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  2. Hugh Glass - Wikipedia

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    Hugh Glass ( c. 1783 – 1833) [1] [2] [3] was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer. He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness after being left for dead by companions when he was mauled by a grizzly bear . No records exist regarding his origins but he is widely said to have been born in ...

  3. Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea - Wikipedia

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    Callahan's story also featured on an episode of British survival expert Ray Mears's television series Extreme Survival. See also. Dougal Robertson, Scottish author and sailor who, with his family, survived being adrift at sea after their schooner was holed by killer whales in 1972.

  4. Juliane Koepcke - Wikipedia

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    Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke /Joo-lia-nay, KOP-kay/ (born 10 October 1954), also known by her married name Juliane Diller, is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, she became famous at the age of 17 as the sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 plane crash ...

  5. Man in the Wilderness - Wikipedia

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    Man in the Wilderness. Man in the Wilderness is a 1971 American revisionist Western film about a scout for a group of mountain men who are traversing the Northwestern United States during the 1820s. The scout is mauled by a bear and left to die by his companions. He survives and recuperates sufficiently to track his former comrades, forcing a ...

  6. Hatchet (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Hatchet is a 1987 Newbery Honor -winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. [1] It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series. Other novels in the series include The River (1991), Brian's Winter (1996), Brian's Return (1999) and Brian's Hunt (2003). [2] It was first published in September 1987 ...

  7. Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story - Wikipedia

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    Snowbound is based on a true story. Jim and Jennifer Stolpa and their infant son Clayton are 500 miles from their home in Castro Valley, California, when they lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow near the ghost town of Vya, Nevada, east of Cedarville, California. They battle for survival against the elements ...

  8. Steven Callahan - Wikipedia

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    California. Nationality. American. Occupation (s) Author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor. Known for. Surviving for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean; Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea. Steven Callahan (born 6 February 1952) is an American author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor. In 1981, he survived for 76 days adrift on the ...

  9. Richard Proenneke - Wikipedia

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    Richard Proenneke. Richard Louis Proenneke ( / ˈprɛnəkiː /; May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was an American self-educated naturalist, conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer who, from the age of about 51, lived alone for nearly thirty years (1968–1998) in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near ...

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