181 Miles in the Wrong Direction: Lost in the Sahara | E 241
In April 1994, Mauro Prosperi—a 38-year-old Olympic pentathlete and Italian police officer from Rome—entered the Marathon des Sables, a 156-mile ultramarathon across the Moroccan Sahara. He'd trained ...
15 Kesä 35min
9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life | E 240
On March 27, 2022, Ronnie and Beverly Barker were on a road trip they had made a dozen times before — from Oregon, heading south through Nevada toward Tucson, Arizona to meet friends. Their GPS routed...
8 Kesä 31min
The Grossglockner Case That Changed Alpine Law | Disaster Strikes E239
In January 2025, Thomas Plamberger and his girlfriend Kerstin Gurtner set out to climb the Grossglockner — Austria's highest peak — on a technical winter route they had planned together. What happened...
4 Kesä 32min
Lost Behind Enemy Lines for 2 Weeks: After Taking 30 Meth Pills | E238
Hosts Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen recount Finnish corporal Aimo Koivunen’s March 18, 1944 ordeal during the Continuation War: leading a seven-man long-range ski reconnaissance patrol in Sovie...
1 Kesä 44min
Frozen Solid at 3 Years Old: The Christmas Eve Miracle That Stumped Medicine | E 237
When three-year-old Brittany Eichelberger slipped out of her family's trailer in Elkins, West Virginia on Christmas Eve 1990, no one knew she was gone. She was found hours later, clinically dead in th...
25 Touko 27min
O Circuit Tragedy: 120 MPH | Disaster Strikes E236
In this Disaster Strikes segment of the Crux podcast, host Kaycee McIntosh recounts the November 17, 2025 tragedy on Torres del Paine’s O Circuit at John Garner Pass, where a forecasted cyclone hit hu...
21 Touko 41min
30 Seconds to Escape: The Sinking of the Cynthia Woods | E235
Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen recount the June 2008 Regatta de Amigos disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, when the 38-foot racing sailboat Cynthia Woods lost its keel, punched a hole in the hull, a...
18 Touko 32min
42 Years in Siberia: The Family That Vanished From the World | E234
In 1936, a Russian man named Karp Lykov watched a Soviet patrol shoot his brother dead in a field — and in that moment, he made a decision. He gathered his wife and two young children, packed seeds an...
11 Touko 41min
