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🗓️ 6 August 2024
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Woniya Dawn Thibeault, winner of Alone: Frozen, author of Never Alone: A Solo Arctic Survival Journey
In 2019, primitive skills instructor and master hide-tanner Woniya Dawn Thibeault was selected for the Alone Season Six challenge. She and nine other contestants were dropped off along the East Arm of the Great Slave Lake, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, in late fall, with the arctic winter closing in. It was a grim and unforgiving landscape unlike anything she’d ever encountered or even imagined. Her life there became a slow-moving race with starvation and brutal cold, fishing, eating grubs and running snares, perfecting her shelter and learning, learning, to listen to the earth for whatever it might offer her. Thibeault survived 73 days, becoming the second-to-last contestant, drawing on every reserve of tenacity and skill to meet the challenges of each day. Gaunt, near physical collapse and fifty pounds lighter, she tapped out and returned home to California. Her convalescence took months, and she re-entered her life an entirely changed person.
And then she did it again.
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0:00.0 | Yeah, and that took some doing, that took decades of serious effort in order to do and it's part of why throughout both my alone journeys I thought this is so |
0:15.2 | important for someone like me to be on television doing this so all of those young |
0:19.7 | girls who were like I was get to see that this is possible rather than getting the idea |
0:25.4 | that it isn't possible like I really grew up with. We owe our existence, we owe |
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0:37.0 | water molecules happen to crystallize in such a way that they become bigger and therefore lighter when they turn solid. |
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0:54.8 | is when they are pine-loblolly pine trees for a million miles. |
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