The Miller Cave Tragedy: 7 Entered, 5 Survived | E 217
February 28, 1987. Miller Cave, Iowa. Five college students, their geology professor Kathy McCluskey, and staff member Mike Price descended 112 feet into a vertical shaft in an Iowa farm field. What s...
23 Feb 48min
Disaster on Franconia Ridge: A White Mountains Survival Story | E216
On February 10, 2008, Fred Frederickson and James Osborne started what should have been a routine winter day hike on New Hampshire's Franconia Ridge. Within hours, conditions changed catastrophically—...
16 Feb 28min
Adirondack Tragedy: The 9-Day Search for Leo Dufour on Allen Mountain | Disaster Strikes | E215
On a snowy Black Friday in November 2024, a 22-year-old experienced hiker from Quebec set out alone to climb one of the most remote peaks in New York's Adirondack Mountains—a challenging 18-mile journ...
12 Feb 25min
Seventy-Two Days: Alive in the Andes | E214
In this unflinching episode of the Crux True Survival Story Podcast, hosts Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen delve into one of history's most harrowing survival stories. On October 13, 1972, Urugua...
9 Feb 41min
Frozen and Forgotten: Leon Crane's 120-Mile Walk Through Arctic Alaska | E213
When a routine test flight goes catastrophically wrong, Army Air Forces Lieutenant Leon Crane parachutes into the Alaskan wilderness in the dead of winter—alone, with no survival gear, and temperature...
2 Feb 49min
Green Boots Cave - The Controversial Mount Everest Death That Shocked the World | Disaster Strikes E212
In this episode of 'Disaster Strikes' on the Crux podcast, host Julie Henningsen delves into the harrowing story of David Sharp, a dedicated mountaineer whose third attempt to summit Mount Everest end...
29 Jan 36min
Crushed Beneath a Boulder | E211
In this episode of the Crux True Survival Stories Podcast, hosts Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen recount the extraordinary tale of Kevin DePaolo, a 26-year-old adventurer from New York who finds ...
26 Jan 31min
Four Days Underwater and in the Dark: The Tony Bullimore Miracle Rescue | E210
When Tony Bullimore's yacht capsized in the violent Southern Ocean during the 1996-97 Vendée Globe race, rescuers feared the worst. The 57-year-old sailor was trapped inside the upturned hull in pitch...
19 Jan 30min
