Robert Hansen was a successful Anchorage businessman and a skilled hunter.
Most of us are familiar with reality TV shows where people are isolated in remote locations around the world to test and demonstrate their skills, stamina and endurance required to overcome the obstacles presented by mother nature. Extreme temperatures, exposure, hunger, dehydration, and exhaustion, not to mention threats from native wildlife, all pose additional complications. But what happens when you’re stranded and don’t have that experience and those survival skills? No idea how far away you are from the closest town? No way of knowing when – or if – you’ll be rescued? And what if, stranded in the middle of nowhere, the movement of a person you could suddenly hear as they made their way through the trees towards you, belonged to someone who wasn’t coming to help you – but to hunt you?
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