# @outdoor_life on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-07-14T17:30:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

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This story “The Alann Steen Story: How I Survived,” appeared in the January 1993 print issue of Outdoor Life. ⁠
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Steen, who served as a U.S. Marine for six years and was briefly deployed during the Cuban Missile Crisis, died from cancer in 2018 at the age of 79. This editor’s note accompanied the original story:⁠
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Held captive in Lebanon, Alann Steen faced the reality of a cold cell and iron chains, the terror of a city exploding with mortar rounds and gunfire. But Steen had known fear before. In 1979, he wrote a story for Outdoor Life about his solo kayaking trip down a river in the Yukon. In the story, “Grizzly In No-Mans Land,” Steen faces a large bear: “Never had I experienced fear as I experienced it that day. Nor had I felt so helpless, cold and alone.” Steen’s words foreshadowed the chilling events that would change his life forever. While a professor at Beirut University in Lebanon, Steen was abducted by terrorists and held captive for five years. After Steen’s release in 1991, [then] Editor-in-Chief Vin Sparano contacted him. Over the phone, Steen described the strength he found in remembering his times outdoors.⁠
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#Marine #USMarine #cubanmissilecrisis #hunting #captive #huntingseason #huntingtrip #outdoors #outdoorlife⁠
Illustration by: Larry Winbor⁠
Story by:  Alann B. Steen

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