{"id":12757,"date":"2026-05-12T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=12757"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:03:27","slug":"this-new-podcast-is-the-survival-obsession-youve-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=12757","title":{"rendered":"This New Podcast Is the Survival Obsession You&#8217;ve Been Waiting For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"justify-start\">\n<nav class=\"align-left col-span-full mb-base\" data-pom-e2e-test-id=\"breadcrumbs\"\/>\n<p>A new wilderness podcast from adventurer Blair Braverman explores epic stories of endurance and perseverance to find practical lessons on courage, fear, and human resilience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<p class=\"fp-leadCaption py-tight text-left font-utility text-utility3-size leading-utility3-line-height text-secondary\">Blair Braverman dogsledding<!-- --> (Photo: Nathaniel Wilder)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>Published May 12, 2026 03:08AM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On May 12, Blair Braverman, a longtime columnist for <em>Outside<\/em>, launched a new podcast, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/what-to-carry-what-to-burn\/id1896260781\"><i>What to Carry, What to Burn<\/i><\/a>, that explores what we can learn from epic survival tales about overcoming adversity\u2014in the wilderness and in daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Braverman is no stranger to survival. As a long-distance dogsledder, she\u2019s spent days and sometimes weeks alone with her dogs in the frozen wilderness. Both her memoir, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" rel=\"noopener\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/welcome-to-the-goddamn-ice-cube-blair-braverman\"><i>Welcome to the God Damn Ice Cube<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i>and her novel, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" rel=\"noopener\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/small-game-blair-braverman\"><i>Small Game<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i>touch on themes of survival. And she appeared on the show <i>Naked and Afraid <\/i>in 2018.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2740964\" class=\"pom-image-wrap photo-aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"blair and her team of dogs\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1350\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2740964\" style=\"color:transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/blair-and-dogs.jpg?width=3840&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75&amp;fit=cover 1x\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/blair-and-dogs.jpg?width=3840&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=75&amp;fit=cover\"\/><figcaption class=\"pom-caption\"><span class=\"article__caption\">Blair Braverman dogsledding<\/span> (Photo: Chrissie Bodznick)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always loved survival stories. As a kid, my copy of <i>Hatchet<\/i> was falling apart from the number of times I read it in my treehouse,\u201d Braverman says.<\/p>\n<p>For years, Braverman has appeared on the podcast <i>You\u2019re Wrong About <\/i>as the survival correspondent. On it, she tells host Sarah Marshall wilderness stories, like about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/flight-571-survival-in-the-andes-with-blair-braverman\/id1380008439?i=1000584554361\">Flight 571<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/balto-with-blair-braverman\/id1380008439?i=1000648005142\">Balto<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/chris-mccandless-with-blair-braverman\/id1380008439?i=1000601953095\">Chris McCandless<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve loved doing that so much that I\u2019ve been thinking, for a while, of making a similar podcast of my own,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p><i>What to Carry, What to Burn <\/i>dedicates its episode to different true survival stories. It first tells the historic tale of Ada Blackjack, who went on an Arctic expedition in the early 1900s as a 23-year-old seamstress and ended up completely alone on a frozen island, trying to survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal is to tell the kinds of stories that make people drive around the block for an extra half-hour because they don\u2019t want to stop listening, and then call their friend because they can\u2019t wait to talk it through,\u201d says Braverman. \u201cI think that in order for survival stories to resonate deeply like that, they can\u2019t just focus on sensational details; they have to be told in a way that\u2019s kind, emotional, and human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Braverman says she\u2019s enjoyed diving deep into the research for her new podcast. She doesn\u2019t want <i>What to Carry, What to Burn <\/i>to focus only on the big questions like what they ate, how they were injured, and whether they survived. Instead, she wants listeners to really feel what it was like: the sounds, smells, and tastes of survival.<\/p>\n<p>And most of all, she wants the stories in her new podcast to inspire people to tackle their own challenges. \u201cSurvival isn\u2019t just something that happens on glaciers and desert islands,\u201d says Braverman. \u201cBut when we learn about how people handle that kind of extreme, impossible-seeming situation, it can give us courage in our own lives, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What to Carry, What to Burn\u00a0<\/em>launched on May 12. You can subscribe and listen on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4L7FCFQLcmG2NwPw7ayE1D?si=d2515b36106241bf\">Spotify<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/what-to-carry-what-to-burn\/id1896260781\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCksDcQGJy2NJL9Vgp7KZkzQ\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/culture\/books-media\/what-to-carry-what-to-burn-podcast\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new wilderness podcast from adventurer Blair Braverman explores epic stories of endurance and perseverance to find practical lessons on courage, fear, and human resilience. 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