60 Feet Away: How a 19-Year-Old Stopped a Grizzly Attack With His Bare Hands | E 243
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 | E 242
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 | 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 Jun 35min
9 Days Stranded in the Nevada Wilderness; The Wrong Turn That Took a Life | E240
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
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 Mai 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 Mai 41min
