Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska

A guy and his friend try an ambitious winter hike around Denali in the 1980’s and only survive multiple near death experiences thanks to help from above.

A pair of Alaskan women show off their courage and strength fending off a bear while helping to rescue a pair of men while dip netting and another Alaskan woman toughs her way through an unconventional birthing experience.

Hailey McCaig learns what a huge pain it is to have to babysit someone on a back country canoe trip when her and her friend wrap their canoe around a huge boulder.

A pair of Alaskans escape from a burning airplane only to have to walk miles in frigid temperatures to get rescued and a teenager nearly dies from hypothermia when he decides to take a very dangerous nap under a tree.

Alaskans try to prank each other and sometimes it backfires…literally.

Alaskan have epic bad days at work, from a theatrical disaster to a hilarious bear encounter.

One man learns what it’s like to run with the pack and a woman has to deal with an uninvited house guest.

Alaskans run from polar bears…and their own pasts.

Alaskans rescuing Alaskans, sometimes with great skill and ingenuity, and sometimes not…

An Army veteran gets hopelessly lost in the woods.

Guy Schroder survives the sinking of the Katmai fishing vessel.

Alaskans go out of their way to try to make a difference for kids.

One Alaskan man gets auctioned off to a crowd of blood thirsty women and another man decides the best way out of a tough wilderness situation is to get naked.

An unspoken epidemic is affecting countless curious children on the icy school playgrounds of Fairbanks.

Turns out kids actually do get their tongues stuck to metal in winter. Host Rob Prince investigates and tries it out for himself.