An Unbelievable Story About Survival

See the man. His beard hangs with ice. He reeks of smoke and burnt plastic. He stokes the dying fire. Around him in the gloom smolders what he’d known and cherished and what that fire turns now to ash: his cabin, his home, his dream of living quietly here in the Alaskan wild. His dog is nowhere to be found. He rises, stumbling forth for more wood. The snow lies chest high, too deep to travel far. The nearest road is some 45 miles off. His closest neighbor is an abandoned cabin a mile into the bush. It will take him days to cover just a quarter of that distance. If he falls through ice and into streams he will surely freeze and die. Even if he tries, he has no map to know the way.   [View in Browser]( [Esquire]( [SHOP]( EXCLUSIVE [SUBSCRIBE]( Giving a gift card is only lame if you haven't given it any thought. Here are [30 options]( that’ll ensure that's not the case. [Tyson Steele Was Alone and Helpless When His Cabin in Alaska Burned Down. This Is How He Survived.]( [Tyson Steele Was Alone and Helpless When His Cabin in Alaska Burned Down. This Is How He Survived.]( See the man. His beard hangs with ice. He reeks of smoke and burnt plastic. He stokes the dying fire. Around him in the gloom smolders what he’d known and cherished and what that fire turns now to ash: his cabin, his home, his dream of living quietly here in the Alaskan wild. His dog is nowhere to be found. He rises, stumbling forth for more wood. The snow lies chest high, too deep to travel far. The nearest road is some 45 miles off. His closest neighbor is an abandoned cabin a mile into the bush. It will take him days to cover just a quarter of that distance. If he falls through ice and into streams he will surely freeze and die. Even if he tries, he has no map to know the way. [Read More](   [The 7 Best Portable Handheld Gaming Consoles of 2023]( [The 7 Best Portable Handheld Gaming Consoles of 2023]( Long gone is the Game Boy, but these modern devices prove handheld gaming is far from dead. [Read More]( [The Best Documentaries of 2022]( [The Best Documentaries of 2022]( Who received the true story treatment this year? None other than Louis Armstrong, Benjamin Franklin, Willie Mays—and more. [Read More](     [It's Time to Admit That Ethan Hawke Is the Greatest Actor of His Generation]( [It's Time to Admit That Ethan Hawke Is the Greatest Actor of His Generation]( There was a time when it appeared as if Ethan Hawke’s career arc was going to be one that went from playing the fresh-faced youth who must learn about the world’s duplicities and disappointments (Dead Poets Society) to playing the kind of ineffectual slacker whose main purpose onscreen seemed to be to demonstrate what happens when the neck of a Gap t-shirt loses its elasticity (Reality Bites). It was unthinkable to imagine that Hawke would be where he is now, and that is the best American screen actor of his generation. [Read More](   [A$AP Rocky Remains the King of Date-Night Style]( [A$AP Rocky Remains the King of Date-Night Style]( The man can't miss. [Read More]( [The 25 Best Places to Buy Bedding Essentials Online]( [The 25 Best Places to Buy Bedding Essentials Online]( Each store has its own repertoire of comfortable, quality necessities. [Read More](     [A Child's Christmas in Wales]( [A Child's Christmas in Wales]( One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. [Read More](   [ESQ 1933 Jewelry]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Notice/Notice at Collection]( esquire.com ©2022 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019