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The Struggle For Survival In Derek Holtzer's Plane
A man named Derek Holtzer, who is a government survival school psychologist, comes to ask Brian Robeson; a teenager who managed to be the only survivor in a plane crash and survive in the Canadian wilderness for 54 days with only a hatchet, for a favor. He asks for Brian to survive in the wilderness all over again, except this time he will have Derek with him so the government can learn how to actually survive if you are stranded or in trouble. Brian and the rest of his family eventually agree so they begin the preparations.

Once all the preparations are complete Derek and Brian set off on a plane to a lake not far from the lake at where brian originally survived. Derek had brought just about “everything but the kitchen sink,” but brian refused
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