[Milsurplus] "81 Days Below Zero"

[Gene Smar]

Reminds me of a book the nuns read to us in elementary school: Lost on a Mountain in Maine  about a 12 yo Donn Fendler who spent 9 days in 1939 wandering Mount Katahdin after he got separated from his family during a storm. Certainly not as challenging as Crane's ordeal but fascinating to us youngsters at the time.
73 de Gene Smar AD3F 

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  On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 10:27 PM, Hubert Miller<Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:    
I always enjoy survival stories, maybe because i tend to wonder if i could have survived deadly circumstances, and i just finished a good one.
This is “81 Days Below Zero”, by Brian Murphy, 2015. A B-24 copilot, Leon Crane, was the only survivor of a B-24 crash during flight out of
 
Ladd AFB. The radio op didn’t have time to radio position, and the plane was not found by searchers. Crane survived initially by the pure
 
luck of carrying extra matches with him, and then finding a trapper’s cache in a cabin with food stock and a .22 rifle. He headed out, following
 
the Charley river south. Days were from minus 10 to minus 30 degrees, sometimes worse during storms. He fell through the river ice twice. On
 
day 81 he encountered a cabin and the trapper family living there. 120 miles walked, every day well below zero temps, and some days no progress
 
due to storms or accident. I somehow don’t think i would have made it. Anyway i really recommend this book, if you like this kind of thing, or maybe
 
just take a look at the Wiki story here:
 
  
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Crane
 
  
 
-Hue Miller ( who has no insulation to spare and likes to stay warm. )
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