# Ada Blackjack

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POV: You Are Crossing The Most Dangerous Passage On Earth | Sleepy Biographer [bonus]

This episode is from The Sleepy Biographer. If you want to see more, click here and follow The Sleepy Biographer (my other channel). 👋⁠⁠⁠ Support me + get bonus episodes ⁠here on Spotify,⁠⁠ on ⁠Facebook⁠, or ⁠⁠on PatreonTonight, you cross the most dangerous passages on Earth. Twelve times. Ernest …

When You Can't Sleep, Play This Dreamy Arctic Survival Story (Ada Blackjack)

If you're lying awake at 2am feeling like no one is coming, fall asleep to history with Ada Blackjack's survival story for the night no one is coming, the 23-year-old Iñupiaq seamstress dropped on a frozen Arctic island so her sick son could come home. You don't need to have faced wolves or polar …

When You Can't Sleep, Let The Ice Man Show You The Way

If you can't sleep because your chest is tight and your head won't stop, drift off with Wim Hof's breathing method for insomnia, the grieving Dutch father who climbed Everest in shorts after losing his wife to depression in 1995. You don't need to be an athlete to feel it quiet the room. This is t…

For Long Drives: Mountain Man Wisdom The World Forgot (4 hours)

If the city feels too thin tonight and you can't sleep because the day was too loud, drift into Alaskan mountain man wisdom for when you can't sleep, Frank Glaser walking wolves in the early 1900s, Dick Proenneke carving his own cabin hinges at 51. You don't need to live in the wilderness to feel …

When You Can't Sleep, Listen To The Journey Of Ibn Battuta

If you're lying awake at 40 wondering what you're still waiting for, drift off with Ibn Battuta's rule for the life you're afraid to begin, the 21-year-old who left Morocco with no money and no map and came home 29 years later having walked 75,000 miles. You don't need to cross an ocean to feel th…

EP02 | Ada Blackjack: The Woman Wrangel Island Couldn't Kill — Part 1

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In September 1921, a small expedition landed on Wrangel Island—a remote, icebound island in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. There were five people in the party: four young men with dreams of exploration and adventure, and a 23-year-old Iñupiat woman named Ada Blackjack. Ada was not an explorer. …

EP03 | Ada Blackjack: The Woman Wrangel Island Couldn't Kill — Part 2

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When Part 1 ended, Ada Blackjack was alone on Wrangel Island with a desperately ill Lorne Knight. The other three men had disappeared across the frozen sea months earlier, food was running out, and no rescue had come. In Part 2, Ada’s fight for survival becomes something even more extraordinary. Sh…

Season 2 Episode 2: Ada Blackjack & the Wrangel Island Expedition

In 1921, 23-year-old Iñupiaq mother and seamstress Ada Blackjack joined four inexperienced young men on an expedition to Wrangel Island. She wasn’t chasing glory or trying to claim foreign territory—she needed money to bring her sick son home. Nearly two years later, Ada and the expedition cat, Vic…

Empire at the Edge of the World with Giles Milton

In the early 20th century, the Arctic remained one of the last great unexplored regions of the world. When the celebrity explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson sets out to chart its unknown territory, the expedition’s flagship, the Karluk, becomes trapped in the ice, leaving its crew, scientists and Indige…

The Inuit Woman Who Survived the Arctic Alone

Ada Blackjack was an Alaskan Inuit woman who joined an Arctic expedition to Wrangel Island in September 1921. The crew included four men and a cat. Her job was to sew clothing out of animal hides so the men could survive the winter. The team was planning to live off six months’ worth of supplies be…