cover of episode Encore: Donner Party | Snow and Blood | 2

Encore: Donner Party | Snow and Blood | 2

2023/12/26
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The Donner Party, a group of settlers, faces a brutal journey through the Sierra Nevada mountains, struggling with starvation and harsh conditions.

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In November of 1846, an early snowstorm left the Donner Party’s 87 men, women and children trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Freezing and running out of food, they decided to send out a team of men and women on a rescue mission. But soon, the rescuers would find themselves lost and starving, and forced to face the ultimate taboo of the wilderness: whether to eat their fallen comrades to survive.

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