43 Days Lost in the Himalayan Winter: Trapped Without Food or Fire | E226
On December 22nd, 1991, a 22-year-old medical student from Brisbane crawled under a rock overhang in the Nepalese Himalayas and waited for help. He had a sleeping bag, two chocolate bars, four books, ...
6 Apr 34min
Nineteen Days in the Idaho Wilderness: They Did What They Had to Do | E 225
On the morning of May 5th, 1979, four residents of Estevan, Saskatchewan boarded a small Cessna bound for Boise, Idaho on what was supposed to be a day trip. By that afternoon, the plane was down in a...
30 Mars 31min
The Body Recovery: Fatal Cave Dive at Bushman's Hole | Disaster Strikes E 224
In this episode of the Crux podcast's Disaster Strikes segment, hosts Kaycee McIntosh and Julie Henningsen delve into the harrowing story of Dave Shaw, a technical diver who tragically perished while ...
26 Mars 40min
Trapped in Quicksand: 2 Hours vs. 6 Days | E223
Quicksand isn't a movie prop. It's real, it looks completely normal, and it happened to two men in the past three months — one in a frozen Utah canyon, one in a Florida mud pit. Austin Dirks is an exp...
23 Mars 43min
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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 28min
