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Woman Goes Missing During Survival Challenge in Dense Forest – Located After 18 Hours ‘in Cold and Rain’

A 36-year-old woman from California, who had been participating in a YouTube outdoor survival competition, was rescued after spending nearly 18 hours alone in a Michigan forest. Authorities confirmed ...
WGBH

‘The Wilderness’ centers often-overlooked joys and struggles of Black millennial women

As author Angela Flournoy entered her 30s, she found herself thinking more and more about friendship: the ways friends enriched her life, the importance of maintaining friendships into adulthood and ...
Outside

How a Mushroom Hunt Became a Survival Test for This 72-Year-Old Woman in the Oregon Wilderness

A 72-year-old woman who became stranded in steep terrain while foraging for mushrooms in rural Oregon was rescued on November 23 after texting 911 for help. A distressed mushroom picker foraging for ...
Los Angeles Times

Boy Scout troop rescues 78-year-old lost in the Sierra without food, water, shelter

Boy Scout Troop 26 rescued a stranded 78-year-old backpacker who had spent a night without food, water or shelter in the Sierra. Douglas Montgomery, an experienced wilderness survivor and former ...
The New York Times

Four Women, Navigating Friendship and Ambition in a World on Fire

In her sweeping second novel, “The Wilderness,” Angela Flournoy inhabits a quartet of shifting perspectives with wit, tenderness and exquisite grace. Credit...Gigi Rose Gray Supported by By Niela Orr ...