessna 210) with 5 people somewhere in Barrington tops a bit north of Sydney that has been missing since 1981. Amazing they still haven’t found it yet, it’s not that remote.
I don't think, and this is entirely from my ass, a Cessna could actually go that fast.
I'm just basing that off the fact that every single small plane wreck I've seen, even ones where everyone died on impact, the majority of the plane is still intact. I'm pretty sure the only thing that would change that would be packing the back with explosives or something.
I imagine it would be very hard to set the woods on fire in this particular case, though. They crashed in early March in the mountains of the California Coast Range. The trees would have been all covered in snow. Everything would have been wet or frozen.
book 'Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue" by Ross Nixon. A very good book about a terrible story. The three passengers survived the crash in the mountains, but the pilot died a few days later trying to walk out in deep snow, and his wife and his step-daughter Carla, both injured but able to get water from a creek, slowly starved to death over about two months.
People reading this from outside the US do not really understand how big and how empty the US really is. Eight miles in the mountains may be the “straight line” distance but the walking distance can be 3-5x that easily, and then only if there are ways to access a path. Bushwhacking in the mountains is disorienting and usually futile without clear and unobstructed landmarks as a guide.
Brutal. Reading Hatchet, I’d have imagined that being stranded alone in the wilderness would be the most terrible scenario. But hanging onto life and watching your family die of starvation might far be worse.
Hatchet. Read it once as a 10 year old, remember it for life.
Brian’s Winter is great too, the sequel to Hatchet, ‘what if’ he didn’t get rescued and had to survive on the lake for the winter.
I remember there was a sequel but didn't know it was a what if, I thought he just had really bad luck, or it was someone asking if he could do it again or something.
That's the other book "the river." LOL.
Life pro tip dont ever go camping with that guy.
It’s technically the 3rd sequel, after The River, but in terms of chronology in Brian’s story, it second behind Hatchet.
You remember the scene where he swam down to the plane and found the pilot?
I'm 41 years old, read that scene 30 or so years ago, and feel that I can remember the scene perfectly. That book has never left my memory.
Yup. That one descriptive story stays with you for life.
My 4th grade class watched the movie after finishing the book and that scene traumatized the crap outta ma.
There's a movie?
Edit: Ned-fucking-Beatry as the pilot who dies right away? Wild.
And boy does he squeal like a little piggy.
I do now
Could never forget it. That scene and the stupid birds.
I’ll spend my life wondering if raw turtle eggs are really as good as he made them seem
Sea turtle eggs apparently are which is why protecting them from poachers is such a huge issue.
When you are starving, strange food can become delicious. Especially when you haven't eaten sugar and other crap that is in modern foods.
There was someone on I Shouldn’t Be Alive who was adrift at sea for months. Said that eventually from the fish he was catching he started to crave the offal and eyes more than the meat.
His body was getting him to eat iodine through craving those things. Truly amazing what the body can do.
And eggs are by definition nutritious. They are the supplies for a growing animal, and you are made out of roughly the same things. Getting some good nutrition when you are starving is very satisfying. Just don’t overdo it. Refeeding syndrome is not at all fun, 0/10, do not recommend.
I don’t know if that’s completely accurate. I’ve seen plenty of episodes of Alone, and in the ones where people are starving it’s a mixed bag. Yeah, sometimes the food is ambrosia for them but sometimes they still think it’s vile.
Remember the book weasel?
The Trinity Mountains are brutal terrain even today. Surviving that long after the crash and still not being found is heartbreaking, but it really highlights how limited search-and-rescue capabilities were back then.
Still it's surprising they weren't found considering they crashed on the flight path
They didn’t crash on THEIR flight path, they were way off course. They just happened to be under a different flight path but couldn’t signal the planes.
There is a small-ish plane (Cessna 210) with 5 people somewhere in Barrington tops a bit north of Sydney that has been missing since 1981. Amazing they still haven’t found it yet, it’s not that remote.
When Steve Fossett went missing they conducted a massive search for him and found 3 other plane crashes that hadn't been previously mapped.
If it hit the ground hard enough it's probably a series of tiny bits that have since been covered.
Or maybe they're still awaiting rescue.
They probably have a nice cabin and a garden by now
And monkey butlers?
Like those Japanese holdouts from WW2.
I don't think, and this is entirely from my ass, a Cessna could actually go that fast.
I'm just basing that off the fact that every single small plane wreck I've seen, even ones where everyone died on impact, the majority of the plane is still intact. I'm pretty sure the only thing that would change that would be packing the back with explosives or something.
If they were nose down they can come in pretty hot
If you are ever lost in the woods just set the woods on fire 🤷♂️
"If you ever get lost in the woods, fuck it, build a house. I was lost, but now I live here. I have severely improved my predicament." -Mitch Hedberg
I imagine it would be very hard to set the woods on fire in this particular case, though. They crashed in early March in the mountains of the California Coast Range. The trees would have been all covered in snow. Everything would have been wet or frozen.
You just have to add the extra step of setting all the snow on fire first. Then you can get to the trees 🌳
It’s a lot more metal to die in a fire than starvation, so I gotta say I agree.
They made cards out of the seat fabric, to pass the time. Absolutely brutal to wait for death that long.
That title is so gory had it been a movie I wouldn't watch it.
book 'Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue" by Ross Nixon. A very good book about a terrible story. The three passengers survived the crash in the mountains, but the pilot died a few days later trying to walk out in deep snow, and his wife and his step-daughter Carla, both injured but able to get water from a creek, slowly starved to death over about two months.
People reading this from outside the US do not really understand how big and how empty the US really is. Eight miles in the mountains may be the “straight line” distance but the walking distance can be 3-5x that easily, and then only if there are ways to access a path. Bushwhacking in the mountains is disorienting and usually futile without clear and unobstructed landmarks as a guide.
Add in probably 3 feet of snow everywhere. They crashed in early March so all of the winter’s accumulated snowpack would still be present.
I never leave the house without my emergency bacon locator.
Everyone needs an emergency bacon locator. If you have no bacon, it's always an emergency
Plot twist. Even though ELTs are mandatory they still fail to activate on a regular basis.
And go off by accident!
Crash in CA mountains? Set a wheel on fire. That black smoke will be readily visible, and CA authorities know better than to let a mountain fire burn.
so sad
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The article explained that they kept a diary after the crash.
Injuries healing, probably a shelter built and other such things
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That is AI arsegravy. You should feel ashamed.
Sloppy
That literally a word-for-word AI copy of this video...
Much better video!
You should post this farther up, since the comment with the AI slop video link was deleted, and most won't see your video.