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StoryCorps

100% My Fault

StoryCorps

NPR

Society & Culture

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Two friends went on a ski trip that went incredibly, horribly wrong. Almost a decade later, they came to StoryCorps to finally talk about it.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Dave Isay founder of StoryCorps. This message comes from Subaru. The 2025 Subaru Outback

0:06.6

features standard symmetrical all-wheel drive, including safety features like standard eyesight

0:11.5

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0:18.6

Hey folks, this is Max Young-Rice, and believe it or not, the way we found this week's story

0:23.1

is that one of the people in it called us and told us about it.

0:26.4

So if you have something that you'd like to share, you should call our voicemail line.

0:29.8

And this week's question is, what's the craziest thing you've ever done for a friend?

0:34.3

Tell us your story and a message at 702-706 talk. That's 702-706, T-A-L-K.

0:46.3

In December 2016, longtime friends Alex Lewis and Matt Koch hiked into a mountain pass in Colorado for a backcountry ski trip.

0:57.3

This wasn't a casual thing.

0:59.0

They would be in the mountains for days, miles away from the nearest town.

1:03.2

We got to the trailhead and it was snowing fairly constantly in a decent wind.

1:09.5

We had the feeling of feeling small

1:11.1

because you're in these big mountains,

1:13.2

but you couldn't even really see much of them

1:16.3

because of the snow.

1:18.4

Alex and Matt were pretty serious outdoorsy guys,

1:21.7

and this is exactly the kind of adventure

1:23.6

that their friendship was built on,

1:25.3

camping, hiking,

1:27.0

but they hadn't been able to do anything like that in a while.

1:30.9

The year before, Matt had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma.

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