Arctic Peril | Battling Winter After a Plane Crash in Alaska
Arctic Peril | Battling Winter After a Plane Crash in Alaska
In 1943, pilot Leon Crane and 4 other men flew over a desolate expanse of Alaska during what was meant to be a routine test flight. They were ascending toward 25,000 feet when one of the engines malfunctioned and failed. Putting on his parachute, he jumped from the plane. Crane touched down, shouting out to his crewmates yields only silence. The fire and smoke were visible from 2 miles away. The last check-in with the base had been over an hour earlier, and they had journeyed far beyond that position by the time of the crash. Neither he nor the Army knew where he was. He digs in for the night and starts a fire, warming his hands and gaining a fighting chance until rescue arrives. The lingering question remains: how long will that be? Leon Crane was forced to attempt a trek in the Alaskan Wilderness in the middle of winter to safety.
0:00 Introduction
0:43 The Alaskan Wilderness
2:36 Leon Crane & the Doomed Flight of the Iceberg Inez
7:18 Stranded in Alaska
13:46 Saftey in a Hunting Cabin
20:06 The Long Trek to Woodchopper, Alaska
24:30 Civilization and the Return to Base
26:20 The Aftermath
28:13 Conclusion/Survival Tips
Music by Scott Buckley “Omega”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4knLuufQo54&t=27s
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Someone posted this same documentary about 6 wks ago. Magnificent story
Went from horrid survival to a great cabin vacay ! Sweet !
I read the book years ago. Great story.
Amazing story of survival. Crane is truly skilled, blessed and lucky.
With your commentary. You try to be too poetic.
I am late to the game.. I have a stupid feber, I love this video it renminds me of my own mountain that I can not climb. I HATE having a fever, i promise i will be better next week, so I can give u a better rewiew?? Also glad påsk 😊❤❤🎉
Staying in the cabin is always the best option, impatience almost always gets you killed.
A survival tactic usually never mentioned in most of these stories is…. Make yourself some Snow Shoes 😊. The Finnish soldiers were able to defend their Homeland successfully by using them to get away from the Natzies in every situation where they were employing gorilla warfare tactics 😀 😄 😊 The Natzies simply couldn’t pursue them ; getting bogged down in the snow. Shiza 😢
Amazing story.. they don’t make them like they used too..
Great channel. Thank you for your work. I have been intrigued by people’s determination,quest for adventure and sadly mistakes/poor decision making
7 (seven) days without Food………NOWAY…….
The story was published in the book 81 Days Below Zero.
That log cabin must have felt like a lottery win in such perilous times. He was totally going to die without it. I’m glad he kept stable and rational throughout it all.
Awesome story of survival and so lucky to have found a gold mine it’s unbelievable smh WOW dude smh 👍🙏
Talk about a life saver, I personally would’ve stayed there until summer. I could of lived in that cabin for years if need be.
WW2 side mission
Amazing survival story
i subscribed
Another incredible episode as always, thank you kindly 🙏
Sooooo, slow, skipped, skipped and the gave up.
Umm at 12.15 that footage was taken from an I survived type of program about a man who tries to climb a mountain in a European country breaking his leg and pelvis having to find people,.
What an amazing story ❤
The writer of this story rival’s edger a poe
I’m as moved by Leon’s humility as his courage and fortitude. What a generation.
For all her flaws, America had a light once: hoping our republic survives the jack boots from within.
Paz y luz 💫
❤❤❤😊
Amazing incredible makes a great movie
This would make a great movie. What an adventure!
Bet he wished he had a Zippo.
Wouldn’t it have been safer for him if he had stayed at the cabin until the ice had thawed?
Great story and commentary.
I cannot believe the tenacity of this brave man although never going through anything like this I was stationed at malstrom AFB in Montana and while escorting a missile maintenance team our maintenance truck broke down. We had a wind chill of 60 degrees below 0. We were our there 6 hours before they could get to us. I’ve never been that cold in all my life. We were fortunate.
What an amazing story of survival. As much of a bad-ass I believe I am ,I don’t think I would last more than a week and that’s being very optimistic lol.
I use to be a hard core snowboarder in my late teens and early 20’s. While traversing a somewhat off trail tree run I fell into a tree well. I was buried up to my chin in light powdery snow, it was almost suffocating, and I kept sinking! I could see skiers and snowboarders less than a 100 yards away from me passing me by on a groomed trail, but they could not hear my cries for help. Some how I was able to take my snowboard off and manage to get myself out of the tree well. By the time I was able to get myself back to the groomed trail… I was exhausted! One of the scariest things I’ve ever encountered.
Excellent story. Excellent reading of the story. I’m a truck driver. I really enjoyed this. As I drove the miles away,
Now I know how Ames, Iowa got it’s name.
So glad I live in sunny and warm St. Petersburg, Fl.
This is a testimony concerning how our Lord Jesus will never leave or forsake you if you believe that His grace is sufficient. I understand that all stories don’t turn out like this. However we have to acknowledge that divine intervention is the cause of many survival situations. May God continue to show us that He is in control. 🙏
Leaving a safe cabin in Alaska during the winter qualified this guy for a Darwin Award. There’s a fine line between a hero and a fool.
"All did was walk ."
…for months ! 😮
Insane !! 😓/ 💯💪
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant! And a sure Subscribe! 👍
Would love to see this as a movie and keeping to the script.
I’ve been there twice it’s an amazing place both times in August let alone winter ! What a stud !!
When he lands I thought polar bears 🇨🇦🍁😳
I wonder if Phil had to make the same journey down river when he arrived back at his cabin to find it empty 🤔
Im offended at his toxic masculine independence, he should have awaited rescue from a bitter purple haired feminist.
Amazing story of this young pilot soldier surviving all those months in the Alaska wilderness by his knowledge of what to do and finding shelter & food finnally making it to people who helped. God was watching over him glad he had a good life after all this having a family.
Phenomenal story, just incredible fortune and I believe God was watching over him.
I’m just passed halfway into to video,so i don’t know the outcome of this. But i just wish to say that no way would i ever have moved away from that cabin that had everything that he needed. I would have only attempted to leave it in the springtime. Now to watch the rest of it.
“81 Days Below Zero” is the book.
4 things saved this man’s life.
•pocket trash (tinder)
•Scout knife
•2 boxes of matches
•Alaskan traditions of men provisioning men who are lost via hunting cabins.
The book is top shelf survival nonfiction
What a survivor and went back to work, business as usual. Greatest generation!!!