Poisoned on Everest: The $20 Million Rescue Scam | Disaster Strikes
Most people think the greatest danger on Mount Everest is the mountain itself. But beginning in 2018, investigators uncovered an alleged $20 million Everest helicopter rescue fraud that exploited trek...
16 Jul 36min
Five Hours Overboard in the Pacific
Commercial diver Scott Thompson is harvesting sea urchins off the California coast when a split-second accident leaves him overboard in the Pacific Ocean. With his boat disappearing into the distance,...
13 Jul 42min
He Woke Up Naked Beside a Polar Bear
Danish explorer Peter Freuchen and his family huddled in a Greenland cave to escape a brutal blizzard in the eatly 1900's. The temperature was thirty degrees below zero. They weren't alone—a polar bea...
6 Jul 22min
The Mount Cleveland Five: 188 Days Buried on Glacier National Park's Highest Peak | Disaster Strikes
In late December 1969, five accomplished young mountaineers set out to make history on Glacier National Park's highest peak—a 4,000-foot wall of rock and ice that had never been climbed in winter. The...
2 Jul 35min
He Left the Raft. Lost for 5 Days. Why?
Professional river guide and Eagle Scout Gabriel Vaughn knows Oregon's Illinois River better than most people ever will. But after a disagreement just above the infamous Green Wall rapid, he makes an ...
29 Jun 37min
60 Feet Away: How a 19-Year-Old Stopped a Grizzly Attack With His Bare Hands
On October 15, 2022, four college wrestlers hiked into Wyoming's Shoshone National Forest to hunt for shed antlers. They never saw the grizzly coming. When the bear attacked, one teammate made a split...
22 Jun 33min
500 Yards From Safety: The 1971 Cairngorm Plateau Disaster: Disaster Strikes
On November 22, 1971, RAF rescuers spot a young woman crawling across the Cairngorm Plateau after two nights in a relentless blizzard. With only a few words, she points them toward a group still missi...
18 Jun 36min
181 Miles in the Wrong Direction: Lost in the Sahara
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 Jun 35min
