What to Carry, What to Burn
Blair Braverman Visit website › True Crime · EN · 16 episodes · latest 2026-11-10 · explicit
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What to Carry, LLC
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When shy George Elson is invited to guide an expedition in Labrador, he thinks it’ll be pretty straightforward: hunt, fish, build fires, get paid. But the expedition is doomed from the start, and he’s left with…
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Two strangers--who couldn't be more different from each other--are trapped together in the frozen wilderness.Sources include:- Hey, I'm Alive! by Helen Klaben and Beth Day- Helen Klaben on To Tell the Truth:…
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When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler loses the trail on a family hike, he has to survive in the Maine wilderness all alone.Sources for this episode include the documentary Finding Donn Fendler; the book Lost on a Mountain…
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When honeymooners Holly and Fitz miss their boat ride out of a Peruvian village, they think they'll be stuck for weeks--until a stranger offers a bold alternative.Sources:Ruthless River by Holly FitzgeraldHolly…
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21-year-old Violet Jessop goes to sea to support her family--and ends up caught in two major maritime disasters.(Spoilers below, in the source list.)Sources for this episode include the book Titanic Survivor: The Newly…
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In 1943, Jan Baalsrud and his friends sneak into northern Norway on a fishing boat to blow up a Nazi air base—but when the Nazis catch them first, Jan ends up barefoot in the snow on an arctic island, trapped and…
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Juliane Koepcke had an unusual childhood, helping her biologist parents with fieldwork in the Amazon. At seventeen, after surviving a two-mile free fall from a broken plane, she has to lean on everything she learned…
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Navigator Valerian Albanov escapes an icebound ship--and ends up the reluctant leader of a desperate trek across the frozen sea. Sources for this book include the book In the Land of the White Death by Valerian Albanov,…
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When shark fisherman José Salvador Alvarenga gets caught in a storm at sea, he thinks he'll be able to ride it out. But the motor breaks in his little boat, and he starts to drift across the Pacific...Sources for this…
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When Lucy Irvine stumbles on an ad in the back of a magazine—an eccentric writer is looking for a “wife” to join him on a tropical island—she thinks she’s found the adventure of a lifetime. But the survival you sign up…
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Publisher details
- Owner
- What to Carry, LLC
- Oldest episode in feed
- 05/2026
- Typical length
- 49 min
- Format
- Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
- Keywords
- survival, outdoors, nonfiction, stories
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