3 Hours in the Heat: The Ultramarathoner Who Vanished in Plain Sight | Disaster Strikes E263
Philip Kreycik was 37, a Harvard graduate, an ultramarathoner, and an experienced outdoorsman. On July 10, 2021, he left for a training run at Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park in California, telling his...
10 Sep 21min
15-Year-Old Alone on Kit Carson Peak: A 200-Foot Fall | E262
A 15-year-old hiker set out on an ambitious three-day backpacking trip through Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains, planning to summit four 14ers. He successfully climbed Challenger Point and Kit Ca...
7 Sep 34min
Lost in the Outback for 43 Days: The Man Who Didn't Want to be Found | E261
When tourists found an abandoned bicycle on a remote track in Australia's Great Sandy Desert, it triggered one of the strangest missing person searches in outback history — police, aircraft, and Abori...
31 Aug 36min
The 1967 Denali Disaster: 7 Climbers Trapped Above 19,000 Feet | Disaster Strikes E 260
In July 1967, only 213 people had ever stood on the summit of Denali. When an inexperienced climbing team was denied a permit, the National Park Service made an unusual decision: merge them with a str...
27 Aug 23min
A Four-Hour Float, Three Days Lost | E 259
A summer tubing trip on Michigan’s Muskegon River was supposed to last just four hours. But when two women and a nine-year-old boy failed to return, a massive search and rescue operation began.Boats, ...
24 Aug 46min
119 Days Upside Down; Trapped Inside the Capsized Rose-Noëlle | E258
At 6 AM on June 4, 1989, a wave the skipper estimated at sixty feet flipped the trimaran Rose-Noëlle upside down off New Zealand’s East Cape, trapping four men — a self-taught sailor sleeping aboard e...
17 Aug 36min
Forbidden Island, Certain Death: He Swam to Shore Anyway | Disaster Strikes
John Allen Chau spent years preparing for one mission: reach the Sentinelese — the world's most isolated tribe, on an island India has forbidden outsiders from entering since 1956 — and share the Chri...
13 Aug 34min
15 Hours in a Crevasse: The Denali Rescue That Shouldn't Have Worked
Trauma surgeon Martin Takac came to Alaska to climb Denali, the highest mountain in North America. He reached the summit. The hardest part, it seemed, was behind him. Then, on the descent, the ground ...
10 Aug 42min
