Outside Magazine Between the Lines
09/10.
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CLOCKWISE^FROMTOPLEFT:^EXPLORA;LAURA^GERWIN;^ EXPLORA:^ JOEMORAHAN;^ TIERRA^PATAGONIA“Lost in this festival
of scorn was much
sense of the young
man who journeyed
to the edge of the
world only to die
there. Who was
John Chau? What
was he looking for?
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—ALEX PERRY, PAGE 62Two Survival Truths and a Lie
This fall, Outside Online is launching
a column focused on those occasions
when outdoor adventures go very, very
wrong—something that many of our
thrill-seeking staffers have experienced
firsthand. Or so they claim. When we
polled the masthead for survival tales, we
got a number of questionable anecdotes.
Can you tell which of these is more
imagined than real?Answer: BA. During his first
solo backpacking
trip, reviews editor
Jeremy Rellosa
neglected to stow
his food properly
before going to
sleep, attracting
what he thought
was a menagerie
of wild animals.
“I stayed up all
night clutching
my knife after I
heard howling and
footsteps outside
my tent,” he says.
“Turns out it was
just some foxes.”B. Back when he
was an intern,
marketing director
Sam Moulton
spent a winter
weekend trapped
in Outside’s offices
after accidentally
locking himselfin the basement
gear-storage cage.
“Thankfully, there
were some energy
bars down there,”
he says. “But the
experience left a
mark. Hand me a
Clif Bar today and I
might start crying.”C. Art director
Petra Zeiler’s
winter hut trip
went south when
she almost ran
out of food 19
miles deep in
the backcountry.
“Our stove wasn’t
working properly,
so it was really
hard to heat
water,” she says.
“We pretty much
stayed in our
sleeping bags
for three days to
conserve energy.”:KDW:H·UH:DWFKLQJ
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