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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 44min
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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 41min
Frozen in Time: Solving the Dyatlov Pass Mystery with Science | Disaster Strikes E 233
In February 1959, nine skilled winter hikers vanished in Russia's Ural Mountains during what should have been a routine expedition. When rescuers found their tent weeks later, it had been slashed open...
7 Mai 42min
