Fourteen Days Down Under: The Beaconsfield Mine Rescue That Captivated the World | E222
When a 2.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Beaconsfield Gold Mine in Tasmania on ANZAC Day 2006, seventeen miners were underground. Fourteen walked out. One didn't survive. And two men — Todd Russell ...
16 Mar 33min
The Vanishing at Pendleton Mountain | Disaster Strikes E221
Silver Plume, Colorado — population 130 — became the setting for one of the strangest unsolved disappearances in Rocky Mountain history. In the summer of 1988, sportswriter-turned-novelist Keith Reinh...
12 Mar 28min
100 Foot Fall, Broken Back, No Help: Surviving the Arizona Desert | E220
On May 20, 2016, ICU nurse Amber Kornhorst set out on a solo late-afternoon hike near Cane Beds, Arizona, and climbed a deceptively "sticky" sandstone wall she couldn't safely descend. With no cell se...
9 Mar 30min
30 Minutes Under Ice: The Boy Who Came Back From Death | E219
When the ice cracked beneath Darven Miller's feet on December 13, 1979, it triggered a cascade of events that seemed impossible to survive. The 11-year-old remained trapped under the frozen surface of...
2 Mar 28min
100 Yards from Water | Disaster Strikes E218
On July 17, 2006, 29-year-old Dave Buschow collapsed and died from dehydration less than 100 yards from water during a Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS) course in Utah. Despite showing clear sign...
26 Feb 43min
The Miller Cave Tragedy: 7 Entered, 5 Survived | E217
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
