Amazing Native Women

The Inuit Woman Who Survived the Arctic Alone

Outside Magazine OnlineBadass Women Chronicles
Kate Siber | 1.18.2018


Ada Blackjack had no wilderness skills before she was forced to fend for herself on a remote Arctic island—and outlived four male explorers.

Except for the polar bears, a corpse, and a small house cat named Vic, Ada Blackjack found herself alone on Wrangel Island in late June 1923. Nearly two years had passed since a schooner dropped her off with four young white explorers who intended to claim the Arctic isle for the British.

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