Ada Alone
5/12/20261 hr 8 min
When five explorers are abandoned on a frozen island, with ever-dwindling food and supplies, they try to arrange their own rescue by dogsledding across the frozen Arctic Ocean. Twenty-three-year-old seamstress Ada Blackjack is left completely alone--with no idea when, or if, she'll escape.
Featuring guest Sarah Marshall of You’re Wrong About.
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First 90 secondsSarah Marshall· Guest0:00
Men are like chickens, you know? They really like to hide grievous injuries for a long time.
Blair Braverman· Host0:05
[gentle music] Welcome back to this brand-new podcast, What To Carry, What To Burn. I'm your host, Blair Braverman, and I'm going to be telling incredible true stories of survival. This episode is part two, the conclusion of Ada Blackjack's story. If you haven't heard part one, go back to the previous episode, the first episode of this podcast, and listen to that first. If you've already listened, welcome back. We're gonna jump right in. [gentle music] When we left off in the last episode, the sun had just risen for our friends on Wrangel Island. Ada's doing well. The guys are happy. They've made it through the dark part of winter. They're counting down until summer when the ship is gonna come. The best part of this time for Ada is that she and Gal are becoming really good friends.
Sarah Marshall· Guest1:06
Now, which one is Gal? Yeah.
Blair Braverman· Host1:08
Gal is the youngest one there. He's the n- the 19-year-old. He's not even getting paid. He hasn't even turned 20 yet.
Sarah Marshall· Guest1:15
Oh, boy.
Blair Braverman· Host1:15
He just wants to eat candy. He's, like, eating his 26 boxes of candy up in the high Arctic.
Sarah Marshall· Guest1:20
He's a teen Arctic explorer.
Blair Braverman· Host1:21
Yeah, he's, like, so nice, and he's so earnest, and he just wants to learn. And so he comes up to Ada, and he says, "Will you teach me Inupiat?"