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

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Podcast: [The CRUX: True Survival Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crux-true-survival-stories-2136323)
Published: 2026-03-30T11:00:00+00:00
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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.

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