# Frozen and Forgotten: Leon Crane's 120-Mile Walk Through Arctic Alaska | E213

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Podcast: [The CRUX: True Survival Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crux-true-survival-stories-2136323)
Published: 2026-02-02T10:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode of The Crux True Survival Stories, hosts Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen recount the harrowing experience of Leon Crane, a 24-year-old co-pilot who survived 84 days in the Alaskan wilderness after his B-24 Liberator plane crashed in December 1943. With no food, no map, and no wilderness experience, the 24-year-old city kid from Philadelphia somehow survived 84 days in the Arctic and walked 120 miles to safety.

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