Episode
Life Below Zero: Deadly Tracks
Overview
With the freeze under way, Alaskans scramble to secure their livelihoods. Sue Aikens returns to find a dangerous predator lurking just outside of camp.
Details
- Series
- Life Below Zero
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2016-04-28
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Deadly Tracks is Episode 4 in Season 7 of Life Below Zero. It aired on 2016-04-28. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 3: Falling Apart
Sue makes needed repairs around camp. Jessie collects fish from his fish wheel. Glenn works to haul a moose back to camp. Chip processes and trades pieces of a caribou.
Episode 5: Breaking Through
The Arctic’s late freeze presents unique challenges for Alaskans as they attempt to gather food and resources for survival.
More episodes from this season
Episode 2: Pride and Power
Sue waits on a fuel delivery. Glenn goes on a moose hunt. Jessie revamps his dog lot. The Hailstones begin to build a mobile home.
Episode 6: Shakedown
Repairs, hunting and errands are all on the to-do list as five Alaskans struggle to get through the everyday grind as a long, dark winter looms ahead.
Episode 1: On the Edge
Sue readies her camp for the coming winter. Glenn makes his move from Fairbanks to Chandalar. Jessie revamps his entire dog lot. The Hailstones begin work on a mobile home.
Episode 7: Ghosts of Winter
The looming arrival of dark winter forces Alaskans to tackle various obstacles to ensure a prosperous season.
Episode 8: No Boundaries
In the dead of winter, Alaskans travel into the mountains and across frozen rivers and tundra to obtain resources for survival.
Episode 9: Trapped and Hunted
Though not easy tasks, trapping and hunting are essential activities for Alaskans to get crucial food and fur to survive dark winter.
Episode 10: Winter Kill
Alaskans pursue scarce resources in anticipation of the coming spring and face some unexpected surprises.
Episode 11: Sue Aikens
Sue Aikens has chosen to carve out a life of perilous isolation in the remote artic tundra, overcoming constant challenges to thrive at Kavik River Camp, a remote refueling station on the North Slope of Alaska. Sue reveals her journey to Kavik, starting from a rough childhood and tracing through three marriages and numerous ups and downs, and she shares what it is that draws her to a life of solitude.
Episode 12: Loaded
Sue gets stuck with the loader on the road from Deadhorse to Kavik. Glenn suffers a leg injury on a trek home. Andy kills and processes a lynx. Chip hunts for muskox.
Episode 13: The Hailstones
Chip and Agnes Hailstone struggle to live in the Artic and survive as a family, while passing along the importance of their heritage and native traditions to their children. Chip and Agnes discuss their background and experiences, sharing the struggles they have had living a semi-nomadic subsistence lifestyle while hunting, fishing and gathering to survive in the harsh conditions of Northwest Alaska.