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Nineteen Days in the Idaho Wilderness: They Did What They Had to Do | E 225

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The CRUX: True Survival Stories

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Mar 30, 2026

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1912

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Summary

On May 5th, 1979, a small plane carrying four people from a small Canadian city went down in the mountains of central Idaho. What followed was nineteen days of survival that pushed two ordinary young people to the absolute edge of what a human being can endure — and beyond.