Car Stuck Off-Road: Just Like the Movies… (Repeat)
1/1/202655 min
This week, another epic story from the Real Survival Stories archive. We’ll be back as normal, every week, after a short break.
A festive family outing takes one wrong turn… literally. In 2016, the Kleins drive out towards the Grand Canyon. But in the height of winter, just before Christmas, the snowy roads are deserted and the route is unclear. A small slice of misfortune sends their vacation into a tailspin. As mother Karen heads off alone to find help, she has no idea how close she’ll come to never seeing her family again…
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It's 7:00 AM on December the 23rd, 2016, in Kaibab National Forest, Arizona. It's the morning after a blizzard, and the landscape is buried beneath eight inches of snow. The boughs of the evergreens slump beneath heavy drifts. Here and there, saplings peek through the blanket of white. Running through this immense forest is a long, serpentine road, a highway which leads to one of the most famous sites on Earth, the Grand Canyon. Most of the year, traffic hums along its twin lanes, ferrying tourists to and fro from the iconic attraction. But not today. Today, the road is closed for the winter. Repeated severe snowstorms have made it impassable, and visitors are encouraged to seek alternate routes. As a result, this ordinarily busy highway