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On March 24, 1963, a Canadian bush pilot flying near the Yukon-BC border spotted a plume of smoke coming from an area where nobody lived. He thought it might be a campfire made by fur trappers, but on his return he decided to look at it more closely. As he flew over, he saw a reflection from a coffee tin being waved by someone, and a large ‘SOS’ stamped out in the snow.… Read the rest “fasting and starving”