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
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
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
